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...Deema Kaedbey; Nadine Naber Abstract This essay reflects upon the themes of collaborative research, intersectional feminist activism, and social movements against corruption and sectarianism in the context of Lebanon. The authors focus on the summer of 2015 when protesters filled the streets...

... to also represent another kind of plenty: individual greed and official corruption in the distribution of resources. As is true with so many large-scale relief efforts in the face of disaster, including, most recently, aid to the U.S. victims of Hurricane Katrina, unscrupulous practices, particularly...

..., articulate, and staunchly nationalist government employee Beatrice Okoh's visit to His Excellency the President's private party, which is essentially a gathering of supporters of his corrupt regime. Here Beatrice meets Lou, an American journalist who wishes to talk to her about the "women's angle...

... the corrupt Antiguan government officials alongside foreign capital. Many critics believe that Kincaid’s purpose in doing so is to fully humanize and fill with complexity the population of the Caribbean (previously dehumanized by slavery and currently limited to service jobs by racism) and neutralize...

... in the bedroom where the sheik plans to have sex with her. In addition to the Arab procurers, Bryan contends with corrupt European men: the French policeman Jean Claude, who takes bribes from the traffickers, and the brutal Albanian traffickers. The rescuers, however, are all white men except for Jorge, who...

... people identify their problems, the causes and possible solutions. They then make connections between their own personal actions and the problems they witness in the environment and in society. They learn that our world is confronted with a litany of woes: corruption, violence against women and children...

... Haiti for four hundred years unequal distribution by neo-liberal policies and organizations that took more than they gave two nations in one unequal distribution from succeeding irresponsible governments that never represented the people unequal distribution by corrupt civil servants who dominated...

.... In this instance, Batra, though a social science lens, examines the political and feminist implications of polygamy in Onwueme's play, which was published in 1988. The subject lends itself to analyzing corruption in the Nigerian polity, the place of myth and tradition in assessing the pre-colonial past, and gender...

... and structural adjustment” (97). What is more, Shoemaker notes, Kincaid is equally critical of Antiguan peoples complicity with colonialism’s erasures, writing “ . . . they are governed by corrupt men, . . . [and] these corrupt men have given their country away to corrupt foreigners” (Kincaid [1988] 2001 : 50...

... for the island (which a separation of powers analysis would suggest it had no legitimate ability to refuse to allocate) to hiring friends running “companies” with no employees to rebuild the electrical grid. 2 But while the Trump administration used authoritarian and corrupt tactics to withdraw support from...

... journalist, try to find the answer and to my horror I found that the flesh trade existed in my country, in my generation, in my world. There was the KEYNOTE CONVERSATION TRAFFICKING SEX 177 local village procurer, who could be a neighbor or an uncle. There were the transporters, the agents, the corrupt...

... greater numbers entail increased influence and prestige for the leader. The backdrop to all this, from the mid-1960s onward, was Nigeria’s corrupt military state. Nigeria is a federal state that was organized into three regions after independence in 1960. The Northern Region’s population is greater...

... candidates from the opposition by accusing them of being corrupt, dishonest, or opportunistic, but the only candidate he described as mad was me, a woman. The theory of chaos has become a part of world science. The minds of women and men have started to assimilate the idea of chaos as being the other side...

... were anything but marginal. A similar theme marks the eyewitness account of Elisabeth Armstrong, who visited northern India in the wake of the tsunami disaster in 2004. Writing about the politics of aid efforts in her "The Tsunami's Windfall," she notes how attendant charges of corruption by the donor...

... from the kind of out-of-place grin mamas warn girls to get away from. But, Dee-Dee nudges me forward, I muster a thanks, look down, ball up feeling corrupt-like the dollar bill crammed in my hand for keeping quiet when she followed her boyfriend to the backroom to talk for a minute. I kept quiet...

... the uninformed are at peace with these golden idols, for the sensitive Claudia they literally make strange bedfellows. The protagonist also alludes to the subliminal impact ofRaggedy Ann and other such representations in conceptions ofblack female identity. Able to corrupt dreams, the doll's influence...

... left a public event in downtown Rio—an event entitled “Young Black Women Who Are Changing Power Structures” (“Jovens Negras Movendo as Estruturas”). 9 What we do know is that Marielle was a threat to many violent, corrupt, and powerful factions—she was herself determined to change power...

..., Presente!” talk that she offered at the Franco memorial event held at Smith College on March 21, 2018, “Marielle was a threat to so many violent, corrupt, and powerful factions” because she was an outspoken human rights advocate for and organizer of Rio’s poorest and most vulnerable. Thus this issue closes...

..., labor for the privilege of the meal in the household). If something were free and easy, it should invite suspicion, not delight. This is something the immigrant parent knows; this is something Father knew when he won a Fulbright Scholarship to Hawai‘i but a corrupt government official had Father’s name...

..., often violently, and subjected to the criminal-justice system as criminals and not victims. It is taken from them when they are required to work "collaboratively" with law enforcement in order to get legal permission to stay in the United States. Self. determination is also corrupted when trafficking...