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Women’s rights under universal protection and international human rights treaties: dialogues between global and local

open access: yesRevista Videre, 2018
The main international human rights documents establish gender equality as a right to be enforced. Nevertheless, this equality has remained purely formal.
Lara Santos Zangerolame Taroco   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Universal Women\u27s Rights Since 1970: The Centrality of Autonomy and Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article reviews the development of universal women’s human rights since 1970. It begins by discussing how the international feminist movement influenced the development of women’s legal human rights, and continues by reviewing three debates in the ...
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
core   +1 more source

Liquid biopsy epigenetics: establishing a molecular profile based on cell‐free DNA

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) fragments in plasma from cancer patients carry epigenetic signatures reflecting their cells of origin. These epigenetic features include DNA methylation, nucleosome modifications, and variations in fragmentation. This review describes the biological properties of each feature and explores optimal strategies for harnessing cfDNA ...
Christoffer Trier Maansson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Journey of Women from Victim to Peace-Maker: Women, Insurgency and Northeast India

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2018
The sufferings of women in any insurgency movement have been the focus of many women's rights and human rights groups in present times. Studies have demonstrated that women have to suffer pain as mothers, sisters, daughters, caregivers and victims during
Piyali Dutta
doaj   +1 more source

Civil Rights News [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Volume 1-2012 of Civil Rights News by the AFL-CIO Department of Civil, Human and Women\u27s Rights. This Issue covers: Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Immigration, LGBT Developments, Women’s Rights, and additional ...
AFL-CIO
core   +1 more source

Dual targeting of RET and SRC synergizes in RET fusion‐positive cancer cells

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Despite the strong activity of selective RET tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), resistance of RET fusion‐positive (RET+) lung cancer and thyroid cancer frequently occurs and is mainly driven by RET‐independent bypass mechanisms. Son et al. show that SRC TKIs significantly inhibit PAK and AKT survival signaling and enhance the efficacy of RET TKIs in ...
Juhyeon Son   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic headscarves and female circumcision: Unveiling the threat posed by Islam to human rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper is, in part, a response to the NZPGLeJ Editor-in-Chief Herman Salton’s article,“‘Veiled Threats?’ Islam, Headscarves and Freedom of Religion in France and the United States”, which was published in the first issue of this journal.
Williamson, Myra Elsie Jane Bell
core   +1 more source

Realising women’s human rights in Malaysia : the EMPOWER report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Why do activist groups representing some of society’s most marginalised employ legalistic forms of “rights talk” when the reality of securing rights via the judicial system is almost unimaginable?
Elias, Juanita
core   +1 more source

Cis‐regulatory and long noncoding RNA alterations in breast cancer – current insights, biomarker utility, and the critical need for functional validation

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The noncoding region of the genome plays a key role in regulating gene expression, and mutations within these regions are capable of altering it. Researchers have identified multiple functional noncoding mutations associated with increased cancer risk in the genome of breast cancer patients.
Arnau Cuy Saqués   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The "First daughter" effect: Human rights advocacy and attitudes toward gender equality in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
International concern for the human rights of Afghan women has spiked since the Taliban consolidated power in Afghanistan in fall 2021. Yet little is known about how to effectively advocate for women's human rights under this new context.
Kristina Becvar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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