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Author : Moly Kuruvilla
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Girls
ISBN : 8121211328
With special reference to Kerala, India.
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032241454
Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children ́s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989 and came into force in 1990. Article 2 places states under an obligation to accord primacy to the best interests of the child in all actions concerning children and to ensure and regulate child protection. This book offers a comparative and critical analysis of the implementation of Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In order to examine how Article 2 is being implemented, it is essential to have a sound understanding of the obligations it emposes. The opening chapters will explore the precise content of these obligations in terms of the legislative history of the text, its underlying philosophy, its amplification by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and subsequent authoritative interpretations of it by courts around the world. The book will then drill down into the conceptual and theoretical challenges posed by the very nature of the obligations and will offer in-depth exploration of the long-running 'rights v welfare' debate that has always presented something of a challenge in giving effect to children's rights. Contributors are leading academics in the children's rights field drawn from a wide range of countries and jurisdictions worldwide, including those with common law, civilian and mixed traditions. Disciplines represented in the book include law, psychology, political science, childhood studies, social work and anthropology. By drawing together the various facets of Article 2 and analysing it from a range of perspectives, the volume provides a coherent and comprehensive inter-disciplinary analysis on discrimination and the rights of the child.
Author : Katherine S. Newell,Elin Ross,Carrie McVicker,Jen Cromwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Clitoridectomy
ISBN : 096637097X
Author : Elizabeth Croll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134538829
This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world. It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary Asia. In the first major study available of this emotive and sensitive issue, Elisabeth Croll investigates the extent of discrimination against female children in Asia and shifts the focus of attention firmly from son-preference to daughter-discrimination. This book brings together demographic data and anthropological field studies to reveal the multiple ways in which girls are disadvantaged, from excessive child mortality to the withholding of health care and education on the basis of gender. Focusing especially on China and India, the book reveals the surprising coincidence of increasing daughter discrimination with rising economic development, declining fertility and the generally improved status of women in East and South Asia. Essential reading for all those interested in gender in contemporary society.
Author : Collectif
Publisher : Institut français de Pondichéry
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9791036549861
Subsequent to the demographic transition, Asian countries have been experiencing deep-rooted changes in family structures. In this context, the question of gender relations within the family, and more generally within society, is crucial, in view of the increase in discriminatory practices toward women, beginning at foetal conception and continuing through all stages of life. Asia is the “black continent” for women. Estimates place the deficit in the number of women in the world at between 60 and 100 million, the vast majority of which is found on this continent. This book focuses on the intensity of female discrimination, from a demographic perspective, in the earliest stages of life, and more specifically around birth, in China, India, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. These societies share cultural characteristics that are not favourable to women: patriarchal systems, patrilineal families, socialization processes encouraging the submission of wives to their husband's family, etc. In these societies, a son is needed to perpetuate the family line and ensure social and biological reproduction of the family. These are among the reasons why they share a strong son preference, which is in some cases accentuated by economic constraints. A son is generally the only person to support his parents in old age, and as a rule help with work in the fields. Moreover, girls and women still occupy a marginal position in society, whereas a male heir offers countless advantages.
Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776617800
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.
Author : Jasodhara Bagchi,Jaba Guha
Publisher : Stree Distributed by Bhatkal Books International
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004242993
Why does this book speak of the girl child and not of the child, whether boy or girl? The girl child is the endangered sex in our society. She remains entrapped in a complex social process that 'naturalises' her deprivation. Her place is within the family which traditionally has been viewed as a specially nurturing and protecting institution for her. Critically examining this view, the authors raise vital questions on gender-based discrimination within the family. Thirteen case studies poignantly reveal the way discrimination occurs. The authors have used the data for West Bengal compiled by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, as part of the national project on the girl child that was sponsored by the Indian government and carried out in twenty two women's studies centres. The book surveys 600 sample households, covering girls aged 7-18 years in selected rural and urban areas. It offers detailed analysis of the girl child's mother and her perceptions of her children; her daughters in particular.
Author : Malala Yousafzai
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316322416
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.
Author : Mary Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745689951
Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities between women and men, structural inequalities which are not only about gender but also about general social inequality. In widening the lenses on the persistence of gender inequality, Evans shows how in contemporary debates about social inequality gender is often ignored, implicitly side-lining critical aspects of relations between women and men. This engaging short book attempts to join up some of the dots in the ways that we think about both social and gender inequality, and offers a new perspective on a problem that still demands society’s full attention.
Author : Klaus Voll
Publisher : Mosaic Publications
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child labor
ISBN : UOM:39015050327488
Contributed articles.
Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781464815331
The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law examines laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees across 190 economies. Its goal is to inform policy discussions on how to remove legal restrictions on women and promote research on how to improve women’s economic inclusion.
Author : S. N. Tripathy,Sripremananda Pradhan
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Girls
ISBN : 8171416233
The present work is concerned with problems of girl child, their exploitation, discrimination, disparity in education and health sector, sex determination tests, sex-ratio and their serious implications in India in the global frame. Both Primary and secondary sources of data have been accumulated and used for analysis and interpretation in making the study more interesting and useful. Contents: Introduction, Exploitation of Girl Child in Indian States, Girl Child and Disparity in Education, Neglect of Girl Child in Health Sector, Human Rights and the Girl Child, Conclusion.
Author : UNICEF.,United Nations Children's Fund, The (UNICEF),Global Youth Action Network,Non-Governmental Organizations Committee on UNICEF. Working Group on Girls,Voices of Youth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Educational equalization
ISBN : 9280641417
Author : Christia Spears Brown
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351803489
Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a Black or Latino boy in school; an immigrant or refugee; a gay, lesbian, or bisexual teen; or a girl in physics class. Discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity can have long-term academic, psychological, and social repercussions, especially when it is directed at a cognitively developing child or an emotionally vulnerable adolescent. How children and adolescents are impacted by this discrimination depends on their cognitive ability to perceive the bias, the context in which the bias occurs, and resources they have to help cope with the bias. This book details, synthesizes, and analyzes the perception and impact of discrimination in childhood and adolescence across multiple stigmatized social groups to help us better understand the complex phenomenon of discrimination and its long-term consequences. By looking at the similarities and differences in discrimination across all social groups, we can more fully understand its mechanisms of influence. Before we can fully address the persistent achievement gap between White and ethnic minority children, the high rates of suicidal thoughts among LGBT youth, and the underrepresentation of girls in STEM careers, we must first examine the ways in which discrimination influences and is understood by children, with their unique cognitive constraints and within the specific contexts in which they live.
Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521429269
An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.