Factsheet briefing on gender issues in migration and urbanisation as they relate to poverty Produced by UN Women as a supplementary briefing for the Consultative Group meeting 6 December 2011 Hanoi GENDER AND MIGRATION International context and standards: Michelle Bachelet‚ Executive Director of UN Women: “The absence of legal and social protections in many countries – and failure to implement and monitor gender-sensitive labour and migration laws where they exist – makes care workers vulnerable
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well-known nonviolent protests that impacted the society‚ and allowed for change to be made. These well-known protest embraces; Gandhi’s Salt March‚ The March on Washington‚ and the current protest to dismantle the Muslim Discriminatory Registry. The famous protests encouraged the citizens to fight for their own rights‚ and get equal opportunities. The Salt March‚
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country was being rocked by social turmoil‚ and we were at war in Vietnam. However‚ out of this tumultuousness the country arose as a more just‚ culturally diverse‚ and politically tolerant nation that it had been in the previous decade. A great example of how the country changed for the better are the student movements that took place protesting the war in Vietnam. Never before in the history of the nation had such a group arisen to protest a war that the United States was in. In all previous wars
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Criminalizing peaceful protests to become illegal is a major issue that has not become fully acknowledge by people. Ten states that have proposed this law are: Colorado‚ Indiana‚ Iowa‚ Michigan‚ Minnesota‚ Missouri‚ North Carolina‚ North Dakota‚ Virginia‚ and Washington. Although Washington is not the only democratic state of these ten states‚ it is drawn more attention to it as to why it is considering proposing a law. With a new Republican president in office and majority of both‚ the House of
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Growing protests in Brazil Now : A late reaction to a long standing and major political malaise Large scale public protests in this South American country has drawn worldwide attention ahead of it’s hosting of the Football World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016. The popular view on the streets of Brazil is that the government is spending exorbitant amounts on the aforementioned premier sporting events. A small rise in public bus fare was the spark that ignited angry and ballooning public
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Vietnam DBQ The Vietnam War began in 1956 but the United States campaign began in the early 60’s. The Vietnam War heightened social‚ political and economic tensions in the United States with events such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident‚ the Kent State massacre‚ and the war powers act. Then the drafting started. James Fallows describes how he witnessed fresh graduates from high schools were being drafted (Document F). Mr. King Jr. was very upset as he learned about the racial statistics about the
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events inspire poets and authors to cleverly voice their opinions regarding the event in ways that require much ambiguity and analysis to completely understand the author’s intentions. Poetic protest is best shown with careful choice of word‚ punctuation‚ and capitalization. The first example of political protest in poetry can be seen in “Buffalo Bills” by E. E. Cummings. Cummings dislikes the fame that Buffalo Bill received from his pointless fame. However‚ Cummings does give Buffalo Bill the credit
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leaflets‚ sometimes it does not carry the same influence as an in-person protest. In 2013‚ Weiland‚ Guzman‚ and O’Meara scrutinized that technology has brought advantages in the field of protest by aiding to spread the words faster‚ but it also demonstrated its negative sides compare to in-person movements. Social media do not contain the same passion or excitement while trying to prove the protest’s point as in-person protests where a student can demonstrate his points in an enthusiastic way
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The world contains a large population of human beings with various morals‚ views‚ and beliefs. Disagreements‚ protests and wars‚ are bound to occur with so many different types of people living together. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall describe examples of how these disagreements were solved through peaceful protests in “Resisting terror.” The first example is from 1943 in Berlin‚ Germany when wives protested for the Nazis to set their Jewish husbands free. The second example is from 1977 in Buenos
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Hong Kong Protest 1. Introduction ‘International relations’ is often short for IR‚ and it has various definitions by different people. Some people define it as the diplomatic- strategic relations of states and the characteristic focus of international relation is on issues of peace and war‚ cooperation and conflict. While some scholars see it as about cross-border transactions of all economic‚ kinds‚ social and political‚ and international relation is more likely to study the operation of non-state
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