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David Schroeder

Mexico City bus system promotes gender inequality - Opinionvar sectionname = 'Opinion';... - 0 views

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Women's Rights Machismo Gender Discrimination Silence

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  • David Schroeder on 14 Sep 09
     
    Mexico City bus system promotes gender inequality,
Courtney Connors

To Fight Femicide in Guatemala, New Law, But Same Culture (SB#4) - 0 views

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Femicide Feminism Machismo Violence War Corruption

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  • Women are being tortured, raped and murdered on a regular basis, with total or almost total impunity, regardless of numerous and unanimous claims for justice from the civil society and even from the international community
    • Courtney Connors
      Courtney Connors on 18 Nov 09
       
      It is going to take more than "urging the Guatemalan Government" to make effective changes for them to actually occur. International sanctions for war crimes against human rights must take place.
  • gone unpunished mainly because of negligence and the lack of effective investigation and prevention strategies of the Guatemalan authorities.
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  • Guatemalan
  • The CEDAW Committee and the European Parliament have both urged the Guatemalan government to take all necessary steps to effectively combat violence against women, ensuring full respect for human rights
  • April 9, 2008 the Guatemalan Congress passed the Law against Femicide and other Forms of Violence against Women (Decree 22-2008), that aims to severely punish any kind of gender-based violence, guaranteeing the life, freedom, integrity, dignity and equality of all women, in the private or public sphere, promoting and implementing strategies to prevent and eradicate femicide and any kind of physical, psychological, sexual or economic violence against women.   
  • Decree literally recognizes that the violence and discrimination against women in the country has flourished because of the "power inequality between men and women in the social, economic, legal, political, cultural and family spheres." 
  • The Law typifies femicide as a crime and defines it as the murder of a woman committed because of her gender within a context of unequal exercise of power; it imposes punishments that range from 25 to 50 years imprisonment.
  • "forced prostitution and denying [a woman] the right to use contraceptive methods, whether natural or hormonal, or taking measures to prevent sexually transmitted infections" are considered sexual violence crimes. 
  • 25% of women consider their partner's disapproval as a reason for not using a family planning method. 
  • the dominant 'macho culture' in Guatemala will make it difficult to implement the law."
  • Courtney Connors on 18 Nov 09
     
    Although the previously bookmarked article seeks to establish an outline of the human or women rights violations that occur within Guatemala, here, author Karim Velasco, sheds light upon newly distinguished laws and explains despite their hopeful goals, why they have ceased to work effectively. She argues that because of the "lack of effective investigation and prevention strategies of the Guatemalan authorities", women continue to be raped, tortured, and murdered at an increasing rate. Because of pressures from the European Parliament to abide by human rights laws, "on April 9, 2008, Guatemalan Congressed passed the 'Law Against Femicide and other Forms of Violence against Women Act' to severely punish any kind of gender-based violence..." However, because the violence stems from the power inequality between men and women in the first place, there is little belief or evidence that this Act will be implemented or strongly enforced by the men in power who seek to represent masculinity or display a constant idea of machismo.
Shannon Coco

AIDS-Related Stigma: Anthropological Theory and Clinical Practice in Haiti - 0 views

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poverty racisim gender inequality haiti AIDS-related stigma

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  • Shannon Coco on 08 Sep 09
     
    in many countries hardest hit by HIV, the stigma of this disease is at least as powerful, if not more so, than in wealthy nations. Through the discussion of social and gender inequality, this article discusses the stigmas that are associated with AIDS and the anticipated harships that it creates. Also, I could not add a sticky note to this because it was a PDF
Jackie Moran

Poverty Linked to the Feminisation of HIV / AIDS - 0 views

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AIDS_HIV machismo poverty religion sex education

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    • Jackie Moran
      Jackie Moran on 16 Sep 09
       
      This article relates to our course topics because it addresses the issue of HIV/AIDS in Latin America, specifically on how women are vulnerable toward receiving the disease. Various factors attribute to the women's vulnerability, such as poverty, machismo, and religion.
  • Jackie Moran on 16 Sep 09
     
    This article addresses the issue of HIV/AIDS in Latin America is becoming feminized due to socio-economic and gender inequalities. The concept of machismo increases the vulnerability of women to HIV/AIDS when combined with other factors such as poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy. There are roughly 1.8 million people in Latin America with HIV/AIDS, with women representing 25% of the infected population. The strong tradition of Catholicism stands in the way of education on sex and sexuality intended to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Jordan Costello

LATIN AMERICA: "Sexuality Is an Essential Part of Humanity" - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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Reproduction Condoms Education Sexuality sexual intercourse

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    • Jackie Moran
      Jackie Moran on 16 Sep 09
       
      This article relates to our course because it talks about sexuality, and how it is part of human nature to express it. However, in Latin America, people are not able to express their sexual rights due to poverty, gender inequality, and inequality among social classes and ethnic groups.
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  • reproduction.
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  • condoms
  • gender
  • sexual intercourse
  • Jordan Costello on 16 Sep 09
     
    it talks about the sex in latin america and the lack of sex education there. It talks about places in latin america where sex is very prevelant and it talks about solutions to help bring sex education to latin america.
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