HREQ 3010 Lecture Notes - Female Genital Mutilation, Imperial Japanese Army

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 3010
• Professor: Antonio Torres- Ruiz

Document Summary

Ongoing human rights violations against women and children: new slavery, bonded. Labour, sex trade, child marriage, fgm, war crimes. The 1979 un convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against. The 1989 un convention on the rights of the child. The total control of one person by another for the purpose of economic exploitation. Estimate of enslaved people today: 27 million. Bonded labour concentrated in southeast asia, northern and western africa, and parts of. Also in brickmaking, mining, prostitution, gem working and jewellery making, cloth and. Links between militarization and the dehumanization of women"s and men"s bodies. A social and economic problem of global dimensions: north and south co- A social and economic problem of global dimensions: north and south co- responsibilities. responsibilities. Ongoing sexual exploitation of women and children. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=bg3kc1f5jmk&feature=related.