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Femicide In Bolivia After Law 348, Adán Martínez
Femicide In Bolivia After Law 348, Adán Martínez
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This project explores the concept of femicide from a unique perspective, by analyzing the effect that Law #348: The Internal Law to Guarantee Women a Life Without Violence after a year that it passed during the Morales' administration. I examine two crucial questions to this study: 1) How do we explain the paradox that although this law has passed, today we see an increase in the number of femicides in Bolivia? 2) What are the obstacles that prevent that application of law 348 3) What can we do to put a stop to femicides? I demonstrate that several factors like …
Human Rights Infringements In Brazil’S Penitentiary System Understood Through Access To Healthcare, Sara Morris
Human Rights Infringements In Brazil’S Penitentiary System Understood Through Access To Healthcare, Sara Morris
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Brazil has a reputation of being home to some of the worst penitentiary conditions worldwide, eventually leading the United Nations to make an appeal to the Brazilian government in 2003 to analyze their systems and make necessary improvements. The poor conditions and lack of access to legal counsel, living space, and specifically healthcare, cause riots and uprisings within prisons that in the past have lead to death of prisoners and guards. Prisons serve a very specific purpose in society, and according to most social theorists that is to reform, not to torture. In Brazil there is no capital punishment, so …