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Can Laws Tackling Gender Inequality Help to Enhance Disaster Resilience in the Philippines?

2011-2020, Disaster Risk Reduction, Essay, Foreign, Gender, Laws and Policies, Newspaper Article/Feature / By

With support from the legal community in advocating and implementing gender-sensitive approaches to climate action, rural women in the Philippines have the potential to build the resilience of their communities to the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Foreign Publications Subject: Gender Inequality, Law, Disaster Resilience, Philippines Author: Juliette Leoni Publisher: …

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Adjudicating Morality: Estupro in Veracruz, Mexico 1925-1950

2011-2020, Countries and Regions, Essay, Foreign, Newspaper Article/Feature, Social Development / By

This essay argues that despite the nascent feminist movements and progressive legal changes whiich elevated women’s status in society, the Mexican Revolution marked continuity with, rather than a complete break, from colonial and early republican perceptions of sexual violence. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Foreign Publications Subject: Morality, Mexico Author: Gregory Swedberg Publisher: The Latin Americanist …

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