25 Women Who Protected Their Country

"Discover 25 women who served in the military and accomplished great feats of strength and bravery. Whether through medicine, espionage, journalism, or combat, these 25 women show what it takes to be a hero"--Publisher marketing.

This study identifies gender-related protection issues that impact women farmers in Pakistan, and suggests strategy solutions that can contribute to emergency and resilience strategies to safeguard their rights. It focuses on women farmers engaged in the production of four major crops: cotton, maize, wheat and vegetables/fruit. Women in the fisheries and livestock sectors were also interviewed to better understand women’s contributions to food systems and climate change resilience. The study analyses the linkages between women’s livelihoods, nutrition, literacy and child protection issues vis-à-vis rural women’s understandings of well-being, protection and economic security. By examining these issues, the study seeks to shed light on the kind of policy reforms, technical assistance and departmental coordination required to address protection issues that affect women in agriculture.

Describes the economical, social and demographic conditions regarding the national social protection systems and its evolution within the last 5 to 10 years in the candidature countries to join the European Union. Provides a detailed analysis of the pension system, the health care system, and the area of poverty and social exclusion.

Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal protection of women from violence. There is currently no binding international convention that explicitly prohibits such violence; or calls for its elimination; or, mandates the criminalisation of all forms of violence against women. This book critically analyses the treatment of violence against women in the United Nations system, and in three regional human rights systems. Each chapter explores the advantages and disadvantages coming from the legal instruments, the work of the monitoring systems, and the resulting findings and jurisprudence. The book proposes that the gap needs to be addressed through a new United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women, or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. A new Convention or Optional Protocol would be part of the transformative agenda that is needed to normatively address the promotion of a life free of violence for women, the responsibility of states to act with due diligence in the elimination of all forms of violence against all women, and the systemic challenges that are the causes and consequences of such violence.

This book discusses the protection of women's social rights from the perspectives of international and domestic Chinese law; the legislative, administrative and judicial protection of women's social security rights; the legislative, administrative and judicial protection of women's right to health; legal protection of women's labour rights.From domestic and international perspectives, this book brings together theories and a comparative overview, drawing on much needed insights into good practices in the protection of women's social rights provided by international, regional and foreign human rights laws. It sheds light on the theoretical and practical issues concerning the legal protection of social rights of women as a vulnerable group in society. It provides the readers with insightful analysis of the latest developments in the fields of social security, women's maternity protection, labour protection, the right to employment, the right to health, and anti-domestic violence legislation in China, and features a comparative study on the protection of women's social rights in countries such as the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, France and Australia. The volume is an important part of the long-term research carried out by the Institute of Law Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on human rights and the rule of law, as well as a continuation and further development of fundamental research on the legal system of protection of women's human rights. This publication is of great theoretical and practical significance for further theoretical analysis and policy analysis on the legal protection of women's social rights and the improvement of the legal mechanisms safeguarding women's social rights in China.

Presents "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which are presented annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. Explains that the reports cover individual, civil, political, and worker rights.

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.