1. | Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (ed.) : Child survival , 1987 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Child survival : anthropological perspectives on the treatment and maltreatment of children / Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (ed.) - (Culture, illness and healing ; No. 11), 396 p.. - Dordrecht : D.Reidel Publishing co.(D), 1987. ISBN 1 55608 02 8 X LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: This volume represents an attempt to situate reproduction, child treatments, and child survival within its broadest possible framework, one that takes into account bio-evolutionary, demographic, economic, moral, political and ideological constraints on individual and collective behaviors toward children. INDEX WORDS:
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2. | Miller, Barbara, D. : Female infanticide and child neglect in rural North India, 1987 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a monograph Female infanticide and child neglect in rural North India / Miller, Barbara, D. REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT: Child survival : antropological perspectives on the treatment and maltreatment of children / Scheper-Hughes, N. (ed.) - ( Culture, illness and healing ; No. 11), p. 95-112. - Dordrecht : D.Reidel Publishing co.(D), 1987. ISBN 1 55608 028 X LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: This chapter examines a variety of data and information sources on the dimensions and social context of female infanticide and daughter neglect in rural North India.The situation both today and in in earlier centurie's is discussed.The role of the health programme in Runjab is also considered. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: India : 7425 |
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3. | Mull, Dorothy, S. : Infanticide among the Tarahumara of the Mexican Sierra Madre., 1987 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a monograph Infanticide among the Tarahumara of the Mexican Sierra Madre. / Mull, Dorothy, S. ; Mull, Dennis REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT: Child survival : antropological perspectives on the treatment and maltreatment of children / Scheper-Hughes, N. (ed.) - ( Culture, illness and healing ; No. 11), p. 113-132. - Dordrecht : D.Reidel Publishing co.(D), 1987. ISBN 1 55608 028 X LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: The characteristic independence and reserve of the Tarahumara people and the continued isolation of the region from the mestizo Mexican legal system allows the maintenance of infanticidal behaviour.A brief description of the people and their culture, a case and some clinical implications are provided. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Mexico / Latin America : 6243 |
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4. | Neirinck, Claire : La protection de la personne de l'enfant contre ses parents, 1984 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series La protection de la personne de l'enfant contre ses parents / Neirinck, Claire - (Bibliotheque de droit prive ; tome 182), x, 453 p.. - Paris, 1984. ISBN 2-275-00999-X LANGUAGE: FRE INDEX WORDS:
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5. | Hom, Sharon K. : Female infanticide in China, 1992 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a serial Female infanticide in China : the human rights specter and thoughts towards an(other) vision / Hom, Sharon K. REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT (Periodica): Columbia human rights law review : vol. 23; no. 2., p. 249-314. - New York : Columbia University School of Law, 1992. - ISSN 0090-7944 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: China NOTE (GENERAL): UN charter-1; UDHR-16; CEDAW; ICCPR; |
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6. | Charny, Israel W. (ed.) : The widening circle of genocide, 1994 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series The widening circle of genocide : genocide : a critical bibliographic review / Charny, Israel W. (ed.) ; with a foreword by Irving Louis Horowitz - (Genocide ; vol. 3), xxvii, 375 p.. - New Brunswick : Transaction publ., 1994. ISBN 1-56000-172-0 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
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7. | Sancho, Nelia : A girl is born ... a girl voices out against violence to seek protection, 1996 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a serial A girl is born ... a girl voices out against violence to seek protection : the speak-out for girls campaign at the Beijing fourth world conference on women and the NGO forum on women 1995 / Sancho, Nelia ; Cuadra, Epifania REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT (Periodica): The international journal of children's rights : vol. 4; no. 1., p. 79-84. - Dordrecht : Kluwer, 1996. - ISSN 0927-5568 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
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8. | Ledwon, Leonora : Maternity as a legal fiction, 1996 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a serial Maternity as a legal fiction : infanticide and Sir Walter Scott's "The heart of Midlothian" / Ledwon, Leonora REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT (Periodica): Women's rights law reporter : vol. 18; no. 1., p. 1-16. - Washington, NJ : Rutgers, 1996. - ISSN 0085-8269 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
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9. | Hamilton, Carolyn : Family, law and religion, 1995 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Family, law and religion / Hamilton, Carolyn, xxix, 366 p.. - London : Sweet & Maxwell, 1995. ISBN 0-421-60420-4 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): ACHPR; AMR; Convention on consent to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriage; CDE; Declaration on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief; ECHR; Geneva conventions; ICCPR; ICESCR; CEDAW; CRC; UDHR; |
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10. | Bridgeman, Jo : Feminist perspectives on law, 1997 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Feminist perspectives on law : law's engagement with the female body / Bridgeman, Jo ; Millns, Susan, 797 p.. - London : Sweet & Maxwell, 1997. ISBN 0-421-59750-X LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
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11. | Jejeebhoy, Shireen : Women's education, autonomy and reproductive behaviour experience from developing countries, 1995 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series Women's education, autonomy and reproductive behaviour experience from developing countries / Jejeebhoy, Shireen ; with foreword by Nafis Sadik - ( International stduies in demography), xvi, 306 p.. - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-829033-0 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
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12. | Inger, Göran : Svensk rättshistoria, 1997 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Svensk rättshistoria / Inger, Göran. - 4. uppl.., 325 p.. - Malmö : Liber, 1997. ISBN 91-47-04026-2 LANGUAGE: SWE INDEX WORDS:
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13. | Yamani, Mai (ed.) : Feminism and islam, 1996 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Feminism and islam : legal and literary perspectives / Yamani, Mai (ed.) ; with additional editorial assistance from Andrew Allen, xii, 385 p.. - New York : New York U. P., 1996. ISBN 0-8147-9681-8 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: The articles are:. 1. Entrepreneurial women in Egypt, by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot. 2. Law and the desire for social control : an insight into the hanafi concept of Kafa'a with reference to the Fatawa 'Alamgiri (1664-1672), by Mona Siddiqui. 3. Women, Islam and patriarchalsim, by Ghada Karmi. 4. Women in Islamic law, by Raga El-Nimr. 5. The political agendas and textual strategies of Levantine women writers, by Elizabeth McKee. 6. Crimes of honour and the construction of gender in Arab societies, by Lama Abu-odeh. 7. islam and feminism : an analysis of political strategies, by Haleh Afshar. 8. Gender and the politics of religion in the Middle East, by Maha Azzam. 9. The mythology of modernity : women and democracy in Lebanon, by Jean Said Makdisi´. 10. Gulf women and Islamic law, by Munira Fakhro. 11. Some observations on women in Saudi Arabia, by Mai Yamani. 12. Stretching the limits : a feminist reading of the Shari'a in post-Khomeini Iran, by ZIba Mir-Hosseini. 13. Statutory discrimination in Lebanon : a lawyer's view, by Souad Mokbel-Wensley. 14. Islamic family legislation : the authoritarian discourse of silence, by Najla Hamadeh. 15. The women's convention in the Muslim world, by jane Connors. INDEX WORDS:
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14. | Biggs, Hazel : Euthanasia, death with dignity and the law, 2001 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Euthanasia, death with dignity and the law / Biggs, Hazel, xvi, 187 p.. - Oxford : Hart publ., 2001. ISBN 1-84113-091-5 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. To kill or not to kill : is that the euthanasia question. 2. Euthanasia and clinically assisted death : from caring to killing? 3. Consent to treatment but not to death. 4. Autonomy, self-determination and self-destruction. 5. Living wills and the will to die. 6. Is euthanasia a dignified death? 7. Conlusions : dignified life, dignified death and dignified law. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Australia / Canada / United Kingdom / USA NOTE (GENERAL): Canadian charter of rights and freedoms; |
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15. | O'Donovan, Katherine (ed.) : Human rights and legal history, 2000 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Human rights and legal history : essays in honour of Brian Simpson / O'Donovan, Katherine (ed.) ; Rubin, Gerry R. (ed.), viii, 321 p.. - Oxford : Oxford U.P., 2000. ISBN 0-19-826496-8 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. International Law, the Individual, and A. W. Brian Simpson's Contribution to the Defence of Human Rights, by Nuala Mole. 2. A Common Law of Human Rights? Transnational Judicial Conversations on Constitutional Rights, by Christopher McCrudden. 3. Enfants Trouves, Anonymous Mothers, and Children's Identity Rights, by Katherine O'Donovan. 4. In the Highest Degree Ominous: Hitler's Threatened Invasion and the British War Zone Courts, by G. R. Rubin. 5. Tears of the Law; Colonial Resistance and Legal Determination, by Peter Fitzpatrick. 6. The ratio decidendi of the Case of the Prodigal Son, by William Twining . 7. Three Very Remarkable Nineteenth-Century Lawyers: Lyndhurst, Denman, and Campbell, by Gareth Jones. 8. The Fate of the Civil Jury in Late-Victorian England: Malicious Prosecution as a Test Case, by Joshua Getzler. 9. The Seventh Amendment Right to Jury Trial: Late-Eighteenth- Century Practice Reconsidered, by James Oldham. 10. The Author's Surrogate: the Genesis of British Copyright, by W. R. Cornish. 11. Due Process and Wager of Law: Judicial Conservatism in the Tudor Common Pleas, by J. H. Baker 12. Brian Simpson in the United States, by R. H. Helmholz. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): UDHR; CRC; UN charter; ECHR; CAT; CERD; ICCPR; Human rights act; |
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16. | Schlemmer, Bernard (ed.) : The exploited child, 2000 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph The exploited child / Schlemmer, Bernard (ed.) ; Philip Dresner (transl.), xi, 338 p.. - London : Zed Books, 2000. ISBN 1-85649-721-6 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. General Introduction - Bernard Schlemmer PART I : The Economic and Social Context of Child Labour: 2. Introduction: A History of Exploited Children in Europe - Alessandro Stella. Ia. Child Labour in the Current Economic System: 3. The Economy and Child Labour: An Overview, by Claude Meillassoux. 4. Child Labour and the Export Sector in the Indian Carpet Industry, by Mohini Gulrajani. 5. Growing up in Ghana: Deregulaton and the Employment of Children, by Martin Verlet. 6. Living and Working Conditions: Child Labour in the Coal Mines of Colombia, by Beatriz S. Cespedes Sastre and Maria-Isabel Zarama V Meyer. 7. Stigmatisation versus Identity: Child Street Workers in Mexico, by Elvira Taracena and Maria-Luisa Tavera. Ib. Child Labour in Society: 8. Public Policy, Society and Child Labour, by Francis Gendreau. 9. Why is Child Labour Tolerated? The Case of Brazil, by Lia Fukui. 10. The Social Exclusion of Children in circumstances of Rapid Economic Growth: Working Children in Thailand, by Chantana Banpasirichote. 11. The Public Policy Problem: Child Labour and the Law in India, by Usha Ramanathan. 12. Debates on Poor Children in Brazil: Between Marginalisation and Premature Labour, by Rosilene Alvim. PART 2: The Structure and Dynamics of Exploitation. 13. Introduction: Child Labour in the light of Bonded Labour, by Michel Bonnet. IIa. The Domination of Fathers as the Typical Social Relationship: 14. Paternal Domination: The Typical Relationship Conditioning the Exploitation of Children, by Alain Morice. 15. Child Employment in a Capitalist Labour Market: The British Case, by Michael Lavalette. 16. Coffee Beans and the Seeds of Labour: Child Labour on Guatemalan Plantations, by Charles-Edouard de Suremain. 17. The Exploitation of Apprentices in Togo, by Yves Marguerat. 18. Apprenticeship in France: A Parallel Case in an Industrialised Society, by Bernard Garet. IIb. From Socialisation through Work to Exploitation for a Profit: 19. Family versus the Logic of the Market, by Robert Cabanes. 20. The Demand for Labour within the Household: Child Labour in Togo, by Marie-France Lange. 21. The Household Economy and Commercial Exploitation of Children's Work: the Case of Kerala, by Olga Nieuwenhuys. 22. The Disintegrating Social Fabric: Child Labour and Socialisation in Senegal, by Serigne Mor Mbaye and Abdou Salam Fall. 23. 'Unexploited' Labour: Social Transition in Madagascar - Bodo Ravololomanga and Bernard Schlemmer. 24. Looking Ahead: A General Conclusion, by Claude Meillassoux. INDEX WORDS:
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17. | Agosin, Marjorie (ed.) : Women, gender and human rights, 2001 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Women, gender and human rights : a global perspective / Agosin, Marjorie (ed.) , viii, 339 p.. - Piscataway, NJ : Rutgers University, 2001. ISBN 0-8135-2983-2 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. I. Theoretical visions. II. Women and health. III. Women, activism and social change. IV. Women and the cultures of displacement. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): CEDAW; UN charter;
URL http://165.230.98.36/acatalog/__Women_and_Human_Rights_706.html#1009 |
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18. | Shalev, Carmel : China to Cedaw, 2001 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a serial China to Cedaw : an update on population policy / Shalev, Carmel REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT (Periodica): Human rights quarterly : vol. 23; no. 1., p. 119-147. - Baltimore, MA : John Hopkins University, 2001. - ISSN 0275-0392 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): ICCPR; ICESCR; CEDAW;
URL http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v023/23.1shalev.html |
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19. | Levesque, Roger J. R. : Sexual abuse of children, 1999 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Sexual abuse of children : a human rights perspective / Levesque, Roger J. R., x, 350 p.. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana U. P., 1999. ISBN 0-253-33471-3 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Arabia / Australia / Bangladesh / Burma / Cambodia / Canada / Ethiopia / France / Netherlands / Israel / Latin America / Nepal / New Zealand / Zambia / Senegal / Singapore / Sri lanka / Sudan / Sweden / Switzerland / South Africa / Taiwan / Turkey / Uganda / USA / Viet nam NOTE (GENERAL): Convention for the suppression of the traffic of persons and the exploitation and the prostitution of others; DEDAW; CEDAW; Genocide convention; CRC; ICCPR; ICESCR; Draft optional protocol to the United Nations convention on the rights of the child concerning the elimination of sexual exploitation and trafficking of children;
URL http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-33471-3.shtml |
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20. | Nicolson, Donald (ed.) : Feminist perspectives on criminal law, 2000 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Feminist perspectives on criminal law / Nicolson, Donald (ed.) ; Bibbings, Lois, xxx, 282 p.. - London : Cavendish publ., 2000. ISBN 1859415261 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Criminal law and feminism, by D. Nicolson. PART I : GENDER, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT:. 2. The same old story : examining women's involvement in the initial stages of the criminal justice system, by Caroline Keenan. 3. Feminist perspectives on theories of punishment, by Marie Fox. 4. Against the politics of sex discrimination : for the politics of difference and a women-wise approach to sentencing, by Pat Carlen. PART II : GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY:. 5. General principles of criminal law?, by N. Lacey. 6. Re-reading criminal law : gendering the mental element, by Matthew Rollinson. 7. Groups, girls and fears, Celia Wells. 8. Gender defences, by Aileen McColgan. 9. What the law giveth, it also taketh away : female-specific defences to criminal liability, by Donald Nicolson. PART III : SPECIFIC OFFENCES:. 10. Rape and criminal justice at the millennium, by Jennifer Tempkin. 11. Commercial sex and criminal law, by Mary Childs. 12. Boys will be boys : masculinity and offences against the person, by Lois Bibbings. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): ECHR;
URL http://www.cavendishpublishing.com/html/moreinfo.asp?BookID=536903478&catid= |
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21. | Bob, Clifford (ed.) : The international struggle for new human rights, 2009 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph The international struggle for new human rights / Bob, Clifford (ed.) - ( Pennsylvania studies in human rights), vi, 194 p.. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8122-4131-0 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: 1. Introduction : Fighting for new rights / Clifford Bob. 2. Orphaned again? Children born of wartime rape as a non-issue for the human rights movement / R. Charli Carpenter. 3. "Dalit rights are human rights" : untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian state / Clifford Bob. 4. Applying the gatekeeper model of human rights activism : the U.S.-based movement for LGBT rights / Julie Mertus. 5. From resistance to receptivity : transforming the HIV/AIDS crisis into a human rights issue / Jeremy Youde. 6. Disability rights and the human rights mainstream : reluctant gate-crashers? / Janet E. Lord. 7. New rights for private wrongs : female genital mutilation and global framing dialogues / Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk. 8. Economic rights and extreme poverty : moving toward subsistence / Daniel Chong. 9. Local claims, international standards, and the human right to water / Paul J. Nelson. INDEX WORDS:
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22. | Reilly, Niamh : Women's human rights, 2009 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Women's human rights : seeking gender justice in a globalizing age / Reilly, Niamh, xii, 203 p.. - Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7456-3700-6 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. Chapter 1 -- Theorising transnational feminist advocacy in a globalising age. Chapter 2 -- Human Rights, Gender and Contested Meanings. Chapter 3 -- Women's Human Rights as Equality and Non- Discrimination. Chapter 4 -- Violence against Women and Reproductive and Sexual Health as Human Rights Issues. Chapter 5 -- Women's Human Rights in Conflict and Post-conflict Transformation. Chapter 6 -- Development, Globalisation and Women's Human Rights. Chapter 7 -- Fundamentalisms and Women's Human Rights. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): CEDAW; ICESCR; DEDAW; ICCPR; CERD; |