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The Magna Carta of Women (R.A. 7910) is the Philippines comprehensive women's human rights law. The Magna Carta of Women is found to be consistent with Rawlsian notions of justice, particularly when it undertakes inequality evaluation in primary goods. Identity-based inequality evaluation is...
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This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social … rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development … related diseases. The paper concludes that global health governance is characterized by a combination of moral values and …
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health continue to be denied. The conclusion draws attention to crippling disjunctures between different facets of post …
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This paper analyzes empirically whether the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a country. Measuring commitments to the CEDAW based on...
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Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women's rights in the economic and social dimensions. Using panel data from 150 countries over the 1981-2008 period, we find that social globalization positively affects both women's...
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Using longitudinal and biomarker data from the China Family Panel Studies and the China Health and Nutrition Survey …, this study examines the association between the type of domestic cooking fuel and the health of women aged ≥16 in rural … LNG have a significantly lower probability of chronic or acute diseases and are more likely to report better health. Even …
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We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and … worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we consider – i.e. general self-assessed health but also more specific … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …
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