Female Genital Mutilation – Violating Women’s Rights and Bodies Female Genital Mutilation is often abbreviated “FGM” and is also known as Female Genital Cutting (FGC) or Female Circumcision. According to the World Health Organization‚ there are 4 major types of practices. The most common one is the Clitoridectomy‚ a partial or total removal of the clitoris. The Excision is the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora and/or the labia majora‚ the inner and outer lips
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Female juvenile delinquency: What went wrong with “Sugar and Spice and all things nice”? Ariana Kalaitzaki S2760178 Griffith University Abstract This review addresses major questions around female juvenile delinquency‚ around which much contemporary research is oriented. These involve which factors are contributing to female juvenile delinquency and what causes female juveniles to display criminal behaviour in the first place. Theories and risk factors will be identified. Although research
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Civil rights law provides for employee protections against discrimination in many situations. The legal criteria must be strictly adhered to in order to qualify for the protections afforded under the law. What happens to civil rights if a part of the workforce is unprotected by civil rights laws? Will the public policy exception to the employment-at-will doctrine expand to fill gaps in public policy to the point where exclusions will be rendered meaningless? Civil Rights laws do not take into
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Internet Sexual Addiction It seems that the Internet has become an ever-growing part in numerous areas of the everyday lives of people. One area that is worthy of further study involves sexual addiction and how it is related with too much use of the Internet. Some scholars allege that sociopaths are starting to emerge online and it has been dubbed as “technological addictions”. This article looks at Internet addiction with respect to excessive sexual behavior. It includes discussions of the notion
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similar to other instinctive desires of mankind‚ it has existed since birth and has evolved in accordance with human development. [1] Sexual function is an important component of women’s lives and has an essential role in the marriage stability and is recognized as a multidimensional phenomenon‚ which can be influenced by multi bio psychosocial factors. [2‚3] Women’s sexual activity changes at various stages of life and is affected by numerous factors‚ one of them includes childbirth and maternity that
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Mood Disorders Mood disorders are a disturbance in the emotional state‚ which affects thinking‚ physical symptoms‚ social relationships and behavior. If you have a mood disorder‚ you might feel very happy or very sad for long periods of time for no apparent reason. There are different types of mood disorders including: mania‚ depression‚ bipolar‚ drug induced mood disorders‚ and medically induced mood disorders. When a mood factor pushes a person to one extreme or the other that mood disorders can
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Second Draft ENG101 Human Interest Essay 11.04.2013 Eating Disorders It seems like every little girl dreams of becoming a model. They want to be thin and pretty like the models they see on television and in magazines. Often the desire becomes an obsession and young girls see "thinness" as being a needed characteristic. For many girls‚ the teenage years are spent trying to acquire this look. Females are trying diets and are exercising like it is a competition to see who can lose the
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Sexual Liberation in a Patriarchal Society The American feminist writer‚ Kate Millet‚ once said that “We’re more sexually repressed than men‚ having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have”. Throughout history‚ women have often been viewed as the “weaker” gender and have been expected to behave a certain way. Women are seen as submissive and docile because of societal expectations‚ these expectations eventually became the societal norm. This “norm”‚ according
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Monday for the baby boy‚ and Friday for the girl. That’s no nursery rhyme but baby talk of the most dangerous kind. Doctors carrying out sex determination tests are using everyday language and symbols to divulge the gender of the baby to wealthy families. The results are shared mostly on emails‚ and are fuelling a business worth Rs 1‚500 crore. This is particularly worrying for a state like Maharashtra which loses 4.5 lakh girls every 10 years‚ 50‚000 every year and 148 every day. This and
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PREPARATION OUTLINE “SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT” SUBMITTED FOR: Associate Professor Hj. Sa’aban Hj. Salim BY: FARAH UMAINA BT FAJAR KAREEM (2008280166) BBHR3A DUE DATE: 23RD MARCH 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 In Class Activities 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Title 2.2 Reasons for Choosing The Title 2.3 General Purpose 2.4 Specific Purpose 2.5 Central Ideas 2.5.1 Definitions of Sexual Harassment 2.5.2 Forms of Sexual Harassment 2.5.3 Types of Sexual Harassment 2.5.4
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