Essays about: "Gender-based violence and human rights"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 38 essays containing the words Gender-based violence and human rights.

1. 16. Soft Power in the EU candidate country Bosnia and Herzegovina : The State of Women’s Human Rights in a Post- Conflict Country during a Pandemic

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Alexandra Kosovac; [2021]
   Keywords : Bosnia and Herzegovina; Post-conflict; Nationalism; EU-accession; Soft Power; Europeization; Human rights; Women’s movement; Gender Equality; Gender Based Violence; Domestic Violence; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to provide a deeper understanding of the situation for women in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the pandemic of Covid- 19. Respecting human rights is a conditionality for EU- membership, which Bosnia and Herzegovina applied for in 2015. READ MORE

3. 17. Invisible Victims of Sexual Violence : A Minor Field Study on women and girls with disabilities in Cape Town, South Africa

   University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

   Author : Felicia Häggstrand; [2020]
   Keywords : Human Rights; Disability; Sexual Violence; Vulnerability; South Africa;

   Abstract : To live a life protected from exploitation, violence, and abuse is a fundamental human right. However, this seems to be a difficult human right to fulfill, at least for women and girls living with disabilities. READ MORE

4. 18. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights : - A catalysis to combat Gender-based violence in South Africa?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Ndayambaje Sandrine; [2020]
   Keywords : Gender-based violence; Sexual and reproductive health and rights; state institutions; civil society organisations; marginalised women; HIV; wellbeing; CEDAW; South Africa;

   Abstract : The multiple components of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), promotes women’s wellbeing and rights to a life free from discrimination and violence. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a matter closely related to SRHR and affects women globally on daily basis. READ MORE

5. 19. Differentiating the Nordic Baseline : Differences in state responses to violence against women in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hilda Broqvist; [2020]
   Keywords : Violence against women; Istanbul Convention; GREVIO; Nordic welfare states;

   Abstract : In international humanitarian discourse, gender-based violence against women have long been recognised as a human rights violation and described as the most extreme expression of unequal power relations between men and women (UN 1993). Using a qualitative content analysis to examine the GREVIO reports of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, the aim of this thesis is to outline the differences between and within these states regarding their response to violence against women. READ MORE

6. 20. Changing the Gendered Mindset - A Qualitative Study on Engaging Young Men in Mumbai to Achieve Gender Equality

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

   Author : Petronella Olsson; [2019]
   Keywords : Changing mindsets; Gender equality; India; Men Against Violence and Abuse; Patriarchy; Socialization;

   Abstract : As gender-based discrimination and violence against women continues to be a critical human rights issue across the world there is a growing demand of engaging men in transforming the relations, norms and the inequal social structures. Even though there are many laws and policies in place to protect women’s rights they are poorly implemented due to the fact that society and social institutions do not fundamentally support them. READ MORE