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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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The prohibition of the use of force is a cornerstone of the modern international legal system and an "archetypal" and "conspicuous" example of <i>jus cogens</i> norms.
Izolda Takacs
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Concept, Applicability and Classification of Belarus Republic Civil Law Peremptory Norms
, 2013 The study of norms of one of the law branches – civil law – is presented. The attention is focused on the fact that the structure of civil law includes rather large number of peremptory law norms along with provisional rules.
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Corporate human rights obligations of investors in recent investment agreements: The progressive hardening process of CSR clauses. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Francis Maïnkade B.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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Improving Construction Industrialization Practices from a Socio-Technical System Perspective: A Hong Kong Case. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Jin X, Shen GQP, Ekanayake EMAC.
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Adversarialism in the Family Courts in Child Arrangements Cases in England and Wales
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Most of the discussion of adversarialism has taken place in the context of criminal justice and it is often assumed that family courts are not adversarial, particularly in child arrangements cases where the stated focus is the future welfare of children.
Mandy Burton, Rosemary Hunter
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