Tunisia's legitimacy and constitutional crisis: the Troika has failed

In early July 2013 it looked as if Tunisia might be about to conclude an important first phase in the political transition, with its constituent assembly (Assemblée Nationale Constituante or ANC) preparing to vote on each of the articles in the latest draft of the constitution. Instead, the entire process is now threatened with failure. Since the Egyptian public mobilised against President Mohammed Morsi, leading opposition forces in Tunisia have been questioning the legitimacy of the constituent process. They say the current draft of the constitution is unacceptable, as the ANC's one-year mandate has long since expired. The assassination of opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi has not only caused the government, accused of being complicit in his death, to lose further credibility, it has also escalated the constitutional crisis. Since 25 July, 60 members of parliament have suspended their activity in the ANC. The government's efforts to remedy the situation have proved unsuccessful thus far: For now, the work of the ANC is suspended. (author's abstract

The work of transnational forensic medicine experts in colonised zones:the Palestinian case

This article aims to shed light on the post-mortem practices for Palestinian dead bodies when there is suspicion of human rights violations by Israeli military forces. By focusing on the case of Omran Abu Hamdieh from Al-Khalil (Hebron), the article explores the interactions between Palestinian social-institutional agents, Israeli military forces and international medico-legal agents. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data, the article explores how the intersectionality between the various controlling powers is inscribed over the Palestinian dead bodies and structures their death rites. The article claims that inviting foreign medico-legal experts in the Palestinian context could reveal the true death story and the human rights violations, but also rea rms the sovereignty of the Israeli military forces over the Palestinian dead and lived bodies.Human Remains and Violence- Manchester University Pres

Human Rights and Social Work

Introduction to special issue on Human Rights and Social Wor

Women's Health and Well-Being in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Narrative Review of Achievements and Gaps in the Gulf States.

In 2014, United Nations member states proposed a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to help further the millennium development goals that they had proposed in New York in 2000. Of these 13 SDGs, Goal 3 (i.e., SDG 3) was titled "Good Health and Well-Being." This goal highlighted women's health and well-being via two key objectives. The first, SDG 3.1, aimed to reduce maternal mortality rates (MMR) and the second, SDG 3.7, aimed to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care services. Drawing on all the latest reports, which have been released by Gulf Cooperation Council states (GCC), this paper sheds light on GCC states' work on women's wellbeing through SDG 3. the paper aims to review GCC states' work on women's wellbeing in SDG3, which achievements they obtained, which tools they used and which gaps still exist. The paper aims to explain the socio-cultural background behind these achievements, tools, and gaps. For the purpose of this study, we used narrative review approach through which we reviewed reports from 2017 and 2018 on SDGs published online by the Ministry of Development and Planning of each GCC state, and latest reports of the WHO on the same states. the study found similarities and differences between different GCC states, which in turn reveals gaps and areas that are not meeting women's needs. The findings show that MMR in GCC countries has declined by nearly half. The main strategies they adopted to address SDG 3.1 included awareness campaigns, improving access to healthcare systems and training professionals. The tools used to meet SDG 3.7 included training health professionals and raising awareness of consanguinity. The study reveals several gaps, such as a lack of discussion around challenges and barriers, and a lack of linkage between an SDG and the targets contained within it. The paper concludes that there is a much greater emphasis on reducing MMR, compared to providing access to sexual and reproductive healthcare. This difference is due to different socio-cultural framing of each of these two issues

Monitoring System Panel ATS–AMF Berbasis Internet Of Things (IoT) Cloud

Monitoring ialah pekerjaan memantau suatu hal. Pada sistem monitoring terdapat beberapa aspek yang perlu untuk diperhatikan, diantaranya adalah pendekatan pembacaan nilai dan akurat pembacaan. Dalam hal monitoring ketelitian dan keakuratan pembacaan sangatlah penting. Saat ini banyak metode yang digunakan untuk me monitoring secara jarak jauh salah satunya dengan metode Internet of things (IoT). Monitoring panel ATS-AMF dengan metode IoT dapat mempermudah kerja operator karena dapat memonitoring parameter panel darik jarak jauh melalui aplikasi cayenne pada smartphone. Monitoring ATS-AMF dengan metode IoT menggunakan modul wifi ESP 12-E berfungsi untuk mengirimkan data menuju server dan aplikasi pada smartphone sebagai penerima setiap kondisi panel ATS-AMF berubah ubah, sedangkan untuk otak dari keseluruhan sistem menggunakan Arduino Mega 2560. Setelah dilakukan monitoring didapat nilai-nilai dari panel ATS-AMF berupa tegangan dari sumber PLN dan Genset, frekuensi pada PLN, arus pada beban dan tegangan aki genset. Setiap perubahan kondisi panel ATS-AMF sistem dapat mengirim secara baik

Psychosocial Aspects of Female Breast Cancer in the Middle East and North Africa.

Breast cancer, the most common cancer among women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, is associated with social and psychological implications deriving from women's socio-cultural contexts. Examining 74 articles published between 2007 and 2019, this literature/narrative review explores the psychosocial aspects of female breast cancer in the MENA region. It highlights socio-cultural barriers to seeking help and socio-political factors influencing women's experience with the disease. In 17 of 22 Arab countries, common findings emerge which derive from shared cultural values. Findings indicate that women lack knowledge of breast cancer screening (BCS) and breast cancer self-examination (BSE) benefits/techniques due to a lack of physicians' recommendations, fear, embarrassment, cultural beliefs, and a lack of formal and informal support systems. Women in rural areas or with low socioeconomic status further lack access to health services. Women with breast cancer, report low self-esteem due to gender dynamics and a tendency towards fatalism. Collaboration between mass media, health and education systems, and leading social-religious figures plays a major role in overcoming psychological and cultural barriers, including beliefs surrounding pain, fear, embarrassment, and modesty, particularly for women of lower socioeconomic status and women living in crises and conflict zones

Monitoring System Panel ATS–AMF Berbasis Internet Of Things (IoT) Cloud

Monitoring ialah pekerjaan memantau suatu hal. Pada sistem monitoring terdapat beberapa aspek yang perlu untuk diperhatikan, diantaranya adalah pendekatan pembacaan nilai dan akurat pembacaan. Dalam hal monitoring ketelitian dan keakuratan pembacaan sangatlah penting. Saat ini banyak metode yang digunakan untuk me monitoring secara jarak jauh salah satunya dengan metode Internet of things (IoT). Monitoring panel ATS-AMF dengan metode IoT dapat mempermudah kerja operator karena dapat memonitoring parameter panel darik jarak jauh melalui aplikasi cayenne pada smartphone. Monitoring ATS-AMF dengan metode IoT menggunakan modul wifi ESP 12-E berfungsi untuk mengirimkan data menuju server dan aplikasi pada smartphone sebagai penerima setiap kondisi panel ATS-AMF berubah ubah, sedangkan untuk otak dari keseluruhan sistem menggunakan Arduino Mega 2560. Setelah dilakukan monitoring didapat nilai-nilai dari panel ATS-AMF berupa tegangan dari sumber PLN dan Genset, frekuensi pada PLN, arus pada beban dan tegangan aki genset. Setiap perubahan kondisi panel ATS-AMF sistem dapat mengirim secara baik

Offensive Hebrew Corpus and Detection using BERT

Offensive language detection has been well studied in many languages, but it is lagging behind in low-resource languages, such as Hebrew. In this paper, we present a new offensive language corpus in Hebrew. A total of 15,881 tweets were retrieved from Twitter. Each was labeled with one or more of five classes (abusive, hate, violence, pornographic, or none offensive) by Arabic-Hebrew bilingual speakers. The annotation process was challenging as each annotator is expected to be familiar with the Israeli culture, politics, and practices to understand the context of each tweet. We fine-tuned two Hebrew BERT models, HeBERT and AlephBERT, using our proposed dataset and another published dataset. We observed that our data boosts HeBERT performance by 2% when combined with D_OLaH. Fine-tuning AlephBERT on our data and testing on D_OLaH yields 69% accuracy, while fine-tuning on D_OLaH and testing on our data yields 57% accuracy, which may be an indication to the generalizability our data offers. Our dataset and fine-tuned models are available on GitHub and Huggingface.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, The 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA