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rates of violent deaths of women in the world, by 2021, there were reported 318 violent deaths of women. Honduras is both a … source and transit country for human trafficking, with women being the most affected by it. The COVID-19 pandemic has …
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El Salvador has a long history of political and social challenges, including a 12-year civil war that ended in 1992. The country has struggled with high levels of crime, poverty, and inequality, which have hindered its economic and social development. The service sector is an important component...
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. Guatemala has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world, with violent deaths of women increasing from 1.3 per 100 …,000 women in 2020 to 1.6 per 100,000 women in 2021, resulting in 527 femicides reported in 2021 and 534 in 2022, and 69 … adolescent girls, indigenous women, those who have experienced adolescent pregnancies, early unions or marriages, women and girls …
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gender parity, but violence against women remains a significant problem in the country. As the COVID-19 pandemic has … exacerbated the problem of gender-based violence, women's labor force participation rate reduced by 10 percentage points as well …
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines comprises a main island, Saint Vincent, and thirty-two other islands, islets, and cays in the archipelago of the Grenadines (SVG). It is a unicameral democracy, with fifteen seats for elected members in the House of Representatives. Historically, much of the...
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The law in Saint Lucia provides for the same legal status and rights for women as for men, requires equal pay for equal … work, and provides equal treatment of men and women for family property, nationality, and inheritance. Its economy is … poor, corroborating the challenges women face in the labor market. This profile looks at gender-based violence (GBV) in …
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In Brazil, violence against women and girls (VAWG), which is a manifestation of gender-based violence (GBV), is a major … end violence against women, including health, social assistance, public security, and justice services, were stalled …
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intimate abuse both as victims and as perpetrators. While there is a tendency to view women's experiences as victims of …
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This paper examines the theory behind and some examples of the relationships between gender, language, cognition and … paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … argue that there is an inherent dilemma in engaging with legal constructs which continue to negate women’s understandings of …
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overwhelmingly consists of young, physically attractive, highly sexualized women whose purpose is largely decorative, primarily to … cigarettes. They are restricted in gender role to traditional notions of femininity, and rarely appear in groups. They even are …
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