This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. ... In 1990, the UN's Economic and Social Council adopted a resolution recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women stating that violence against women in the family and society derives from their unequal status in society and recommending that governments take immediate measures to establish appropriate penalties for violence against women as well as developing policies to prevent and control violence against women...

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It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ... The politics until today remains the destiny of men; family defines the status of women in most cases. ... Shortly, all 103 respondents were people of both sexes, different ages and social status. ... The totalitarian society tried to construct true equality and improve the political status of women; the reforms of socialism could have a breakthrough effect in the development and resolution of this issue. ... Thus it undertook the functions of main official conductor of social...

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The section states that individuals cannot be discriminated on the basis of factors such as race, national origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or disability status. ... For example, the Alberta Human Rights Act increases the list of protected classes to include ancestry, occupational status, and sexual orientation among those protected by its provisions. Section 6 of the Act pertains specifically to labor rights, guaranteeing equal pay to employees on the basis of gender and occupational status. ... Outlining the case for a human rights oriented perspective, Adams argues that the recognition o...

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For example, one of their stated goals is to "promote economic and social progress- in Europe. The treaty states: The Community shall develop and pursue its actions leading to the strengthening of its economic and social cohesion. ... Europe has experienced many problems with this goal, specifically with social dumping'(the practice of firms especially from developed Western nations employing labor in countries and regions that have less social standards and therefore lower costs of labor). ... To enact the ambitious goals of repairing the social and economic progress of the European re...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her article, "The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible"" (2006), discusses this view of the superiority of men over women in the Roman Catholic Church. ... Therefore, Stanton emphasizes that the Roman Catholic Church degrade women today in various spheres including "social life, the state and in the church ". ... In this context, women were denied the opportunity to exercise their rights in positions of social, political and religious leaderships. ...

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It determines our socio-economic status; it determines the livelihood of our offspring. ... This essay discusses Zimbabwe's laws, policies and social stance in relation to sexual and reproductive rights and unpacks how they impact on human rights. ...

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While the equivalent provision in Law 153 allowed funding from foreign institutions operating within Egypt (in light of their agreements with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), article 17 prohibits any funding from a foreign body, whether it is based in or outside of Egypt, without the prior permission of the Ministry of Social Affairs. " The Egyptian government establishes policies, which control NGOs boards of directors, stop foreign funding and dissolve NGOs if they are 'political', and seriously threatens meaningful human rights work in Egypt. ...

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Africa encompasses innumerable social groups, each possessing different foundations for their religion, culture, and tradition. Because of this, the reasons for practicing female circumcision vary among Africa's geographical locations and social orders. For example, the Mandingo, Massai, and Swahili, inhabitants of East Africa, believe that female circumcision makes the body fertile and prepares it for an assigned place within the social order (Little, 1988). ... In the female circumcision context, the West argues that the practice reinforces the devaluation of women in the social stru...

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This is the only way out of the repressing status of the colony. ... Some fear that feminism is trying to change the social order and are "man-haters." ... The platform recognizes that the status of women has advanced but is unequal in many aspects. It states that poverty aggravates a lower status of women. ...

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An important Catholic Social Teaching is the respect for human life. ... Catholic Social Teaching states that each and every person has value and are worthy of great respect and must be free from slavery, manipulation and exploitation." This means that as brothers and sisters in Christ we must treat everyone as equals and respect everyone regardless of age, sex, religion, and status. ... The dignity of a person gives them undeniable rights such as 'political, social, legal and economic rights' (Yellow book), this makes human dignity one of the most important principles of Catho...

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Self-determination did not appear as a "norm" of international order until 1960 when the U.N. declared colonies illegitimate and pronounced that "all peoples have the right to self-determination" and that "inadequacy of political, economic and social and educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for independence" (p. 366). ...

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Self-determination did not appear as a "norm" of international order until 1960 when the U.N. declared colonies illegitimate and pronounced that "all peoples have the right to self-determination" and that "inadequacy of political, economic and social and educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for independence" (p. 366). ...

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This principle was reaffirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples9 which states that "All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development" (...) and that "All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national terr...

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After much debate and review of the status of human rights over the past decades, the cumulative product was the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action. ... The agenda also included the "examination of the link between development, democracy and economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights" (UNHCHR, 1996). ...

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