After describing how gender violence became a human rights violation articulated in formal documents of international law, this chapter discusses one of the most important new issues in the gender violence and human rights field, that of the trafficking of sex workers. ... It names gender-based violence as a violation of human rights and as an instance of sex discrimination and inequality (Connors 1996: 27-8). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To make it easier to observe and understand the levels of authority that are meant here and the theoretical explanations of rights and liberties that have been already given to the "weaker sex", the chapter Theoretical Framework was provided with the theories, written laws and norms. ... Shortly, all 103 respondents were people of both sexes, different ages and social status. ... In the following chapters the work will be based on the objects to compare the level of using political rights between men and women and to find out the reasons for "unequal correlation of representation of both sexe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As human beings we are not "taken in the middle of the night" and forced to have sex with people without ever knowing it. We make a conscious decision to have sex with another individual, and I feel that most people in our culture, especially since the initiative to have sex education in schools, know that sex can result in pregnancy. ... Having sex is a judgment that is made. ... Unlike this example, many people have sex without impaired judgment, and make a rational decision. ... Now, thus far I have treated it as if the decision to have sex was solely the woman's responsibility, an...

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• Grade Level: High School

The new procedure consisted of probing objects through the cervix and into the uterus of the women to accomplish the abortion (4 Gilbert). ... Bonnie Steinbock, an author who considers herself an expert on fetuses and their legal rights, says, "Conception is the joining of the male and female sex cells which have twenty-three chromosomes each." ... Being alive means that an object grows, develops, and matures. ...

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• Grade Level: High School