Search results for: “discrimination against women”
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Plan on Women, Peace, and Security
The United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document “Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law”): On December 19, 2011, President Obama issued Executive Order 13595 directing that the […]
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Gender Discrimination
Spanish Translation of gender discrimination This is the legal translation of English to Spanish in relation to gender discrimination and / or a definition of this topic: Discriminación por Motivo de Sexo (in Spanish, without translation of the dictionary entry). Gender Discrimination […]
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Eliminating Violence Against Women
Eliminating Violence Against Women in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Eliminating Violence Against Women: The United States participated in a clustered interactive dialogue on freedom of expression and violence against women at the 23rd session of the HRC […]
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Women Trafficking
Women Trafficking and the Refugee Issues As published by the UNHCR in relation to Women Trafficking: While it is difficult to provide a precise number of women trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation, there is no question that the estimates are extremely significant. In light of the […]
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History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century
History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century Women’s in the 20th-Century Developments Socialists Movements and Communism Governments After wars and revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949), new Communist governments discouraged the patriarchal family system and supported sexual equality, including birth control. In the Soviet Union, however, the majority of working women held low-paid…
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History of Women’s Rights
History of Women’s Rights until the 20th Century Traditional Status Some scholars argue that the discovery throughout the European continent and the Near East of thousands of stone figures of female goddesses dating from the Paleolithic period and on indicates that early societies were originally goddess-worshiping, matrifocal civilizations. Male dominance, however, was preeminent from the…
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Women International Law Part 7
Women International Law Part 7 65 Askin, Kelly D., and Dorean M. Koenig (eds.). Women and International Human Rights Law (vols. 1 & 2) Dorinda G. Dallmeyer American Journal of International Law Volume 94, Number 3, July 2000 p.606 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 66 Persecution On Account Of Gender: A Need For Refugee…
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Women International Law Part 7
Women International Law Part 7 65 Askin, Kelly D., and Dorean M. Koenig (eds.). Women and International Human Rights Law (vols. 1 & 2) Dorinda G. Dallmeyer American Journal of International Law Volume 94, Number 3, July 2000 p.606 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 66 Persecution On Account Of Gender: A Need For Refugee…
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Women International Law Part 5
Women International Law Part 5 53 Kelly D. Askin and Dorean M. Koenig (eds.), Women and International Human Rights Law (Transnational Publishers, Ardsley, NY). Volume 1: Introduction to Women’s Human Rights Issues, 1999, xxv + 727 pp., $115.00 ISBN 1-57105-064-7 (h-b); Volume 2: International Courts, Instruments, and Organizations and Select Regional Issues Affecting Women,…
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Women International Law Part 4
Women International Law Part 4 43 TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSE, RELATIONAL AUTHORITY, AND THE U.S. COURT: GENDER EQUALITY Vicki C. Jackson Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review Volume 37, Number 2, Fall 2003 p.271 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW Scholars and jurists have taken note of “transnational judicial conversations,””dialogue”or “transjudicial communication”about human rights. Gender equality is…
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Women International Law Part 1
Women International Law Part 1 1 THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY-ADDRESSING WOMEN’S POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE Beth Goldblatt South African Journal on Human Rights Volume 25, Part 3, 2009 p.442 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW Women in South Africa are generally poorer than men and more vulnerable. They perform the bulk of the caring functions…