Category: Youth Articles
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Not A Trophy Woman
Throughout history and up until today, minorities are known to be the first victims of armed conflict. In particular, human trafficking is considered to be inevitable during wars where women are highly targeted for sexual purposes. In fact, abducted women are being dreaded physically and emotionally by continuous and daily vicious rape introducing the tragic…
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Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Environments Through Media and Communication: A Path Towards Healing?
This paper explores the ever-increasing influence that media and communication can have on issues of gender-based violence in times of war. It firstly dissects how the media, whether through state or non-state actors, can contribute to aggravating gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict environments. On the other hand, the article also posits the productive positive…
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Global Warming: A Gender Inequality Warning
Climate change exacerbates already existing gender inequalities where the burden on women is much greater than that on men. Previous data have shown that women and children are 14 times more likely to be affected during a disaster as compared to men. Hence, this paper tackles the effects of climate change on gender, in specific…
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Sexism in the Medical Field
Women are no strangers to discrimination. However, it is rare that we find the medical field behind such inequality. Sexism is incredibly prevalent in medicine and medical research, and it goes much beyond preconceived notions of women and misogynistic remarks. This kind of sexism directly threatens the health and even mortality of female patients. We…
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Gender Inequality in The Workplace
It was common knowledge before to think that a woman has no place in an office because she lacked the education needed, but now almost every female has access to education and can provide for themselves. A woman is now more than capable of doing a man’s job, but they are still not given the…
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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.
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Gender in Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Dilemma
This paper introduces the concept of gender in relation to gendered security problems in a continuing cycle of pre-conflict, conflict, and post-conflict settings. Feminist research has established that power dynamics often result in women’s security problems being distinct from those of men in conflict and post-conflict situations. This differential impact, coupled with the short-term/long-term impact…
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Female Labor Participation in Jordan
Nicolas Nassar Female participation in the labor force has been a compelling issue throughout history. It is also a very dynamic topic in all countries independent of that development level. It’s because the place of women in work-life can be considered a brand-new subject compared to that of men in all societies. Female labor force…