Fearful that her ailing father will be drafted into the Chinese military, Mulan (Ming-Na Wen) takes his spot -- though, as a girl living under a patriarchal regime, she is technically unqualified to serve. She cleverly impersonates a man and goes off to train with fellow recruits....
One way women assisted in the war was moving into jobs that were previously vacated by men who were drafted into the war. Women also assisted in munitions factories. These are factories that make war materials. Women could have sewed uniforms or helped make weapons. These factories were the ...
Women struggled for decades to win the right to vote, but it’s taken even longer for all to be able to exercise it.
asylum law into conformity with international refugee law (as recognized in Cardoza-Fonseca); and (3) the purpose of the 1951 Convention to “ensure a single, universal standard” for refugee status, according great weight to UNHCR guidance in interpreting the Convention provides the best means ...
The Civil War had just ended four years earlier. While women were still decades away from getting the right to vote, educational opportunities for women were beginning to increase. January in Iowa was cold. But at Iowa Wesleyan University, two women, Hattie Briggs and Franc Rhoads, were out...
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Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this document called for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. This gathering set the agenda for the rest of the Women’s Movement long ago (Imbornoni). Over the next 100 years, many women played a part in ...
calling for independence.27 These negotiations continued without agreement until the controversial 'Heads of Agreement' memo was drafted and signed in London on 11 March 1981. Any sort of negotiated agreement between Belize and Guatemala on the basis of the 'Heads' was impossible. For Belize's (...
Pankhurst became active in the local women's suffrage movement, joining the Manchester Women's Suffrage Committee soon after her marriage. She later worked to promote the Married Women's Property Bill, which was drafted in 1882 by her husband. ...
Dreams of world peace are as old as wars. But as the women of Wales were recovering from World War I , they demanded peace in droves.Still sorrowing over the husbands, sons, and loved ones who fought in the war, in 1923 the Welsh League of Nations United (WLNU) drafted a petition...