Essays about: "Adolescent marriage"
Found 5 essays containing the words Adolescent marriage.
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1. A Gendered Approach to Understanding Salinity Intrusion Impacts: A Case Study on a Coastal Region of Bangladesh
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : This study sheds light on the salinity-induced social insecurities of coastal women and adolescent girls of Bangladesh and shows how salinity contributes to creating and intensifying those insecurities. Moreover, the study explores the gendered division of labor and shows how coastal females’ gender roles are accelerating to their deprivation and disadvantaged situation. READ MORE
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2. The nexus between child protection and gender-based violence programming; the impact for displaced adolescent girls in Jordan
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against children are pervasive and destructive globally, but the exacerbation of violence in emergency contexts makes addressing them an urgent priority in humanitarian action. However, despite recognition of overlapping risks and intervention opportunities, child protection programming and GBV programming have hitherto followed discrete trajectories, resulting in adolescent (aged between 10 and 19 years) girls falling between the domains, despite their heightened vulnerability to GBV. READ MORE
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3. A Girl Disciplined is A Girl Saved? Child Marriage Discourses in U.S. National, Foreign, and Immigration Policy
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Child marriage, usually regarded as an issue pertaining to the non-‘developed’ parts of the world, can still be found in the United States (US), though efforts to combat it shape foreign policy goals. Is child marriage represented as a ‘problem’ in the same way internally as externally, and how do human rights play a role? Using Bacchi’s “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” approach, the problem representations emerge, showing that child marriage functions as a ‘solution’ to welfare ‘problems’ in national policy, as an obstacle to economic prosperity in foreign policy; and as a ‘foreign’ culture ‘problem’ in immigration policy. READ MORE
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4. Multidimensional Empowerment in Child Marriage Interventions : A study of four Sub-Saharan African cases
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : Child marriage constitutes one of the currently biggest obstacles to gender equality and human development. As the practice has gained more attention in the international arena within the past two decades, a number of evaluations have been produced. READ MORE
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5. Adolescent Marriage and Rainfall The Effect of Climate Change in Nepal and Uganda
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This paper studies the relationship between the amount of rainfall and the probability of adolescent marriage in two countries where marriage payments are prevalent: dowry in Nepal and bride price in Uganda. Dowry is a marital payment from the bride’s family to the groom, whereas bride price is the transfer from the groom to the bride’s family. READ MORE
