scholarly journals Mihran Herartian’s Unpublished Report on the Aleppo Missionaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Mihran Minassian
Keyword(s):  
League Of Nations ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Correct Information ◽  
Unpublished Report ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
Great Love ◽  
Humanitarian Work

The article presents an extensive and unpublished report, written by Mihran Herartian, on the foreign missionaries based in Aleppo in the post-genocide period who were working among the Armenian refugees. It was prepared in 1932 at the Armenian prelacy’s request. The author knew his topic, given that he collaborated with Karen Jeppe. He was well informed of her activities, as well as being the director, accountant and secretary of the League of Nations’ office for the protection of women and children, run by Karen Jeppe herself. He knew the missionaries’ everyday activities in this regard therefore his information may be considered as trustworthy and correct. Information may be found in the report concerning missionaries like Miss Edith Roberts, Miss Hedwig Büll, Miss Bodil Biørn and Miss Karen Jeppe, as well as others. It is full of interesting evidence about the waste of money and fraud carried out by persons collaborating with the missionaries. Affirmation may also be found in it of how certain people used humanitarian work as a means of convincing the desperate refugees and convert to a new confessional identity, etc. Herartian’s negative stance and sarcastic style towards some missionaries is obvious. The exception is Karen Jeppe, who is mentioned with great love and respect. The publication has a short introduction and appropriate annotations.

scholarly journals The League of Nations and the Moral Recruitment of Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (S20) ◽  
pp. 97-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magaly Rodríguez García
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Women And Children

SummaryThis article analyses the debate on trafficking and policies to combat the recruitment of persons for commercial sex within the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children of the League of Nations. Its main argument is that the Committee's governmental and non-governmental representatives engaged in what might be called a “moral recruitment of women”. This form of recruitment had a double purpose: to protect females from prostitution through the provision of “good employment”, and to repress intermediaries of prostitution by means of criminalization. Three elements of the Committee's internal debates and concrete actions will receive special attention. Firstly, the ideological framework (feminism, social purity, humanitarianism, abolitionism, regulationism, and/or class); secondly, the gender dynamics (differences of opinion between the Committee's male and female representatives); and thirdly the degree of gendering (construction or reinforcement of gender roles and relations).

scholarly journals ‘The Life of Individuals as well as of Nations’: International Law and the League of Nations’ Anti-Trafficking Governmentalities

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN LEGG
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
General Public ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
Legal Model ◽  
Women And Children

AbstractThis paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against trafficking in women and children. The League used conventions and conferences to commit nation-states, in a legal model, to standardized anti-trafficking measures. It also, however, worked to educate and inform states, voluntary organizations, and the general public about the nature of trafficking and the ways of combating it. The latter techniques are here interpreted using Foucault's governmentality writings, which encourage us to look beyond the juridical epistemologies of international relations and international law, but not beyond the interlacing of laws and norms, here explored through interwar League governmentalities.

Pimps, Prostitutes and Policewomen: The Polish Women Police and the International Campaign against the Traffic in Women and Children between the World Wars

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID PETRUCCELLI
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Police Work ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Paradoxical Effect ◽  
Police Service ◽  
The World ◽  
Women Police ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Restrictive Measures

AbstractWomen entered police service between the wars in much of the world as a result of agitation by the international women's movement and the League of Nations. Nearly everywhere a gendered division of police work emerged, with female police primarily responsible for social welfare tasks and their male colleagues handling investigations and arrests. Poland represented a notable exception. Tapping into both international and national concerns, Polish policewomen laid claim to extensive powers by invoking the grave threat of the traffic in women. This focus on trafficking had a paradoxical effect, expanding the possibilities for female policing even as it justified a range of restrictive measures against prostitutes and poor female emigrants.

scholarly journals Women Survivors of the Armenian Genocide: Liberation and Relief at the Aleppo Rescue Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Edita Gzoyan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Armenian Population ◽  
Armenian Women

Abstract Genocide perpetrated against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire was both gender-oriented and age-oriented. The Armenian male population was generally killed before or at the beginning of deportation, while women and children, as well as being massacred, were also subjected to different forms of physical and sexual violence during the death marches. Children were also forcibly transfered to the enemy group, while women were abducted or forcibly married. The experiences and fates of Armenian women and children offer a perspective on how complex and multi-faceted the phenomenon of genocide is. Based on the surveys of rescued Armenian women kept in the archives of the League of Nations, this article will present the fate of women during and after the Armenian Genocide.

Iqbal Masih. Le nuove schiavitů

2009 ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Gabriele Turi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Definition Of

- The definition of slavery used by the international organizations - League of Nations, International Labour Organization, United Nations - has acquired an ever broader significance: in place of chattel slavery, it has come to include the different forms of the violent subjection of men, women and children in order to exploit them. The "new forms of slavery" of the contemporary period differ from the traditional ones (which still exist in some countries, such as Mauritania), while still maintaining various elements of continuity with them. The comparison between old and new forms of slavery can deepen our understanding of both at the historiographic level.Key words: Slavery, Contemporary Slavery, Human Trafficking, Human rights.Parole chiave: schiavitů, nuove schiavitů, tratta, diritti umani.

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan F. S. Post
Keyword(s):  
English Renaissance ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Core ◽  
Great Love ◽  
Narrative Poems ◽  
Rape Of Lucrece ◽  
The Phoenix

Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction introduces all of Shakespeare’s poetry: the Sonnets; the two great narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; A Lover’s Complaint; and ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’. Describing Shakespeare’s double identity as both poet and playwright, in conjunction with several of his contemporaries, it evaluates the reciprocal advantages as well as the different strategies and strains that came with writing for the stage and the page. Exploring their reception, both with contemporary audiences and through the ages until today, this VSI explores the core themes of love and lust, and analyses how the sonnets compare with other great love poetry of the English Renaissance.

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