Essays about: "IS-women"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word IS-women.

  1. 1. The Islamic State’s Enslavement of the Yazidi Minority : An Inquiry into the Female Devotees’ Responsibility

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kriminologiska institutionen

    Author : Mina Andersson Jenabpour; [2023]
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    Abstract : The notion of female devotees of the Islamic State (IS) as being naive and submissive companions of their fighting husbands has recently been defied by cases of active women participating in violent atrocities within the Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Nevertheless, cases of more passive IS-women still exist. READ MORE

  3. 2. Terrorist by Association : How the Swedish women who joined IS were portrayed in the Swedish media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Lina Möllebo; [2022]
    Keywords : IS; ISIS; women; terrorism; IS-women; media narratives;

    Abstract : In 2014 when the international terrorist group the Islamic State (IS) declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, more than 40,000 people travelled to join the terrorist group. According to the available data between 10-13% were women but the real number is assumed to be substantially higher. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Islamic State’s Enslavement of the Yazidi Minority : An Inquiry into the Female Devotees’ Responsibility

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Mina Jenabpour; [2022]
    Keywords : international public law; international law; international criminal law; slavery prohibition; yazidi minority; IS; the Islamic State; IS-women; foreign terrorist fighters; individual criminal responsibility; aiding and abetting complicity direct perpetration the Caliphate enslavement forced labour; powers attaching to the right of ownership; Folkrätt; Internationell straffrätt; Slaveriförbudet; Slaveri; Yazidi; IS-kvinnor; Individuellt straffansvar;

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  5. 4. WOMEN’S POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE PERSPECTIVE. A Quantitative Large-N Study of ODA Recipient Countries

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ana Japaridze; [2021-11-23]
    Keywords : international assistance; bilateral aid; DAC donors; women’s political empowerment;

    Abstract : Promoting gender equality and closing the persisting gender gap is critical for achieving wide-ranging global objectives and sustainable development for all. One of the key domains in achieving gender equality is women’s political empowerment, which shows the least and slowest progress among all domains, even within the European Union. READ MORE

  6. 5. Reproducing gendered and orientalist narratives - The representation of Western IS-women in Swedish media

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Natasja Bergström; [2020]
    Keywords : media representation; women; gender; political violence; ISIS; Islamic state; postcolonial feminism; narrative; orientalism; neo-orientalism; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Development and international relations discourses have for a long-time represented women through dichotomous portrayals, either as liberated Western women or as oppressed Eastern women. The former being the heroic saviour of the latter. READ MORE