Input Paper 2 & 3 (emailed but, mistakingly, not posted until now)

Input Paper 2
My research, particularly the authors, Eslen-Ziya (2007), Hoskyns (1996), and Kardam (2005), has led me to a preliminary idea to use in my final paper. I contend that women’s agency and activism has driven progress on women’s rights in Turkey and the EU, combined with the EU accession process, has been a useful [...]

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Michael Romeo – Input Paper 3 – Mali

If we are to effectively critique the patriarchal system that affects the promotion of peace in Mali, we must analyze the role of women in the peace building process. Although women make up the majority in Mali, they are still largely marginalized. Their role in peace building is often understated. This is because the violence [...]

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News about the acid attack in Afghanistan

Hello all,
I hope everyone is enjoying the break (?) this week.
Below is a link to a story that came out this month about a group of female students and teachers who were the targets of an “acid attack” in Afghanistan. The story is still developing, although the government has called for severe punishment of the [...]

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Susan- Input Paper 3 on Mexico

In this input paper, I would like to look at Mexico’s process of democratization and how this transition has affected Mexican women, specifically indigenous for the purposes of this paper. In the middle to late 1980s, a human rights consciousness emerged within Mexico’s civil society. The number of Mexican NGOs went from four to above [...]

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Structural Violence & HIV/AIDS in South Africa

South Africa has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. In terms of numbers, South Africa has the most HIV-positive people living inside its borders[1]. For South African HIV-positive women, “their sickness is a result of structural violence: neither culture nor pure individual will is at fault; rather, historically [...]

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Mali Input Paper 3- Robin

Media Access in Mali
 
            In my last two input papers on Mali, I have developed the idea that the intersections of economic situations and the traditions of culture in Mali are the key to why the literacy rate and simple communication of women in French is so low, and can also be the key to [...]

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Mexico Addresses Gender-Based Violence

In my last two input papers, I looked at violence against women by an intimate partner and violence against women at the border towns since the advent of NAFTA.  My intent was to research what had been done on a local, national, and international level to address both instances of gender-based violence.  As I began [...]

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Input Paper 3- Lauren D.

South Africa & Human Rights Violations

Bina D’ Costa argues in his chapter on marginalized identity, that often the language of peace and the language in laws that is meant to restore a post conflict society differs or is not in touch with the reality “on the ground” (D’ Costa 132).  Lamia Karim, in Democratizing Bangladesh, [...]

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Giving thanks….for what?

Hi,
Here is an email that I received. Wonder what you all think of this? 
Native blood: the truth behind the myth of `Thanksgiving Day’
Available as an MP3 recording. Click on the picture above.
By Mike Ely
It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early
colonists at Plymouth – by giving thanks to the [...]

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Turkey Input Paper 3

Input Paper #3 for Turkey
By Kevin Duong 
 
The Gender/Sexuality Narrative in Turkey
 
In my previous input paper, I had attempted to map out the terrain with which an analysis of cultural narratives and the way that the politics of writing and rewriting narratives sustained and precluded the Kurdish population in Turkey in asserting stories about their lives.  [...]

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