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  2. Lysistrata - Wikipedia

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    Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. In contrast, Lysistrata is portrayed to be an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual and social responsibility. She has convened a meeting of women from various Greek city-states that are at war with each other. Soon after she confides in ...

  3. War Brides Act - Wikipedia

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    The act was meant to facilitate the immigration of women and children from Europe for five years after World War II. [3] The War Brides Act was passed for three main reasons: recognition of men's rights to have their wives and children with them, reward for military service and the principle of family unification. [4]

  4. Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in ...

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    The Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict was adopted by the United Nations in 1974 and went into force the same year. It was proposed by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, on the grounds that women and children are often the victims of wars, civil unrest, and other emergency situations that cause them to suffer "inhuman acts and ...

  5. U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security

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    An August 2012 Implementation Plan set priorities for implementation of the National Action Plan. [3] Full implementation of women, peace, and security objectives put forward by the U.S. National Action Plan has been limited by external challenges ranging from lack of political will among international partners to societal discrimination against women in countries around the world.

  6. Women and children first - Wikipedia

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    "Women and children first", known to a lesser extent as the Birkenhead drill, [1] [2] is an unofficial code of conduct and gender role whereby the lives of women and children were to be saved first in a life-threatening situation, typically abandoning ship, when survival resources such as lifeboats were limited.

  7. Dawes Rolls - Wikipedia

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    Most of the white people on the Dawes Rolls are noted as included due to marrying a member of the tribe and having Indian children. [2] The Dawes Rolls, though recognized as flawed, are still essential to the citizenship process of the Nations that include them in their laws.

  8. History of forced labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slave women were often raped by white overseers, planter's younger sons before they married, and other white men associated with the slaveholders. Some were sold into brothels outright. Plaçage, a formalized system of concubinage among slave women or free people of color, developed in Louisiana and particularly New Orleans by the 18th century.

  9. Cherokee military history - Wikipedia

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    As a result, the war helped bind the region's Indians and enhanced their communication and trade networks. The Cherokee became more closely integrated with the region's Indians and Europeans. The Tuscarora War began an English-Cherokee relationship which, despite occasional breakdowns, remained strong for much of the 18th century.