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ERIC Number: EJ811548
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Sep
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0020-8701
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Gender Aspects of Human Security
Moussa, Ghada
International Social Science Journal, v59 ns1 p81-100 Sep 2008
The chapter deals with the gender dimensions in human security through focusing on the relationship between gender and human security, first manifested in international declarations and conventions, and subsequently evolving in world women conferences. It aims at analysing the various gender aspects in its relation to different human security dimensions. Gender equality is influenced and affected by many social institutions: the state, the market, the family (kinship) and the community. Human security also takes gender aspects. The author focuses on the dimensions in human security that influence gender equality. These are violence as a threat to human security and negative influences in achieving gender equality, the needs approach, poverty alleviation and considering women as among the most vulnerable groups in the society. Raising the capabilities of women is essential in achieving gender equality, thus security and participation is needed to guarantee equality and to realise gender equality.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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