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Historical development of norms and advocacy to advance the human rights of women - Methods for research and practice on the human rights of women - Human rights issues and violations in the private sphere -- Gender-specific challenges in protecting and fulfilling social and economic human rights - Benefits and limitations of legal strategies to realise the human rights of women - Navigating the nexus of religion, culture and the human rights of women -Tensions between global norms and advocacy and national and local approaches to the human rights of women

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination

This article contributes to cross-disciplinary engagement with the idea of transnationality through a discussion of transnational feminisms. In particular, it reviews and responds to some of the more critical readings of the women's human rights paradigm and its role in underpinning, or not, emancipatory transnational feminisms in a context of increasingly fragmenting globalisation. The author considers two broad categories of critical readings of transnational women's human rights: anti-universalist and praxis-oriented. This includes discussions of recent feminist articulations of the 'cultural legitimacy thesis' and 'vernacularisation' and of obstacles to contesting the oppressions of neo-liberal globalisation through human rights feminisms. Ultimately, the author argues that the emancipatory possibilities of human rights-oriented transnational feminisms reside in dialogic, solidarity-building feminist praxis tied to transnational processes of counter-hegemonic (re)interpretation and (re)claiming of human rights from previously excluded positions.

The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the 'clash of civilizations' thesis; the expansion of postmodern critiques of Enlightenment rationality to encompass questions of religion; and sustained critiques of the 'secularization thesis'. Conflicts between the claims of women's equality and the claims of religion are well-documented vis-à-vis all major religions and across all regions. The ongoing moral panic about the presence of Islam in Europe, marked by a preoccupation with policing Muslim women's dress, reminds us of the centrality of women and gender power relations in the interrelation of religion, culture and the state. Added to postmodern and other critiques of the secular-religious binary, most sociological research now contradicts the equation of modernization with secularization. This article focuses on the challenges that these developments pose to politically oriented feminist thinking and practice. It argues that non-oppressive feminist responses require a new critical engagement with secularism as a normative principle in democratic, multicultural societies. To inform this process, the author maps and links discussions across different fields of feminist scholarship, in the sociology of religion and in political theory. She organizes the main philosophical traditions and fault lines that form the intellectual terrain at the intersection of feminism, religion and politics in two broad groups: feminist critiques of the Enlightenment critique of religion; and feminist scholarship at the critical edges of the Enlightenment tradition. The author argues that notwithstanding the fragmented nature of feminist debates in this area, common ground is emerging across different politically oriented approaches: all emphasize 'democracy' and the values that underpin it as the larger discursive frame in which the principle of secularism can be redefined with emancipatory intent in a neo-secular age.

section 1. Identity, religion, migration, and multiculture -- section 2. Contesting religious subjectivities -- section 3. Religion, law, and human rights -- section 4. Religion, states, and civil society -- section 5. Researching religion, constructing knowledge : theoretical revisions and methodological challenges.

The subjective nature of the definitions and lack of guidance under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and the Local Government Sanitary Services Act 1964 (Ireland) have led to inconsistent applications of the Acts and a reluctance to enforce. Dereliction has been a blight on the scenic beauty and attractiveness of town and countryside in Ireland, taking away from their appeal to inhabitants, investors and tourists. The Derelict Sites Act 1990 was introduced to empower local authorities in the remediation of problem sites. Part 8 of the Act requires that Local Authorities keep a register of derelict sites. The register is used to apply a levy on lands and to encourage owners to remediate sites. Part 10 of the Act requires that Local Authorities take reasonable measures to ensure that sites in their functional area does not become or continue to be Derelict. Dangerous structures pose a problem to local authorities and many sites initially start out as Derelict Sites become dangerous over time posing a risk to property and persons. Local Authorities are liable for the safety of public areas and steps must be taken to ensure that they are made safe promptly. A recent amalgamation of North and South Tipperary County Councils have highlighted problems with the reporting and recording of Derelict Sites and Dangerous Structures due to problems interpreting the definition of what is derelict and what is dangerous when sites are assessed by different professionals. The lack of uniform standards for site assessment can lead to problems with the management of sites, they are difficult to compare and rank for prioritising sites for future action and remediation. Comprehensive research into the area of dereliction and dangerous structures was undertaken and set of criteria produced to identify what is 'Derelict' and what is 'Dangerous' based on a critical combination of site indicators, group decisions and geographical data. It is possible to quantify dereliction and danger by using a web and smartphone application and Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) software. The generation of standardized sites scores from the data input using the smartphone app combined with weighted thematic maps in a GIS environment allow problem sites to be ranked in order of priority for remediation works. A GIS-based web application offers an effective solution to the above problem by removing the subjectivity from the definition of derelict sites and dangerous structures

This study aims to analyse traffic collisions in the Greater Dublin Region between the period 2006-2012, using GIS to identify hotspots and examine the relationship between collisions and a range of contributory factors including vehicular speeds, traffic volume, road curvature, road category and distance from intersection that could enable prediction of traffic collisions. To this end, Road Safety Authority (RSA) collision data for Dublin Region geocoded as point events, road profiles, traffic flow characteristics on which these occur are spatially merged using ArcGIS and FME software to establish if a significant relationship exists between collision frequencies on road links and the specific link characteristics and traffic flow characteristics. The road network has been divided into uniform segments and the collision frequencies on each of these noted. Traffic collisions are rare and random events and often a major proportion of segments would have no instance of collisions, thus following a Negative Binomial distribution. The outputs from GIS exercise are tested through SPSS software using Negative Binomial distribution for modelling the relationship between different variables. This paper comes at a significant time where efforts are being made to improve the safety of roads within the European Union [1]. Every year, road collisions cause human fatalities together with huge financial loss which can be significantly reduced by improving road safety through the enforcement of traffic laws and road user compliance. By identifying the cause effect relationship and the spatial locations most prone to collisions, prioritized regulatory and safety interventions can be put in place to reduce the collisions on the roads.