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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
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Slavery through a Rhetorical Lens: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill as the Female Neo-slave Narrative

Res Rhetorica, 2020
The paper uses the rhetorical lenses to examine a neo-slave narrative The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. The exploration of emotive, ethical, and political dimensions of the text allows the author to demonstrate its emotional and moral effects ...
Brygida Gasztold
doaj   +1 more source

Transitioning to Higher Education: A Case Study of an Individual With Autism

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessary arrangements should be made to enable university students with autism (the term “autism” is used to refer to the entire autism spectrum in this study) to improve their transition to university. The need for support may be higher in countries like Türkiye, where the number of university students with autism is relatively low, as ...
Mahmut Serkan Yazıcı, Şenay Baş, Mustafa Karnas   +2 more
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Binding Analogy. A Polemical Geography of Women’s Abolitionism

Scienza & Politica
The essay analyzes the controversy between Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Catharine Beecher and Harriet Martineau concerning the abolition of slavery and women’s rights, by focusing on two critical tools: the “bonds of womanhood” and the “analogy” between ...
Anna Guerini
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L’Atlantique de l’esclavage, 1775‑1860.

Transatlantica, 2006
Although slavery was condemned in France, Britain, and the United States from the 1770s to the 1790s, leaders in all three countries considered that as a first step the international slave trade should be abolished.
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
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The predictive nature of diagnostic nerve blocks for lower extremity spasticity management with botulinum toxin and neurotomy: A systematic review

PM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction/Objective Diagnostic nerve blocks (DNBs) involve the injection of anesthetic around peripheral nerves to temporarily reduce motor tone. Although they are used clinically to inform spasticity treatment with neurotomy and chemodenervation, there is little research exploring the predictive nature of DNBs.
Katherine Archibold, Jeremy Slayter, Emily M. Krauss, Alexander Whelan   +3 more
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Dissenter Protestantism and moral and social change

Verbum et Ecclesia
Dissenter Protestantism, Pietist, and revivalist movements have played a crucial but often overlooked role in the emergence and development of democracy, the abolition of slavery and the struggle for women’s rights.
Arne Rasmusson
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Innovation as moral victory: Henry Blackwell and sugar

Revue LISA, 2006
L’article suivant est une étude des tentatives d’innovation faites par le réformiste américain Henry Blackwell dans le secteur sucrier. L’objectif affiché était d’essayer de concurrencer le sucre de cane issu du travail esclavagiste et de miner ainsi les
Hélène Quanquin
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Trafficking with abolitionism. An examination of anti-slavery discourses

, 2015
What do discourses about prisons, trafficking and “prostitution” have in common? This paper analyses the ideological framework of social movements with respect to the rhetorical deployment of abolitionism.
Mechthild Nagel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Tariffs Shape Trade‐Embodied Emissions in the European Union: Sectoral Heterogeneity in Final Demand

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the environmental implications of tariffs on greenhouse gas emissions embodied in extra‐European Union imports consumed by domestic final demand in the EU. Using a multidimensional country‐sector‐year framework, the study investigates whether tariff changes are associated with variations in trade‐embodied emissions and ...
Hugo Campos‐Romero
wiley   +1 more source