INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOMEN

INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOMEN / LILIAN T. GRAHAM, EDITOR.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Graham, Lilian T. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2010]
Series:Women's issues.
Subjects:
Women > Crimes against.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Women > Crimes against
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOMEN; INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOMEN; Contents; Preface; Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent Developments; Summary; Introduction; Prior Case Law; The Prima Facie Case for Asylum; Woman as a Social Group; FGM as Future Persecution; FGM as Past Persecution; End Notes; Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict; Female Genital Mutilation as Persecution: When Can It Constitute a Basis for Asylum and Withholding of Removal?; Summary; Introduction; General Background on Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Asylum.
  • Withholding of RemovalThe Statutory Requirements for Asylum or Withholding of Removal; The Definition of Refugee; First Element: Well Founded Fear of Persecution; Persecution; Well-founded fear; Withholding of removal requires a clear probability of persecution; Past Persecution; Second Element: "On Account of" a Protected Ground; Third Element: Belonging to a Protected Ground; Membership in a particular social group; Gender as a particular social group; Withholding of Removal under the Convention against Torture.
  • Female Genital Mutilation as a Basis for an Asylum or Withholding of Removal ClaimGender and Tribal Affiliation as a Particular Social Group; Female Genital Mutilation as Future Persecution; FGM categorically defined as persecution; Daughters threatened with FGM; Female Genital Mutilation as Past Persecution; Continuing Harm Theory; Rebuttable Presumption Theory; The BIA Argument against Continuing Harm; The BIA argument against the rebuttable presumption; Second circuit response to In re A-T-; Attorney general opinion on matter of A-T-; The BIA's Humanitarian Ground Theory; Conclusion.
  • End NotesThe Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): Congressional Issues; Summary; CEDAW Background and Structure; Current Status; Mandate; Evolution of the Convention; The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; U.S. Policy; Administration Actions; Bill Clinton Administration; George W. Bush Administration; Barack Obama Administration; Senate Actions; Issues for Congress; The Effectiveness of the Convention; The Convention as an Instrument for U.S. Foreign Policy; U.S. Sovereignty; Social Issues; End Notes.
  • The U.N. Population Fund: Background and the U.S. Funding Debate(Summary; Introduction; UNFPA: Origins and Operations; UNFPA and World Population Conferences: 1974 and 1984; The 1994 Cairo Conference and UNFPA's Changing Mandate; UNFPA Operations Today; Budget trends; UNFPA program priorities; Regional and Country Program Focus; U.S. Policy towards UNFPA; 1984 Review of U.S. Funding for UNFPA; The Kemp-Kasten Amendment; Implementation and Court Challenges; Reinterpretation of Kemp-Kasten by the Clinton Administration; George W. Bush Administration and the Kemp-Kasten Amendment.

Similar Items