Essays about: "women activists"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 56 essays containing the words women activists.

  1. 6. Gender-Based Violence in Resettlement Camps: the Internally Displaced People of Northern Mozambique

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Marta Pinhal Rocha; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender-Based Violence; Internally Displaced Girls and Women; Resettlement Camps; Mozambique; Cabo Delgado;

    Abstract : Gender-based violence has been widely used by various actors against the most vulnerable individuals in conflict-affected settings. Internally displaced girls and women are especially susceptible to suffer from this type of violence; nevertheless, they frequently choose not to report it. READ MORE

  3. 7. “Das Problem ist das Patriarchat” A qualitative Analysis of Framing and Counterframing of Femi(ni)cides in contemporary Germany

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Siri Krobjinski; [2022]
    Keywords : femicide; feminicide; activism; Germany; framing theory; patriarchy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, 139 women were killed by their (ex-)partner in 2020. That year, Germany was ranked second highest in estimated number of femicide victims in Europe. READ MORE

  4. 8. Age of Activism in the Face of Fascism : Mobilizing Grandmotherhood through the Movement Identity of OMAS GEGEN RECHTS

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Nicola Schäfer; [2022]
    Keywords : OMAS GEGEN RECHTS; Social Movement; Older Women; Activism; Identity; Symbolic Interactionism; Feminist Gerontology; Anti-Fascism; OMAS GEGEN RECHTS; Soziale Bewegungen; Altern; Frauen; Aktivismus; Identität; Symbolischer Interaktionismus; Feministische Gerontologie; Antifaschismus;

    Abstract : In critical times of reawakening right-wing ideologies in Germany, the social movement OMAS GEGEN RECHTS (transl. ‘Grannies against the far right’) sets a determined, yet by many unexpected, political statement against fascism. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Meaning of Gender Issues as Narrated and Negotiated by Activists in Mozambique

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Karina Squiassi; [2022]
    Keywords : Civil society in Mozambique; Civil society in Africa; post-colonial feminism; feminist participatory democracy; gender relations; women’s human rights; rights communication.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Feminist activism in Mozambique has suffered dramatic changes throughout the many socio-political processes the country has encountered. Consequently, the activists in civil society still struggle to fight against patriarchal oppression, political repression, and socio-cultural norms that hinder women's full realization of their rights. READ MORE

  6. 10. Mobilising for gender equality in (post)conflict Democratic Republic of Congo: The case of the Rien Sans Les Femmes Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Yvonne Jila; [2021]
    Keywords : DRC; post-colonial feminism; social movement; RSLF; mobilizing.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of different kinds of movements across the globe as citizens agitate for economic, socio-political and environmental change. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the country has been involved in a series of wars, attention has rather been eschewed towards the rape and sexual violence of women and girls. READ MORE