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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Women’s Rights"”.
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Building Women’s Solidarity to Advance Women’s Rights in Bolivia
… deep-seated ethnic and class divisions between women in Bolivia. It also examines the cultural challenges that help explain the status of women in Bolivia and the obstacles women face to become politically active. It provides the theories of decolonization and depatriachalization as practical …
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Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria
… the contributing factors behind violence against women in two since 2001, using a novel quantitative dataset compiled from international sources. Both countries are categorized as having deficiencies in democracy, yet Bulgaria is assorted with a low level of religiosity compared to Turkey. I argue …
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Women’s Rights And Public Confidence: The Connection Between International Human Rights Norms And Public Confidence In Women’s Organizations
Since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1949, human rights has been a constant concern. Women, in particular, are particular objects of distress in that they still face the most inequality globally. Despite the need for better women’s rights, public confidence in women’s organizations is varied …
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The impact of international human rights on women’s rights in the United Arab Emirates: progress towards gender equality
… adopted in order to improve the situation of women, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). These conventions are important tools to advance …
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The Promise of Marriage Consent: Family Politics, the United Nations, and Women’s Rights in the US, 1947-1967
<p>In this dissertation, I use women’s marriage rights as framed in the 1962 United Nations Marriage Convention to demonstrate the contradictions contained within human rights that allow them to be coopted into the preservation of systems of power, from imperialism to Jim Crow. The treaty’s …
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Women’s rights and freedoms in Islamic jurisprudence pertaining to marriage and divorce: lessons for south Africa from Morocco and Tunisia?
… first, it seeks to ascertain whether the rights and freedoms of Muslim women in the contexts of marriage and divorce are adequately protected in terms of Islamic jurisprudence, and secondly, whether any valuable lessons could be learnt in this regard by South Africa based on the specific …
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The Idea Of Women’S' Rights As Equity Versus Women'S Rights As Equality/Sameness The Case Of Saudi Arabia And Beyond""
This dissertation examines the concept of women’s' rights determined as equity versus women's rights as equality/sameness by considering the reservations of Saudi Arabia when ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and highlights the …
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At the Corner of Policy and People: Engaging with the Transnational Activity System of Women’s Rights in Germany and Senegal
… system analysis to explore transnational women’s advocacy in two countries (Germany and Senegal). By interviewing the individuals who conduct this work on a daily basis, this study will illuminate how women mediate discursive policy and public action in order enact social change in …
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Demanding to be human : the moral authority of human rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Women’s rights occupy a contested moral and political position internationally. They are neither accepted as core values everywhere, nor always struggling for acceptance. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted by the UN General Assembly in …
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The Role and Limits of Women’s Rights Movements in Shaping the Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Processes in the Maghreb from Independence Until Present : A Case Study of Tunisia and Morocco
How do the main elements and actors shaping women’s rights at the macro, mezzo and micro levels relate to each other during different periods of crisis, in different circumstances, and how does the traditional division of gender roles influence decision-makers in approaching the question of gender …
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Utilizing mass media in the political empowerment of Egyptian women
Egyptian women’s activists are widely regarded as pioneers in calling for women’s rights in the Arab world. However, the struggle for women’s rights in Egypt is a complex one that has led to many achievements, but has also involved numerous setbacks. The media has been central throughout this …
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“Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
The recent history of women’s movement in India is dominated by discourses on roles of Non-governmental Organizations fostering women’s empowerment. This dissertation responds to the gaps in such discussions through a study of three women’s rights NGOs Sanlaap, Jabala and New Light in Kolkata, …
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Lucretia Coffin Mott: Early Leader in the Struggle for Women's Rights Within the Society of Friends and the Anti-Slavery Movement
… Her activism placed her at the forefront of the Women’s Rights Movement. She devoted herself to the crusade for equality in all areas including gender, religion, and race. As a Quaker minister in the early nineteenth century, she was at the center of the 1827 schism within the Society of Friends …
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Women Organizations for Peace: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem
Abstract This research examines enduring women’s organizations working towards women’s rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem which has taken precedence over gender equality on the island. This study was based on a 13-year period from 2001 to 2014 examining Hands Across the Divide …
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Where rape does not exist: tracing the unsettled position of marital rape in South Africa through women's recourse-seeking journeys
… humanities, as well as empirical research with women’s rights organisations undertaken by the author, my research question asks: Since the criminalisation of marital rape in 1993, in what ways is marital rape in South Africa rendered (in)visible in and through the institutions where women seek …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
<p>What happens to women’s rights when a country transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democratic state? This thesis examines how Spain’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy impacted the advancements of women’s rights through a specific analysis of violence against women. While …
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Feminist counter-geopolitics: knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas
… particularly targeting feminist and women’s rights activists in Iran and forcing many to leave the country, the question of whether and how feminist activism outside the country’s national border negotiates and contests political structures of gendered violence and displacement is of …
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Restorative Justice for Gender-Based Violence Crimes in Nigeria
Global efforts to recognise women’s rights, particularly in addressing gender-based violence (GBV), have led to various reform initiatives. International Human Rights Treaties, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), aim to protect women from …
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Women’s Internalization and Rejection of Sexist Humour
… how sexist (i.e., anti-female) humour impacts women. Accordingly, the purpose of Study 1 (N=225) was to investigate women’s proximal joke reactions, that is, ratings of amusement and inoffensiveness for sexist (aggressive or belittling) versus neutral (non-sexist) jokes, as well as to examine …
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