Note from the editors

Introduction to the volume and the project behind it and short summary of chapters. This publication, resulting from a collaboration between Euromed Feminist Initiative and the University of Padova, builds on the knowledge of academics and advocates, shedding new insights on those challenges. It aims at supporting institutional efforts being made to guarantee women\u2019s participation in the Syrian reconstruction, as well as advocacy initiatives carried out to ensure women\u2019s participation in political and economic decision-making in the country\u2019s future

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This issue of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal is dedicated to indigenous rights in an effort to encourage and proliferate legal scholarship in this important area. The recognition of indigenous rights is especially important to the Pacific Rim considering that the region has a longstanding history of discrimination against indigenous peoples. Though home to remarkable diversity, similar stories of colonization, war, natural disasters, and inter alia, economic, political, cultural, and environmental divisions, have shaped the region. This history provides a distinct vantage point from which to view the continued development of law and policy regarding indigenous rights

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Note from the Editors

The article introduces a series of articles including one by Patrick Bond on the preliminary planning of the World Social Forum (WSF) and another by Michael Guerrero on the 2007 U.S. Social Forum