Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Academic, 2008 - 208 pages Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. |
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... girls are " missing " , with the greatest excess mortality rate in girls younger than 4 years ' ( ibid .: 1236 ; Sen 2003 ) . Two UN reports , in 2000 and 2005 , noted similar findings ( UNFPA 2000 : 25 ; UNFPA 2005 : 2 ) . It ... is ...
... girls ( The Times , 18 December 2006 : 3 ) . Furthermore , the practice of preferring a male child to a female child extends after birth and throughout early years . In other words , even when a girl is not killed at birth because of ...
... girls : Adoptions are estimated to account for about half ... Some girls whose births went unreported are presumably living with their parents , but the inability to estimate the size of this phenomenon hampers estimates of female ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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