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Record Nr.

UNINA9911108441803321

Autore

Gilligan Emma <1967->

Titolo

Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / / Emma Gilligan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-34849-5

1-134-34850-9

1-280-23159-9

9786610231591

0-203-34872-9

9780203348727

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 11

Classificazione

86.81

Disciplina

323/.092

B

Soggetti

Human rights - Russia (Federation)

Human rights - Soviet Union

Human rights workers - Russia (Federation)

Human rights workers - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times.

Sommario/riassunto

Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work for human rights, eventually becoming chairman of the Soviet Human Rights Committee and chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, in which positions he was extremely influential in framing human rights provisions in post-Communist



Russia. He subsequently took President Yeltsin to task for

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911134171303321

Autore

Kabeer Naila

Titolo

Gender and social protection strategies in the informal economy / / Naila Kabeer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-138-66263-1

1-317-80989-0

1-315-81619-9

1-317-80990-4

9781315816197

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Disciplina

305.42091724

305.4091724

Soggetti

Women - Developing countries - Social conditions

Social security - Developing countries

Informal sector (Economics) - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Boxes and Tables; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1. Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives; 2. Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of Vulnerability; 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework and Empirical Insights; 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education: Disrupting the Inter-generational Transmission of Poverty; 5. Alternative Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection

6. Financial Services for Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods7. Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age; 8. The Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal Economy; 9. Towards a 'Generative' Model of



Social Protection: Making the Links to Development Policy; References and Select Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The vast majority of the world's working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legislation. This book examines the constraints and barriers which continue to confine women to these forms of work and what this implies for their ability to provide for themselves and their families and to cope with insecurity. It develops a framework of analysis that integrates gender, life course and livel