Protecting Women

Author : Robina A. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Community leadership
ISBN : 1926476204

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Protecting the Sacred Cycle by Robina A. Thomas Pdf

"Xwulmuxw Slhunlheni (Indigenous Women) have, since time immemorial, played critical leadership roles in Indigenous communities. However, with the imposition of racist and sexist colonial policies, Indigenous women's roles were systematically displaced. As a result of these policies, which formalized colonial governance systems, the vital informal leadership roles the Xwulmuxw Slhunlheni play rarely receive recognition. This book strives to honour the women in our communities who continue to embrace their important roles as givers of life and carriers of culture. This book reviews new ways to view Indigenous women's leadership. Thirteen women from various Hul'qumi'num communities on Vancouver Island and the Mainland, share their thoughts on leadership and stress the importance of living our cultural and traditional teachings. A central theme for leadership emphasizes the importance of keeping the past, present and future connected--a Sacred Cycle that will ensure we bring our teachings forward for the future generations."--

Author : Ulla Wikander,Alice Kessler-Harris,Jane E. Lewis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 025206464X

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Protecting Women by Ulla Wikander,Alice Kessler-Harris,Jane E. Lewis Pdf

Explores the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. This title analyzes ideologies, attitudes, and effects of legislation across women's classes, among employers and workers' organizations, and in both bourgeois and socialist feminist groups.

Author : Julie Lavonne Novkov
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472022861

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Constituting Workers, Protecting Women by Julie Lavonne Novkov Pdf

Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the legal system. During the Progressive Era and New Deal, courts often invalidated generalized protective legislation, but frequently upheld measures that limited women's terms and conditions of labor. The book explores the reasoning in such cases that were decided between 1873 and 1937. By analyzing all reported opinion on the state and federal level, as well as materials from the women's movement and briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, the study demonstrates that considerations of cases involving women's measures ultimately came to drive the development of doctrine. The study combines historical institutionalism and feminism to address constitutional interpretation, showing that an analysis of conflict over the meaning of legal categories provides a deeper understanding of constitutional development. In doing so, it rejects purely political interpretations of the so-called Lochner era, in which the courts invalidated many legislative efforts to ameliorate the worst effects of capitalism. By addressing the dynamic interactions among interested laypersons, attorneys, and judges, it demonstrates that no individuals or institutions have complete control over the generation of constitutional meaning. Julie Novkov is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon

Author : Tim Larkin
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781609613587

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Survive the Unthinkable by Tim Larkin Pdf

Approximately 1.9 million women are physically assaulted annually in the United States alone. In Survive the Unthinkable, Tim Larkin empowers women to understand that surviving a potential attack isn’t about being physically bigger, faster, or stronger; it’s about knowing how to self-protect, not self-defend. Survive the Unthinkable reveals the effective, proven principles behind Target Focus Training, the system Larkin has used to train Navy SEALs, celebrities, and soccer moms. It’s a counter-intuitive mind / body approach women can use to protect themselves and their loved ones. Readers learn how to identify the difference between social aggression (which can be avoided) and asocial violence (which is unavoidable), recognize personal behaviors that may jeopardize safety, and target highly specific areas on an attacker’s body for a strategic counterattack. Larkin discusses how predators think and teaches women how to spot them, outsmart them, and stop them in their tracks. With principles proven to work regardless of size, strength, or athleticism, Larkin’s approach revolutionizes women’s perspective on violence and self-protection. Armed with the tools to neutralize any threat, readers will blast through the victim mindset and live freer, safer, more peaceful lives.

Author : Lucy Dubochet
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Protecting Women from Domestic Violence by Lucy Dubochet Pdf

Author : Sara E. Davies,Zim Nwokora,Eli Stamnes,Sarah Teitt
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004257696

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Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security by Sara E. Davies,Zim Nwokora,Eli Stamnes,Sarah Teitt Pdf

In Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas, editors Sara E. Davies, Zim Nwokora, Eli Stamnes and Sarah Teitt address the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Contributions from policy-makers and academics consider both the merits and the utility of aligning the protection agendas of R2P and WPS. A number of actionable recommendations are made concerning a unification of the agendas to best support the global empowerment of women and the prevention of mass atrocities.

Author : Sophie Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000539691

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Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers by Sophie Henderson Pdf

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Author : Xabier Granja Ibarreche
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781647790851

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Protecting the Spanish Woman by Xabier Granja Ibarreche Pdf

An important contribution to the study of women writers. María de Zayas is unique in the seventeenth century as the only Spanish woman to write a collection of exemplary novels whose quality is often compared to Miguel de Cervantes’ masterful works. Her two main collections of short stories, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and Desengaños amorosos, encompass a social critique based on literary fiction that exposes flaws in the idealized archetypes of masculine identity in early modern Spain. Zayas’s stories redefine women’s patriarchal disadvantage as a tool to expose the ways in which early modern Spanish women could be empowered to counteract men’s discursive and political authority, which they use to unfairly maintain their own social privilege. Xabier Granja Ibarreche explores how Zayas defies Spanish hegemony by manipulating and transforming the ideals of courtly masculinity that had been popularized by conduct manuals and the traits they specified for appropriate noble comportment. In doing so, Zayas elaborates a nonofficial discourse throughout plots that subvert patriarchal hierarchies: she rearticulates the existing ideological order to empower women who are no longer willing to remain silent and oppressed by masculine domination after centuries of failing to attain a sufficiently self-sufficient political position to ascend in the social hierarchy. By inverting the male gaze that assumes masculinity as a preeminent identity, Zayas subverts the patriarchal subject/masculine, object/feminine order and destabilizes manly superiority as a basic universal reality, thereby empowering and unshackling Spanish women to liberate Iberian culture from the repressive and pernicious future she forebodes.

Author : Beth Goldblatt,Lucie Lamarche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849469760

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Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection by Beth Goldblatt,Lucie Lamarche Pdf

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.

Author : Francesca Ippolito,Sara Iglesias Sánchez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782256144

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Protecting Vulnerable Groups by Francesca Ippolito,Sara Iglesias Sánchez Pdf

The concept of vulnerability has not been unequivocally interpreted either in regional or in universal international legal instruments. This book analyses the work of the EU and the Council of Europe in ascertaining a clear framework or a set of criteria suitable to determine those who should be considered vulnerable and disadvantaged. It also explores the measures required to protect their human rights. Key questions can be answered by analysing the different methods used to determine the levels of protection offered by the two European systems. These questions include whether the Convention and the case law of the Strasbourg Court, the monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe, EU law and the case law of the European Court of Justice enhance the protection of vulnerable groups and expand the protection of their rights, or, alternatively, whether they are mainly used to fill in relatively minor gaps or occasional lapses in national rights guarantees. The analysis also shows the extent to which these two European systems provide analogous, or indeed divergent, standards and how any such divergence might be problematic in light of the EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Author : Ademola Abass
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199578986

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Protecting Human Security in Africa by Ademola Abass Pdf

This text explores the gravest threats to human security in Africa. Written by leading experts on its various themes, it combines legal and policy perspectives on the issues, making it an indispensable book for those seeking to learn more about the real challenges facing Africans and African organizations.

Author : Siobhán Wills
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191559952

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Protecting Civilians by Siobhán Wills Pdf

This book examines the obligations of troops to prevent serious abuses of human rights towards civilians under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. It analyses the duty to intervene to stop the commission of serious abuses of human rights by analysing the meaning and practical consequences for troops, in terms of civilian protection, of the Article 1 duty to respect and ensure respect for the Geneva Conventions; of the duty to secure human rights (found in most international human rights treaties); and of the duty to restore law and order in an occupation. The book also analyzes the extent of troops' obligations to provide protection in light of various different operational and legal contexts in and discusses 'grey areas' and lacuna of coverage. A discussion of whether new approaches are needed, for example where operations are undertaken explicitly to protect people from serious violations of their human rights follows; and the book concludes by offering some guidelines for troops faced with such violations.

Author : Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson
Publisher : Fernwood Books Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1552665569

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Failure to Protect by Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson Pdf

Failure-to-protect policies and practices are intended to better ensure the safety and protection of children. But as this book demonstrates, these policies actually increase danger for children and for their mothers. While failure to protect is not always encoded in policy documents, practices that engage mothers and hold them responsible for violence in the home, while excusing or ignoring the male offender, are common. Moreover, these actions most often play out on the shoulders of marginalized and already oppressed women and, in a cruel twist, place blame on mothers because they are unable to protect their children from factors beyond their control, such as poverty, racism, intimate partner violence and inadequate housing. In this book, writers from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia explain how the concept of failure to protect emerged and how it differentially impacts child welfare clients by virtue of their gender, race and class positions. Chapters dedicated to child sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse, for example, illustrate just how ineffective failure-to-protect policies are at protecting both women and children. Beyond a critique of child protection systems, the book proposes innovative and effective alternatives to policies and practices informed by failure to protect. This edited collection compels us to think critically about knowledge that is taken for granted and opens up possibilities for practices that are not only grounded in social justice but fulfill the mandate of child welfare to effectively protect children."

Author : Robert G. Moeller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520205162

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Protecting Motherhood by Robert G. Moeller Pdf

"Entirely original. . . . All future texts on modern Germany will have to take on board the findings of this major study."--Volker Berghahn, author of Modern Germany

Author : Emma Fanning,Rachel Hastie
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781780771892

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Protecting Communities in the DRC by Emma Fanning,Rachel Hastie Pdf