This research paper critically analyses the controversies surrounding the politics of power in gender relations within the Roman Catholic Church. Historically, the unequal power structure between the different genders (male and female) in the Hebrew Bible relegated women and placed them in positions of objective powerlessness. And despite God's plan for equality between men and women through Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:28) and the fight for women's emancipation by various advocacy groups and individuals, which has led to a huge progress in the liberation of women in the religious, cult...

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One of the most widespread approaches was embodied in the "power and control wheel, " a graphic representation of the theory that violence takes many forms such as intimidation, minimizing the significance of the violence, denying responsibility for the violence, isolating the victim, exercising male privilege, and using emotional forms of abuse (see Pence and Paymar 1983). The wheel was developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (D.A.I.P) in Duluth, Minnesota in the early 1980s and widely used in batterer's intervention programs such as the one I studied in Hilo and women...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet she's not charged for homicide. "There were 1.21 million abortions performed in the United States in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. ...

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A study done by Vietnam Labor Watch reported on the abuses, working conditions, and health practices in Nike plants. ... There have been numerous accounts of physical abuse at these factories. ... Cases of abuse in Nike factories overseas have also been sexual. ... Women workers have complained of constant sexual harassment from foreign supervisors. ... In 1993, another television network, CBC, let it be known that workers in Nike factories suffered from all kinds of abuses, both physical and sexual, along with the low wages these workers were receiving (2). ...

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Inmates have the right to be free from sexual crimes, including sexual harassment. ... The 9th Federal Court of Appeals recognized that female inmates, as a class, have experienced significant sexual abuse and they are therefore given protection from male officers touching them during searches. ...

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INTRODUCTION The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) was established in 2006 to promote and protect human rights across the globe. A mechanism known as the Universal Periodic Review was created by the HRC as a tool to assess each member states human rights situation. This essay will look at the UPRs first cycle across several member states, analysing effectiveness of the mechanism if any at all. TOPIC 1: Historical Context It can be said the body of Human Rights was first identified in the early eighteenth century, drawn up in response to the experiences of the Second World War. Pos...

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