1. The reason of topic selection
RightofSexualminority has been an issue in western countries, and now it comes up on surface in Korean society, too. A Korean gay film director published that he is going to get married with his gay partner, even though it is not allowedlegally. Also, Korean congresshas been discussing about prohibition on gender discrimination. In this project, we have been t
of how when rape victims go to court what they were wearing when they were raped is often scrutinized as if what they wore could some-how justify being raped).
The veil is forced on women in many countries under the influence of Islam, either legally or under cultural and social pressure. In States where women have no civil rights whatsoever and are treated as subhuman, forcing women to wear the
Rights Watch defines "honor killings" as follows:
Honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assaul
of caring for her younger brother and sisters, largely in the hope of winning the approval of her parents. To at large extent this pattern of taking care of others has extended throughout her life.
8. ‘playing doctor’ -> she extremely felt guilty and ashamed. Repressed sexuality
9. Difficulty in social relationship. Although she wanted the approval of others, she was not willing to compromi
are liable to penal servitude or even life imprisonment in jail; that they will repeal the statute of limitations on the crime ofsexual abuse; that additional or worse punishment can be inflicted on professors or workers of facilities for handicapped or disabled individuals; and that they will adopt resolutions to prevent human rights violation, such as sexual abuse, on disabled individuals.
of movements against honor killing in Islamic countries is continuously occurring nowadays. And people in today have become no longer conservative and passive. Even though still minority people are making an action for a change and their results are still insufficient enough to make a change, it is a huge difference compared to the past.
1. Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch (KWRW)
The Kurdish W
rights violation: child labor and child slavery. The six-month long intercontinental March took off from Philippines in mid-January 1998, culminating in Geneva to coincide with the Debate Session of the ILO on the Draft Convention on Child Right.
It will be very helpful for preventing child labor if you refer to this web site. http://circle.winrock.org/
2.Sexual abuse
Few weeks
1. Definition and Types of the Veil
1. 1 Definition of the Veil
Veil is a decoration for showcase or protection. And it hides the face, head and whole body. Most of the scholars, veil has seen to be derived from Mesopotamia and Persia, and is one that existed from the most ancient in the women's clothes. According to Korean, it is considered to the production of cotton, but that made of various
1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
Child Abuse
What is the child abuse?
In the children welfare law
‘child abuse is act by adult to interfere with normal development of children.’
What is the extent problem?
Physical abuse
Emotional abuse
Sexual abuse
Neglect and abandon
What is the physical abuse?
the nonaccidental infliction of physical injury to a child
For example, kicking, hacking, electric shock, or ha