Category: Youth Articles
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Gender and Conflict in Syria
Although many cases from different countries such as Iraq, Palestine, and Bosnia demonstrate the impact of armed conflicts on women, less is documented and known in terms of the effect of the Syrian civil war on women and children who got displaced because of the conflict.
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Sexual Violence: A Campaign Against the Bosniaks
During the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, Serb forces captured and imprisoned between 25,000 and 40,000 women in rape camps, permitting their release only after confirming the impossibility of safe abortion upon pregnancy. The rapes and enforced impregnations that occurred in these camps were a way to assert, control, and define, the criteria of membership in one…
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The Feminist Movement and Neoliberalism in Lebanon: A New Route to Explore
This paper will seek to extract different perspectives of neoliberalism that I, as an author, agree with, and match them with applications in the Arab World’s context. I had originally intended on exploring how specific policies unique to the neoliberal agenda, particularly the Lebanese neoliberal context, affect and, more specifically, hinder the feminist movement’s advancements.
