scholarly journals Violation of Women’s Rights in Places of Detention

1970 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Human Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
General Picture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Status Of Women

This report presents a general picture of the conditions of women in prisons in Egypt, using the Kanater Women’s Prison, the main women’s prison in the country, as a case study. The report sheds light on the status of women prisoners in Egyptian legislation, and reviews the rights to which they are entitled, especially pregnant women or mothers of young children. The aim of this report is to urge for the implementation of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners in Egyptian prisons. Moreover, it demands that the gap between the national Egyptian laws on prisons and the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners be filled, and that these Rules be integrated into domestic law. It also calls for the implementation of modern penal policies and the rejection of the idea that prisons are places for punishment.

Komunistki

2020 ◽  
pp. 671-692
Author(s):  
Aga Skrodzka
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
Status Of Women

This article argues for the importance of preserving the visual memory of female communist agency in today’s Poland, at the time when the nation’s relationship to its communist past is being forcefully rearticulated with the help of the controversial Decommunization Act, which affects the public space of the commons. The wholesale criminalization of communism by the ruling conservative forces spurred a wave of historical and symbolic revisions that undermine the legacy of the communist women’s movement, contributing to the continued erosion of women’s rights in Poland. By looking at recent cinema and its treatment of female communists as well as the newly published accounts of the communist women’s movement provided by feminist historians and sociologists, the project sheds light on current cultural debates that address the status of women in postcommunist Poland and the role of leftist legacy in such debates.

Part II Subsidiary Human Rights Organs, 7 The Commission on the Status of Women

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabasakal Arat Zehra F
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Operational Structure

This chapter describes the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which was the first international organ ever created to promote women’s rights and equality. The status of women has been on the agenda of the United Nations since its inception and typically addressed as an issue of discrimination in relation to human rights. As the UN’s work on human rights has evolved and expanded, so have its apparatuses and activities on the advancement of women’s rights and status. The CSW played a key role in drafting declarations and treaties that promote women’s rights, organizing world conferences on women, the development of other UN agencies that address women’s issues, and monitoring and evaluating the attention given to women by other agencies. The chapter examines and discusses the CSW’s operational structure, changing agenda, major accomplishments, the difficulties encountered by the Commission, and the controversies surrounding both its work and the UN approach to women’s issues.

scholarly journals Status of Women in Arab society in Pre and Post Islamic period

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
Zeenat Haroon
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

Before the advent of Islam, world was filled with darkness and humanity was dislocated. Under these circumstances in the Arab world no one can comprehend each other. By hook or by crook wealthy people ruled the poor. The Poor were weak and considered rightful for punishment. They were subservience to the ruling class. Inspite of her frailty women situation was awful and being treated badly in all her relationship as mothers, sister, daughter and wives. In this article I have written about the situation of women before the advent of Islam and depict the status and value of women after Islam that how Islam raises women's position as a mother, sister, daughter and wife and as a human. Islam declared women's rights, her respect and her importance.

Women's Legal Rights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
African Women ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Health Rights ◽  
Status Of Women

In the colonial and postcolonial period, African women have advocated for legal reforms that would improve the status of women across the continent. During the colonial period, European common and civil law systems greatly influenced African indigenous legal systems and further entrenched patriarchal aspects of the law. In the years since independence, women’s rights advocates have fought, with varying degrees of success, for women’s equality within the constitution, the family, the political arena, property rights, rights to inheritance, rights to be free from gender-based violence, rights to control their reproductive lives and health, rights to education, and many other aspects of life. Legal developments at the international, national, and local levels reflect the efforts of countless African women’s rights activists to improve the status of women within the region.

Women’s Rights in Islamic Shari’a: Between Interpretation, Culture and Politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Dina Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Human ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Free Women ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractThis article analyses existing biases – whether due to misinterpretation, culture or politics – in the application of women’s rights under Islamic Shari’a law. The paper argues that though in its inception, one purpose of Islamic law may have aimed at elevating the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, biases in interpreting such teachings have failed to free women from discrimination and have even added “divinity” to their persistent subjugation. By examining two case studies – Saudi Arabia and Egypt – the article shows that interpretative biases that differ in application from one country to the other further subject women to the selective application of rights. Dictated by norms, culture and tradition rather than a unified Islamic law, the paper shows how culture and politics have contributed to such biases under the pre-text of Islamic dictate. As such, it proposes a re-examination of “personal status” laws across the region in light of international human rights norms.

scholarly journals Engineer and Feminist: Elsie Gregory MacGill and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, 1967-1970

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-97
Author(s):  
Crystal Sissons
Keyword(s):  
Royal Commission ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Status ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract Can a woman engineer by a feminist? This article argues in the affirmative using a case study of Elsie Gregory MacGill. Elsie Gregory MacGill was Canada's first woman electrical engineer, graduating in 1927 from The University of Toronto. She then became the first woman to earn a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1929. While establishing herself in a predominantly masculine profession, MacGill, also a third generation feminist, actively worked for women's equal rights and opportunities in Canadian society. A case study of her role in the Royal Commission of the Status of Women (RCSW), 1967-1970, is used to illustrate that not only can a woman engineering be a feminist, but more importantly that her dual background allowed her to effectively bridge the worlds of the engineering and feminism in engineering the RCSW.

Reducing Regulatory Burdens on Research with Human Subjects: A Case Study of the Transition to the Final Common Rule at Boston Medical Center and Boston University Medical Campus

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-179
Author(s):  
Fanny K. Ennever
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
Human Subjects Research ◽  
Common Rule ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Boston Medical

Boston Medical Center/Boston University Medical Campus recently reduced certain requirements for human subjects research where this could be done without adversely affecting the rights and welfare of participants, in anticipation of changes in the Final Common Rule. Modifications affected exempt and expedited categories, approval periods, ceding review, Quality Improvement/Quality Assessment activities, and some requirements for pregnant women, prisoners, and children. This case study may assist other institutions in responding to the Final Common Rule.

scholarly journals The Role Of Communication In Women’s Status: A Case Study Of UNESCO Activities

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Abida Perveen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Images Of Women

This article reviews the activities and research of UNESCO related to mass media and its role enhancing the status of women in the women’s decade. The role of communication in changing the status of women is important because of its influence on our daily routine, behaviour, attitude, life styles and choices. It also highlight the initial researches conducted by UNESCO to evaluate the change in the images of women after women decade.

scholarly journals A-4 A comparative Study of contemporary issues between the two interpretations (Tibyan ul Furqan by ludhyanvi and Fahmul Quran by Mian Muhammad Jameel)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Khawaja Saif –Ur-Rehmam Siddiqui ◽  
Usama Shafiq ◽  
Abdul Khaliq
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Living System ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Lactation Period ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Duration Of Breastfeeding ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Status Of Women

In this article provided a comparative overview of the contemporary issues of the two modern  Interpretations .These  are the modern issues that are discussed in it :Emirate of woman and Islam, Women's rights are equal to the rights of Men ,so that humanity is in Islam ,Men are the guardians of Women in transactions ,Women comfort in convict. The status of women among the people of Greece and Roman, The differed for the duration of breastfeeding, Separation of the child is permissible before the end of the lactation period ,Western outrageous culture and its impact ,Fee for nursing parent ,The issue of the sanctity of usury. Promoted image of usury in the era of ignorance and its rule. Updated pictures of usury and its ruling. Punishment  for usury eaters, Harms of usury and the benefits of alms. The sanctity of usury and the living system in Islam ,The difference between trade and usury. The issue of polygamy, the benefits of polygamy and the wisdom of Sharia, the Holy Prophet(S.A.W.S) and polygamy, the issue of marriage between a Muslim and an infidel, is it permissible to marry a Muslim with the people  of the book?

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