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Localizing Efforts to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Aid: Evolving Experiences of Power and Agency in Lebanon

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to address gender‐based violence in humanitarian settings increasingly call for recognition of and funding to local women‐led organizations and women's rights organizations for long‐term response. The Empowered Aid initiative seeks to address sexual exploitation and abuse by working with local organizations as well as the refugee women
Jihan Kaisi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language Death and Endangered Languages

open access: yesIOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014
Language is essential in humans’ lives; it is what takes to differentiate between animals and humans, it is what we use to understand ourselves. Upon all its status in human life, people are still crying of language disappearance, because many died and some are endangered. There are some questions that supposed to be asked, but only few were raised. We
Baba Zanna Isa   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Using Dual-Language Books to Preserve Language & Culture in Alaska Native Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
“Children learn their language on their mother’s lap.” This conventional wisdom from a Cup’ik Elder describes the approach used by many Alaska Native peoples to promote native language acquisition.
Bartles, Jonathan, Ohle, Kathryn
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Urban wild meat and pangolin consumption across southern forested Cameroon: The limited influence of COVID‐19

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Eras and Language Diversity in Indonesia: Transdisciplinary Projects Towards Language Maintenance and Revitalization

open access: yesParadigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2019
Indonesia is immensely proud of its hundreds of regional languages. This amazing diversity occurs because of the social impact in the three global eras: ancient migration from Asian continent, trading intensification and colonial oppression five hundred ...
James T. Collins
doaj   +1 more source

Large, rugged and remote: The challenge of wolf–livestock coexistence on federal lands in the American West

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The expansion of grey wolves (Canis lupus) across the western United States, including on public lands used for extensive livestock grazing, requires tools and techniques for reducing wolf–livestock conflict and supporting coexistence. We examined approaches used on forested lands managed by the U.S.
Robert M. Anderson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital cultural heritage and revitalization of endangered Finno-Ugric languages

open access: yesDigital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2018
The preservation of linguistic diversity has long been recognized as a crucial, integral part of supporting our cultural heritage. Yet many “minority” languages — those that lack official state status — are in decline, many severely endangered.
Anisia Katinskaia, Roman Yangarber
doaj   +1 more source

THE DYING PHENOMENON OF JAVANESE LANGUAGE USE IN ITS SPEECH COMMUNITY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper discusses the use of Javanese in its speech community. Nowadays more and more families use national language in their daily communication. Most parents (middle to high economic conditions) tend to use Indonesian to their children relating to
Sarosa, Teguh
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What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The recovery of large carnivores in Europe raises issues related to sharing landscape with humans. Beyond technical solutions, it is widely recognized that social factors also contribute to shaping coexistence. In this context, scholars increasingly stress the need to adopt place‐based approaches by analysing how humans and wildlife interact ...
Alice Ouvrier   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden Markov Model Based Part of Speech Tagger for Sinhala Language

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we present a fundamental lexical semantics of Sinhala language and a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based Part of Speech (POS) Tagger for Sinhala language.
Dias, N. G. J.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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