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Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide [PDF]
, 2015 A distinct category of women has been identified in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, those who commit extreme forms of violence and murder against their children in order to fulfil their religious obligations or to protect themselves from perceived
Agazue, Chima Damian +2 more
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Translating Medea’s Infanticide:
Crossings, 2019 The figure of Medea is indeed one of the most enigmatic and problematic characters of Greek mythology. In Euripides’ Medea, the problem becomes acute because it is not merely a vengeful character that the reader comes across, but a woman who in order to
Sohana Manzoor
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Mission impossible: upholding successfully a charge of infanticide in the Albanian legal practice.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2015 Infanticide is a horrendous crime universally condemned from all ethical, juridical and moral standpoints. However, legislation on infanticide foresees mitigating circumstances for infanticidal mothers, with sentences by far disproportionate to the ...
Kreshnik Myftari, Gentian Vyshka
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A critical assessment of the evidence for selective female infanticide as a cause of the Viking Age
Groundings, 2018 There currently exists in the study of Viking archaeology a strong support for the theory, popularised by Barrett (2015), that selective female infanticide in the Late Scandinavian Iron Age to Early Viking Age resulted in the sudden expansion of ...
Edward Stewart
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Sex, size, and dependent young influence how brown bears select habitat relative to salmon streams
Global Ecology and ConservationTo survive and reproduce, animals must balance resource acquisition with mortality avoidance and thus should maximize food intake while minimizing risk.
Sarah L. Schooler +3 more
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Regulatory evolution of the crime of infanticide
, 2020 : The objective of the present study consists of the juridic-anthropological analysis of the infanticide, a phenomenon that nowadays is highly existent within the context of crime-settings.
Chessa, Francesca +5 more
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US AND THE OTHERS: NOTION OF PERSON IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS DEBATES ABOUT INDIGENOUS INFANTICIDE
Espaço Ameríndio, 2014 This essay reflects upon the contrasting conceptions of personhood which pervade the legal debate surrounding indigenous infanticide. For the defenders of the Muwaji Law - as the Project of Law 1057/07 became known, which proposes the criminalization of ...
Marlise Mirta Rosa
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Filial cannibalism in the Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)
The European Zoological JournalFilial and sibling cannibalism have never been documented in Black Storks (Ciconia nigra). We gathered information on 34 breeding events in 10 Black Stork nests from Estonia (three nests), Hungary (two nests), Poland (two nests) and Spain (three nests ...
L. S. Cano-Alonso +8 more
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Rising incidence of feticide, neonaticide, and infanticide in Pakistan: An emerging crisis
Global PediatricsFeticide, neonaticide, and infanticide are serious crimes under the law; however, they remain prevalent in South Asian countries, including Pakistan.
Muneeb Saifullah +6 more
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