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Human Rights Policy Paper: Rape As A Tactic Of War, Sarah Fitzgerald
Human Rights Policy Paper: Rape As A Tactic Of War, Sarah Fitzgerald
Global Studies Student Scholarship
This paper reports on rape used as a tactic of war, outlining the scope of the problem and introducing policy options to address the issue on a global scale. Policy options targeted at relief services include increasing direct aid through funding fistula surgeries, building rural hospitals, and providing skills training for women awaiting surgery. Additional policy options addressing the problem at its root include legislative changes to stop impunity at the International Criminal Court, revising the Convention on Genocide to include sex and gender, utilization of devices such as the Rape aXe, and changing the culture of misogyny through educational …
Correlations Between Language, Identity, And Discrimination Among Spanish Speakers In Providence, Katherine Rennie
Correlations Between Language, Identity, And Discrimination Among Spanish Speakers In Providence, Katherine Rennie
Global Studies Student Scholarship
This study examines how discrimination based on language hinges on the importance of language to one’s personal identity. In order to understand the connections between discrimination and language, the literature on discrimination and its various components is investigated. Scholars’ findings concerning the connection between language and identity are then examined. A discussion will follow of the neuropsychology of language and of the scientific argument that human language came about in response to an evolutionary need for symbolic communication. These themes create a framework for the following study. In order to understand the experience of discrimination as a result of language …