Essays about: "sexual exploitation and abuse"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 31 essays containing the words sexual exploitation and abuse.
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11. UN Transitional Administrations: enjoying immunity or impunity? : A legal study on UN Transitional Administrations and their post-colonial impact on victims’ access to justice
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : United Nations peacekeeping forces and operations, have long had a history of crimes against civilians by its personnel, not least concerning crimes of sexual exploitation and abuse. While human rights violations are grave despite their origin, there is a specific element of impunity and distrust when the same people who comes to ‘protect’, are the same people who become perpetrators. READ MORE
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12. Capable Guardians? UN Peacekeeping, Vulnerable Civilians, and Rates of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : For decades now the UN has weathered accusations that it has failed in its duty by allowing the scandal of sexual exploitation and abuse [SEA] carried out by peacekeepers to continue under its mandate. While preventative policy has improved and significant progress has been made in the academic literature, there are still gaps in the collective understanding the drivers of SEA. READ MORE
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13. 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 demokratiAbstract : 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
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14. UN Peacekeeping Forces – a Legal Analysis of Individual Accountability for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : United Nations peacekeeping operations have, for the better part of two decades, been plagued by allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of local civilian populations. Several reports indicate not only that peacekeepers exploit and abuse the very people they were sent to protect, but also that these crimes routinely go unpunished. READ MORE
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15. Abuse of Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Today, an increasing portion of the world's population is moving from one country to another every year to work. In recent years there has been a feminisation of labour migration where women from developing countries respond to shortages in care work in developed countries, as domestic workers. READ MORE
