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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Reproductive rights"”.
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Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Health: Constitutionalizing Protection of Women's Reproductive Rights in Nigeria
Maternal mortality in Nigeria is unacceptably high, accounting for 14 percent of global maternal deaths, thereby making it a global public health issue. Given that maternal mortality is essentially a women problem, it is a matter of justice and discrimination. In addition, significant regional …
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New reproductive and genetic technologies in Canada : towards a policy that manages technology and reproductive rights
New reproductive and genetic technologies in Canada, the void of regulation and policy, and the federal government's policy making attempts, to date, are the focus of this paper. The unencumbered growth of new reproductive and genetic technologies (NRGTs) are influenced by a technological …
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Brazilian, Feminist Non-Governmental Organisations - a Force for Change: Constructing Citizenship through Health Sector Reform and Delivery of Reproductive Rights
… - NGOs and the National Council for Women’s Rights, created in the transitional period from dictatorship to democracy (1985-95) to represent the mass social movement of women - have played in transition politics, where their aim has been to invoke the notion of ‘citizenship’ to address …
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Human rights, reproductive rights, and population policies: a theoretical intervention, an analytical proposal, and an application to the case of Mexico
… is to study the relationship between reproductive rights and population policies, at an international level and within national contexts. My dissertation research achieved this general goal in three ways. First, I offer a theoretical intervention in the contemporary debate about human …
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Postcolonial and Constructivist Theoretical Explanations of Women'S Traditional Agency In Sociopolitical Participation and Reproductive Rights In Present Day Mali and the Pilipinas
… how women's actions in the realms of general and reproductive health, religion/spirituality, education, economics, and as traditional healers have been shaped through colonization and decolonization.</p>
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An Ethical Analysis of Reproductive Justice in the Context of the Egenics Movement in the United States
… their bodies vulnerable once again.</p> <p>The Reproductive Justice Movement is a collaboration of organized women of color who fight for the full range of reproductive rights, health services, and parenting options for women. The movement formed by the group SisterSong, forged partnerships …
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Refugee women’s access to and use of emergency contraceptives as a reproductive health right in Kenya
… contraceptives among refugee women as a human rights issue. The study incorporates the intersectionality and reproductive justice theory to explain the barriers to access and usage of emergency contraceptives among refugee women and demystify the concept of choice. It highlights the refugee …
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Spectral Evidence
… my interests in the history of witchcraft and reproductive rights, colonial New England and the modern media landscape, and the female lived experience past and present. The novel begins when a fledgling female journalist is assigned to travel to a Massachusetts town where a number of high …
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Forced sterilization in the 21st century: A qualitative analysis of women's experiences in Canada
Among women’s reproductive rights issues, non-consensual sterilization (NCS) is commonly overlooked or mistaken as a historical issue, despite being prevalent today. While sexual sterilization can have benefits, it is traumatic when performed without consent. Research suggests that women belonging …
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Women on Web: seizing the means of reproduction
… direct action within the feminist struggle for reproductive rights. The role of institutions such as the church and state in opposing campaigns for abortion rights will also be examined. The stigma and shame surrounding abortion in Ireland will also be discussed with regard to the legacy of …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and queer theory to read George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Brontë, I contend that this ideology challenges conventional Victorian conceptions of femininity and …
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A comparison of the knowledge and attitudes of school counselors trained in the prevention and awareness in schools of HIV/AIDS project and untrained counselors in Tanga Region, Tanzania
… in the Tanga region of Tanzania on sexual reproductive health (SRH) and counselling skills. This study aimed to establish the effect of the training that was provided by PASHA on the knowledge and attitudes of school counsellors regarding HIV/AIDS. The research was conducted as a …
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The Public Life of Abortion and the Making of South Africa's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act
… life influenced the law and its legacy for reproductive rights and justice. Medical and legal experts, civil society organisations, and aborting women formed a core network of voices that informed South Africa's progressive law. These contexts and publics require interrogation because of how …
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Women's Rights in a Changing Climate: An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Gender Inequality in Nigeria.
… climate change affects women's socio-economic rights, through an intersectional feminist and human rights lens. This study examines how social identities like gender, class, and ethnicity shape women’s vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms to climate shocks. And how existing gender gaps …
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Modern-Day Judicial "politics": An Analysis Of Federal District Court Decision Making In Contemporary, Politically Divisive Issue Areas
<p>Recent decisions regarding LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and racial and gender equality by U.S. District Courts have illuminated how these lower federal courts are increasingly becoming important policymakers in our political system. However, research to date has only scratched the surface …
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Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States
… evolution of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The author argues that the rhetors of the reviewed texts reveal the organization’s dual goals of both altering and resonating with the values and attitudes of Latinas regarding their <reproductive rights> concerns, as well as …
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Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States
… evolution of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The author argues that the rhetors of the reviewed texts reveal the organization’s dual goals of both altering and resonating with the values and attitudes of Latinas regarding their <reproductive rights> concerns, as well as …
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
… mortality rates and abortion restrictions from a reproductive injustice perspective, integrating the theory of necropolitics. Using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of all 50 U.S. states from 2009 to 2019, this study highlights the impact of restrictive abortion policies during a period of …
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