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Important links between health and human rights are increasingly
recognised, and human rights can be viewed as one of the social
determinants of health. A human rights framework provides an
excellent foundation for advocacy on health inequalities, a
value-based alternative to views of health as a commodity, and an
opportunity to move away from public health action being based on
charity. This text demystifies systems set up for the protection
and promotion of human rights globally, regionally, and nationally.
It explores the use and usefulness of rights-based approaches as an
important part of the toolbox available to health and welfare
professionals and community members working in a variety of
settings to improve health and reduce health inequities. Global in
its scope, Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights presents
examples from all over the world to illustrate the successful use
of human rights approaches in fields such as HIV/AIDS, improving
access to essential drugs, reproductive health, women's health, and
improving the health of marginalised and disadvantaged groups.
Understanding human rights and their interrelationships with health
and health equity is essential for public health and health
promotion practitioners, as well as being important for a wide
range of other health and social welfare professionals. This text
is valuable reading for students, practitioners, and researchers
concerned with combating health inequalities and promoting social
justice.
Important links between health and human rights are increasingly
recognised, and human rights can be viewed as one of the social
determinants of health. A human rights framework provides an
excellent foundation for advocacy on health inequalities, a
value-based alternative to views of health as a commodity, and an
opportunity to move away from public health action being based on
charity. This text demystifies systems set up for the protection
and promotion of human rights globally, regionally, and nationally.
It explores the use and usefulness of rights-based approaches as an
important part of the toolbox available to health and welfare
professionals and community members working in a variety of
settings to improve health and reduce health inequities. Global in
its scope, Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights presents
examples from all over the world to illustrate the successful use
of human rights approaches in fields such as HIV/AIDS, improving
access to essential drugs, reproductive health, women's health, and
improving the health of marginalised and disadvantaged groups.
Understanding human rights and their interrelationships with health
and health equity is essential for public health and health
promotion practitioners, as well as being important for a wide
range of other health and social welfare professionals. This text
is valuable reading for students, practitioners, and researchers
concerned with combating health inequalities and promoting social
justice.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This volume is the first to use insights from recent feminist
theory on the "ethic of care" to study the slow progress women have
made toward political equality.
Using empirical case-study materials, including her own
interviews with female politicians, Mackay examines "care" as both
a political practice and a political idea, using it to explain the
current situation with regard to women's representation and to
offer a prescription and resource for change.
This collection of essays brings together auto-ethnographic,
critical, and comparative reflections on doing feminisms in the
academy in contemporary India and the United Kingdom. Written by
emergent and seasoned academics from a range of disciplines and and
geopolitical locations, these essays explore the transformative
potential, dilemmas, and challenges of teaching, learning,
researching, and working as feminist academics. The contributors
engage with a wide variety of issues: identity and difference;
institutional and classroom pedagogies; reflexivity and
accountability; and the production and circulation of feminist and
non-feminist knowledge. This collection also provides the frame and
the lens through which to view the wider landscape of contemporary
higher education. Anchored in feminist scholarship and written in
an accessible style, Doing Feminisms in the Academy will be an
essential read for anyone interested in feminist, women’s, and
gender studies. Â
This volume draws upon academic research to provide an accessible
account of the way that the changes introduced by devolved
governance are transforming the role of women in contemporary Welsh
politics. It sets out current ideas in academic thinking and why
political and social scientists are excited about, and interested
in, devolution. It is based on original interviews with
participants as well as a wide range of secondary sources. It draws
upon research in Scotland and Northern Ireland in order to place
the events reported on within the wider context of devolution in
the UK. The volume begins by examining how women activists used the
political opportunities afforded by constitutional reform to
further gender equality and women's participation in politics.
These actions led to unique, and as yet little known, innovations
such as the Welsh Assembly's statutory duty to promote equality of
opportunity. This account examines the background to, and effects
of affirmative action taken by three political parties such that
the new Welsh legislature has the second highest proportion of
women elected representatives amongst national government bodies in
Europe. It explores the notable development whereby women are in a
majority in the Welsh executive's cabinet. Against the background
of pro-devolution rhetoric that stated the case for a 'new
politics' based on 'inclusiveness', this volume presents a timely
assessment of a new phase in Wales's history; one that has
redefined women's role in contemporary Welsh politics.
The struggle for land has been a key element of the conflict
between Jews and Arabs in Palestine thoughout the past hundred
years, and remains intense to this day. While international
attention focuses on Israeli settlements that have encroached on to
hitherto Arab land in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which lie
legally outside Israel's boundaries, there is another dimension to
the land question, as this book makes clear. Nearly one-fifth of
Israel's population is Palestinian. This book examines the extent
and means by which Israeli land policy today restricts access to
land for these citizens within the 1948 boundaries of the State of
Israel. Its authors - one a Palestinian lawyer and Israeli citizen
practising in Israel, the other a British international human
rights lawyer who worked in Israel for many years - examine the
system of land ownership, the acquisition and administration of
public land, and the control of land use through planning and
housing regulations. What emerges is the extent to which the law is
being used to restrict access to land by Israeli Palestinians and
the discrimination that this entails for those citizens who are not
of Jewish origin. The book argues that domestic and international
law, which should operate to protect Palestinian land rights, have
failed to do so, and that Israeli land policies breach
international legal standards, including human rights norms.
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