Essays about: "women RESERVATION"
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1. Ratification and Reservations: A Window-Dressing Exercise? A Study on Reservations to Human Rights Treaties
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : For the conditions under which States may reserve themselves to certain provisions of a Convention, which they nevertheless wish to oblige themselves to, are regulated in Article 19 VCLT. States may make reservations under this Article unless: (a) a reservation is prohibited by the treaty, (b) the treaty provides that only reservations of a certain kind – and the reservation in question is not of that kind, or (c) the reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty. READ MORE
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2. Political reservations and women’s economic activity in India
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Gender equality is important for economic development. In this paper, I will investigate the relationship between women's political reservation in local governance in India and women's economic activity within the labour market. I will also examine how a change in the proportion of reserved women from 33% to 50% impact women’s economic activity. READ MORE
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3. The Saudi Elephant In The Room - The Appointment of Saudi Arabia to the Commission on the Status of Women 2018-2022
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Saudi Arabia was among the thirteen states elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in April of 2017. The Commission on the Status of Women is the leading women’s rights promoting and protecting body of the world, whereas the state of Saudi Arabia is infamous for conducting systematic discrimination towards women. READ MORE
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4. The Complexities of Empowering Rural Indian Women (A story of Indian Panchayats)
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : In the following research I strive to focus on the various aspects that influence the‘empowerment’ issue of rural Indian women. I refer to two governmental reforms inparticular - the historic ‘Women’s Reservation Bill’ (WRB) which insists on a onethird participation of women at the lower tier of political structure in India called thePanchayats and the controversial ‘Two Child Norm’ (TCN) which restricts politicalparticipation of both men and women Panchayat candidates if the couple chooses tohave more that two children (Buch, 2005). READ MORE
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5. The protection of migrant women subjected to domestic violence under the framework of the Council of Europe. A feminist approach
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Migrant women facing domestic violence in the Council of Europe have been traditionally characterised, except in some national countries, as not having any legal possibility to leave the situation with proper resources, or being able to guarantee their stay in the country they are living. Since the approval of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, on May 2011, there is an option for those migrant women with dependent residence status to escape from the spiral of violence and get an independent residence status. READ MORE
