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Intro -- book title -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Living in interesting times -- 2. Birth and death -- 3. Poverty, development and work -- 4. Blogging and shopping: woman as global consumer -- 5. Power, politics and the law -- 6. Education- a matter of life and death -- 7. Canaries of the eco-crisis: women and the environment -- 8. A devastating toll: violence against women -- 9. Marriage, sexuality and old age -- 10. Conclusion: our president is a woman -- Contacts and Resources -- Index.

"The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, is the worlds most widely and most rapidly ratified international convention. The Convention was adopted partly in an attempt to set international norms and establish a universal standard for the concepts of childhood and child, promote a particular nature of childhood for children everywhere and to set a universal approach for protecting all children around the world. The Convention was different from its predecessors as it recognised children as autonomous individuals and holders of rights, as subjects rather than objects of international law. In this way, then, the Convention marked a turning point in the perception of children in international law and policy. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have a significant and positive impact on the lives of all children, which was one of the main guiding principles behind its creation, this has not happened in many parts of the world. With specific regards to Africa, all countries have struggled to put in place the minimum standards to ensure childrens rights and well being as a result of socio-economic factors, religion, culture, lack of political will, amongst others. This is particularly concerning for a continent where the proportion of the population under the age of 18 is the highest in the world. This book assesses the progress the Convention has made in the past two decades in ten different African countries as well as in the region more generally. It considers the implementation of the Convention both in terms of policy and practice and its impact on the lived experiences of children in societies across the continent, focusing on specific themes such as HIV/AIDS, education and disability, child labour, witchcraft stigmatisation, armed conflict and religion. The volume provides critical analysis of the progress of the Convention and identifies concrete ways forward for the better implementation of this treaty in the various social, cultural and political contexts that exist in Africa"--

This book presents current research on new developments and policies in the American Indian population in the United States. Topics discussed in this compilation include the administrative process by which groups may be acknowledged as Indian tribes; federal funding for non-federally recognized tribes; an examination of the Department of Homeland Security efforts to coordinate with tribal governments to address border security threats and vulnerabilities on Indian reservations; and federal agencies focus on fighting crime in Indian country and strengthening the bond between federal and tribal

Introduction -- Corruption, anti-corruption measures and disqualification -- An overview of procurement regulation, anti-corruption and disqualification policy in the jurisdictions -- The offences and the requirement for a conviction for disqualification -- Procedural issues affecting disqualification -- Disqualifying entities and the scope of disqualification -- Investigations -- The disqualification of persons related to a corrupt supplier -- The effect of disqualification on existing contracts -- Derogating from disqualification -- Remedies for affected suppliers.