Approximately 5,000 westerners have joined the Islamic State, and about 600-700 of them are female. But in France, roughly half of all those joining ISIS between the ages of 12 and 17 are girls. They are mainly from middle-class backgrounds, with around 30 per cent having no connection with Islam.   Continue reading the article here.

Synthesis report including i) a presentation of the theoretical background of common-pool resources management and the main instruments available, with emphasis on decentralized, local-level solutions as elaborated by Elinor Ostrom (Nobel Prize 2009) and her followers, and ii) a series of groundwater management case studies from Northern and...

In June 2016, France became the first industrialized nation to ratify the Paris climate deal reached in December 2015. So far, just 17 states – mainly small islands and low-lying coastal countries that are especially vulnerable to the sea-level rise – have ratified the deal. French president François Hollande issued an urgent reminder that the...

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