Rights. Rights? What rights do men have? Are these rights universal? At what point should the...

Rights

Rights?

• What rights do men have?• Are these rights universal?• At what point should the international

community intervene when rights are being abused?

• Do these rights extend to women?• At what point should the international

community intervene when women’s rights are being abused?

Gender Equality

• Gender Inequality Index (GII) an index for measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report

Review

Gini Index– income inequality (measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption expenditure among individuals or households within an economy)

GII Index

MDG

Kyrgyzstan Brides

• http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/kyrgyzstan/  

Review Concepts

Break-up of the Soviet UnionSectors of the EconomyCore/peripheryCustom

• Should the international community intervene to protect the rights of the Kyrgyzstan people?

India Missing Girls

• http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/04/the_missing_gir.html

Review Concepts

•DTM•Population Pyramid•TFR•Rostow’s Development Model•Gender Ratio•HDI•MDG•Women’s Enfranchisement

• Which family bears the cost of the wedding? What are the consequences?

• Is this Genocide?• Should the international community

intervene?• What should the government policy be?

• Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (For full text click here)

• "Article II:  In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

• Article III:  The following acts shall be punishable: • (a) Genocide;

(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;(d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. "

Tunisia article

• How do the rights of women differ in Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia?

Arab Spring article

• Why were the rights women achieved in the Arab Spring not long lasting?

• Will the short lived gains result in a long term gain?

Asia’s Lonely Hearts

• Unintended consequences of women’s freedoms moving faster than women’s rights

Review Concepts

Gateway CityGlobalizationLDCForced migration

• Positive impact of supporting women’s rights?

Pakistan Teacher article