Human Rights Review This article presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human trafficking in Sudan—a critical source, destination, and transit country. Journal Article
Read MoreHuman Behavior and Emerging Technologies This article explores the correlation between Facebook news exposure, preferring high security levels, and curbing some civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic among youth in the U.S., Spain, and Egypt. Journal Article
Read MoreNOVACT This report shows how both crises, COVID-19, and the environmental emergency, have had a very strong impact on an already precarious situation regarding respect and defense of human rights by public institutions and civil society organizations in Libya. Report
Read MoreInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being This article aims to assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crises on Iraqi and Syrian orphaned children and their mothers. It discusses their struggles across different themes: financial crisis, low educational attainment, child labor, mental health issues, violence, and social problems. Journal…
Read MoreAmerican Political Science Review This article studies the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on ISIS activity in Iraq and argues that these measures are likely to reduce non-state actor violence, especially in urban and non-base areas by depleting actors’ resources, reducing the number of high-value civilian targets, and making it logistically more difficult to conduct…
Read MoreGlobal Knowledge, Memory, and Communication This article investigates how virtual campaigns are affecting voters in the elections of Kuwait, as well as whether such virtual campaigns will replace traditional campaigns in the post-COVID era. Journal Article
Read MoreConflict and Health This article aims to estimate population mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in nine purposively selected urban and rural communities of southern and central Yemen (Aden and Ta’iz governorates), totaling > 100,000 people. Journal Article
Read MoreHealth and Human Rights Journal This article argues that withholding vaccines from Palestinians reveals the ways that Israel furthers its settler-colonial aims under the guise of liberal humanitarianism and economic growth. Instead of directing these conclusions toward Israel as an exceptional case, the authors contend that these processes reveal how settler-colonial societies use liberal frameworks…
Read MoreFrontiers in Public Health This article aims to determine VH (vaccine hesitancy) to COVID-19 vaccination in five conflict zones: Somalia, Yemen, Palestine, Syria, and Afghanistan. Journal Article
Read MoreGlobal Mental Health This article explores how the global evidence on psychosocial interventions for female survivors of conflict-related sexual violence applies to the context of the female Yazidi population in Iraq during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors also explore the impact of COVID-19 on the effectiveness of the interventions. Journal Article
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