History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aids, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Female Genital Mutilation
3 Jan 2018
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Global protest in 1980s and 1990s and today. Awareness of sexual oppression and abuses is becoming a current topic and event, particularly on an international scale, we hear more of sexual abuses and oppressions in developed and developing world in last 30 years. Advent of feminism raised awareness of this, increased travel has made us more aware, more human rights organizations re concerned with these issues, and increased media (tv and internet) brings attention to abuses on a global level. Many organizations that rally behind a number of problems that affect men women and kids. Some issues: child sex trafficking, sex slavery, forced abortion, child brides, acid throwing and stoning immoral women. What we will focus on: hiv aids as a domestic and global issue, issues of female circumcision clitorectomy or called female genital mutilation (fgm, rape in context of war.
