scholarly journals Gender and Access to Land Ownership: Christian Reflection on the Experience of Malawian Widows

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertrude A. Kapuma
Keyword(s):  
Civic Education ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Special Obligation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Marital Property ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

Most women in Malawi encounter gender-based discrimination and violence when attempting to access land rights. Although legally land is transferred from parents to children, culturally in practical terms, land is either controlled by a brother or an uncle, leaving female members of the family with no decision-making powers. Upon the death of the husband, the widow loses property jointly held with the husband, as well as her own marital property to either the brother of the husband, or to her own brothers and uncles. Regardless of the many years spent in building their life together while enjoying the land they lived on and cared for together, unfortunately, the death of her husband leaves the widow with nothing. Lack of civic education makes many widows remain ignorant of the fact that the Malawian law protects them, and their land claims. This ignorance contributes to the suffering and impoverishment of many widows and leads some to live in acute poverty. The church has a special obligation to protect the rights of widows. It has an obligation to help empower women to secure land and the right to land so that widows can contribute to the larger community. Using a narrative approach, this article will demonstrate the difficulties faced by Malawian widows in terms of land claims. Current practices of inheritance and the ways widows are dispossessed will be uplifted through widows’ own stories about their lived realities. The article will conclude by proffering constructive proposals about how the church can empower widows to find solutions to these very real problems

Global Application of Intersectionality Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-53
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Many ◽  
Inadequate Prenatal Care ◽  
The Right

This chapter delves into examples of global intersectionality to illustrate the need for a thorough and consistent intersectional approach to human rights violations around the world. Although it is impossible to provide an exhaustive analysis of the many and varied types of intersectional human rights violations, this chapter offers multiple examples of intersectional human rights violations, including (1) gender-based violence, including both non-state actors who commit intimate partner violence and sexual violence in armed conflict; (2) maternal mortality and inadequate prenatal care in Brazil; (3) coerced sterilization among the Roma in Europe; (4) disproportionate discipline and punishment of Black girls in the United States; and (5) inconsistent LGBTQI rights. These case studies implicate different human rights, including the right to be free from violence, the right to education, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health. Each example demonstrates how a more nuanced, intersectional lens is necessary to capture the rights at stake and to contemplate appropriate remedies for victims of human rights violations in full.

scholarly journals Prevalence of Endoparasites in Faecal Samples of Cracids Bred in Captivity at the Parque Dois Irmãos, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
A. L. B. Cunha ◽  
F. S. Mendonça ◽  
R. A. Oliveira ◽  
L. Baratella-Evêncio ◽  
R. M. Oliveira-Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
High Population Density ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Faecal Samples ◽  
The Family ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Private Collections

Among the many problems arising from poor sanitation that can affect wild birds maintained in captivity, parasitic afflictions are among the most frequent, and their effects can range from subclinical infections to death. Some of the most common cases involve endoparasites, principally if the species under consideration exists at a high population density. This being so, the aim of the current work was to report on the prevalence of endoparasites in faecal samples from cracids (curassows and allies) bred in captivity at the Parque Dois Irm&#x00E3os, Recife, Pernambuco state in Brazil. To do this, faecal and sand samples were collected from the enclosures of birds of the family Cracidae belonging to the collection from the Parque Dois Irm&#x00E3os, which originated from private collections from the Metropolitan Region and Forest Zone of the State of Pernambuco. Four lots of faecal and sand samples were collected over a 60-day period, giving a total of 84 faecal samples from 58 individuals of 21 species of cracids. The material collected was submitted for coproparasitological tests using the right method and spontaneous sedimentation. The results obtained were positive for Strongyloides sp., Ascaridia sp., Capillaria sp. and cysts of Entamoeba coli, as well as eggs belonging to the superfamily Strongyloidea.

scholarly journals Separate Issues Regarding Corporate Rights of the Spouses

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Nataliia VINTONYAK
Keyword(s):  
Limited Liability ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Corporate Rights ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Corporate Entity ◽  
Marital Property ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Company ◽  
Authorized Capital

Even though theoretical and practical problems that arise due to acquiring corporate rights by one of the spouses have been widely investigated in the scientific literature, certain aspects regarding corporate rights of the spouses remain relevant and require more in-depth research. It is due to the fact that quite often the spouses invest their marital property in the authorized capital of a corporate entity (for example, a Limited Liability Company (LLC) or a Private Company). For one of the spouses who is a company shareholder, the right to property, which is being contributed to the authorized share capital of the corporation, becomes corporate right. For the other spouse, the mentioned above rights become claim rights, which enable them to later obtain certain sums of money, including compensation for marital property objects invested in the authorized capital of a corporate entity. In this article the author analyzes the judicial practice that regards awarding compensation to one of the spouses in case marital property was invested in the authorized capital of a corporate entity. It has been concluded that judges employ several approaches in the course of setting up the compensation to one of the spouses. Namely, that of the spouses who is not a member of a corporate entity has the right to claim the following: 1) to be compensated for the share of marital property that was invested in the authorized capital of a corporate entity; 2) to be compensated for the share in authorized capital belonging to the spouse who is a member of a corporate entity. The spouse who is not a member of a corporate entity is entitled to compensation only in case marital property was invested in the authorized capital of the corporate entity without their consent and against the interests of the family. The aforementioned will be the key criterion while deciding whether the spouse is entitled to compensation for the marital property invested in the authorized capital of a corporate entity.

KEDUDUKAN PEREMPUAN DALAM IBADAH (Studi Kitab 1 Timotius 2:11-12)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Nurelni Limbong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

Abstrac The aim of this research is to dscribe concept of the position of women in the worship according to 1 Thimothy 2:11-12 and to formulated what can be reflected in this time? Is the interpretation of this chapter still relevant in the midst of contemporary life? This research is used by descriptive qualitative research methods with using literature (library research). The interpretation that is use in this research is exegesis method with the right step to get the right interpretation. With the literature that have a relation with the title, the writer try to review 1 Thimothy 2:11-12 to get the clear meaning, point out view that was said by the writer of this hook about the position of women in the worship. In this chapter Paul said a women can't teach and she is better keep silence. Paul said these case have a corelation with the patriarch culture at the time. Paul aim to prevent women from teacher heretical at the time. This teaching is actually addressed to the woman who was involved in the heresy/ false, who have abuse the ercercise of power that is true in the church. So Paul said that such matter is not to be understood universally. From this research or exegesis the writer conclude that the woman also be used in God's work, a woman also can be a servant of God because nor only man can serve God woman also called to do the same thing. Proper or not is not about gender. Because man or women are same in the presence of God So. it's not true when this chapter be a reason to limiting the space of woman in the service both in the church and in the family and society. Key words: the position of women, worship

Non-Alienation Clauses in Thirteenth-Century English Charters

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Scott L. Waugh
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Long Line ◽  
The Family ◽  
Magna Carta ◽  
Royal Courts ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

During the thirteenth century, English lords acted to halt the deterioration of their feudal powers brought about by social and legal changes at the end of the twelfth century. Their determination produced a long line of legislation on feudal incidents, mortmain, and subinfeudation that stretched from Magna Carta to the Statute of Quia Emptores in 1290. Yet, until that legislation was finally in place, landlords had to find other methods of maintaining their lordship over free tenures. Professor Donald Sutherland, for example, has shown that lords asserted “a new authority to take into their hands the holdings of their free tenants if the tenants attempted to alienate the holdings in ways that prejudiced the lord's rights.” Lords also used conditional grants to restrict alienation, and beginning in the early thirteenth century, they played an important role in the effort to reassert tenurial lordship. Conditional grants have been studied primarily in the context of the family, which used them to create marriage portions, jointures, and entails. This study of a sampling of cartularies and charters, however, analyzes the different forms of restrictions on alienation in order to demonstrate how lords used the expanding remedies of the royal courts to reinforce their private lordship.The right to consent to a tenant's alienation of his holding had been an essential prop of lordship prior to Henry II's legal reforms. Through his consent, the lord could determine the acceptability of his tenants and ensure the adequate performance of services attached to the holdings. He also protected himself against a serious loss of resources through grants in alms to the Church or through dowries to women marrying out of his lordship. Seizure of the tenement was the sanction that lords used to enforce their rights of consent. If a tenant failed to obtain that consent, he lost his land.

scholarly journals Famiglia cristiana come “Chiesa domestica”: evoluzione storica e prospettive future

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2(28)) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Młyński Trębski ◽  
Józef Młyński
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Domestic Church ◽  
God's People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Christian Family ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church ◽  
Society Today

The family is one of the most basic, yet important gifts that God has given us. The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation on the interior life of God in the Divine Trinity and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called the domestic Church, agent and object of the work of evangelization in service to the Kingdom of God. This article presents an evolution of the concept of domestic Church and tries to indicate its future perspectives. It highlights the many deep ties that bind the Church and the Christian family and establish the family as a domestic Church - “Church in miniature”, so that in its own way the family is a living image/icon and historical representation of the mystery of Church.The little domestic Church, like the greater Church, needs to be constantly and intensely evangelized, which becomes the shared responsibility of all God’s people, each according to his ministry and charism. Without the joyous testimony of married people and families, domestic churches, proclamation, even if done in its proper way, risks being misunderstood or lost in a flurry of words that is characteristic of society today. Catholic families today can build up their own domestic churches and strive to be “islands of Christian life in an unbelieving world” (Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica 1992, 1655).It should be emphasized that the Church's pastoral intervention in support of the family is an urgent matter. Every effort should be made to strengthen and develop pastoral care for the family, which should be treated as a real matter of priority, in the certainty that future evangelization depends largely on the domestic Church (Giovanni Paolo II. 1981, 65).

scholarly journals Mengaplikasikan Integritas Gembala Jemaat menurut Surat-surat Penggembalaan

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Markus Sudjarwo
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Epistles ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Basic Force ◽  
Pastoral Letters ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Integrity is a quality of character that must be possessed by every pastor. that is the quality of the character which is not blameworthy lives according to the word and does not sacrifice the right principles when under pressure. In the pastoral letters of the Apostle, Paul gives a reference and at the same time firmness to the pastors of the church who carry out his pastoral service. The purpose of this article is how pastors apply the concept of integrity in service according to the Pastoral Epistles. With a qualitative approach, this study applies a descriptive method to the pastors of the Pentecostal Church assembly in Indonesia in the Nabire area of the city. The conclusion is, integrity is really very important for a pastor because it is a basic force in a pastor's ministry. The value of a ministry is not determined by the high level of education or the many hours of flying in the ministry, but by the integrity of a pastor's church.  AbstrakIntegritas adalah kualitas karakter yang harus dimiliki oleh setiap gembala jemaat. yaitu kualitas karakter yang tidak tercela, hidup sesuai dengan perkataan, dan tidak mengorbankan prinsip yang benar saat berada di bawah tekanan. Dalam surat-surat penggembalaan Rasul Paulus memberikan acuan dan sekaligus ketegasan terhadap para gembala jemaat yang menjalankan pelayanan penggembalaannya. Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah bagaimana para gembala mengaplikasikan konsep integritas dalam pelayanan menurut Surat-surat penggembalaan. Dengan pendekatan kualitatif, penelitian ini menerapkan metode deskriptif pada gembala-gembala sidang Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia di wilayah Nabire kota. Kesimpulannya adalah, integritas sungguh sangat penting bagi seorang gembala jemaat, karena merupakan kekuatan dasar dalam pelayanan seorang gembala. Nilai dari sebuah pelayanan tidak ditentukan oleh tingginya pendidikan semata atau banyaknya jam terbang dalam pelayanan, melainkan oleh integritas diri seorang gembala jemaat.

scholarly journals Family - a procreative institution and the Christian sociopsychological and religious perception of abortion traumas

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 670-674
Author(s):  
Nina Stănescu
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Scene ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

In the political and social life of the last centuries, almost every social aspect has been debated in a context of political influences and interests, of the opposition of different groups of more or less political nature. The family has always been the most favorable environment for the birth and perfection of the human being. The procreation, care, upbringing and preparation for life of a new creature have been and are a fundamental concern of any family. Children represent the "golden fund of a people" and maintain the natural human potential, give natural and spiritual strength to a people. One of the aspects that received special attention was the right of women to have a say in their own reproduction, namely the right of women to choose whether or not to keep a pregnancy. Immoral in terms of  the Church, outlawed by the legislation of some states, the right to abortion has had a sinuous evolution on the social scene of many states. This issue has many political, moral and social connotations, being politically regulated differently by different states.

Upbringing children in family in the context of secularized society

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Monika Slodičková
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church ◽  
Formal Status ◽  
Present Thesis

Upbringing children in family in the context of secularized society The present thesis presents religious, psychological and pedagogical a view of the family as a place of fundamental unit of society. Just from the basic unit of society depends on personal happiness and fulfillment of every human life. Its prominent position is not only a formal status, which are today's busy times and unhealthy and coexistence education system offers. Family, which has its roots somewhere deep in our human nature, is the most precious treasure of all mankind, because no other community does not interfere with a man so strong as the right family, in which a man comes into the world, which it grows and shapes for further life in the family, Church and State. Each family has not only private, but also the social dimension and is focused on two basic objectives and the spiritual and earthly, and therefore a good family to be of concern not only the Church but society as a whole, they are just family.

Compulsory female sterilisation in Brazil: reproductive rights for whom?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Marchezi Tavares Menandro ◽  
Hazel Rose Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Planning Law ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Many ◽  
Compulsory Sterilisation

Family planning programmes have been implemented throughout the world since the mid-20th century. In Brazil, the act governing family planning has been law for 25 years. However, the concept does not seem to be well known, being understood as contraceptives distribution. This article discusses Brazilian family planning policies, using a compulsory sterilisation lawsuit – reported by the media – to illustrate one of the many facets of gender-based violence in Brazil. This article is based on documentary research and uses a qualitative approach, applying content analysis to three selected texts. Only the news report that made the case public directly mentions the Family Planning Law and questions the suppression of reproductive rights. It was clear that conservatism was present in the actions of the judiciary, which appeared to be selective when choosing whose rights should be protected, denying poor women’s reproductive rights and upholding coercive birth control for the most deprived groups in the population.

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