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The summer is coming…anthros are packing their suitcases, getting prepared for some weeks of fieldwork in remote and less remote […]
And so it ends: Last Day at UN Human Rights Committee
It is the last day of the UN Human Rights Committee’s session and I should be frantically making last-minute notes,
NGO Strategies, Press Releases and Coalition Building at the UN
During treaty body sessions at the Palais Wilson one of the undoubted ‘hotspots’ for action is the cafeteria located on
WORKING IN FASHION – PRECARITY AND PASSION
As part of my doctoral research on workers in the fashion industry in Paris and Brussels, I conducted fieldwork for
In search of ‘Entertainment’ at the UN (3/5)
This is a phenomenally impersonal and detached forum for addressing what really are issues of life and death for millions
From ‘REAL’ Reality to ‘UN’ Reality (Part 2/5)
In UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of
Arriving at the UN
This is finally it! I unlock my bike, hop on and start making my way down the hill in the
Looking for the Afghan State in Abu-Dhabi
Huge skyscrapers in the middle of the desert. The city looks like a mega shopping mall. On my way from