Recognizing also that violence against women is rooted in historically unequal power relations between men and women,

Recognizing that domestic violence against women is, inter alia, a societal problem and a manifestation of unequal power relations between women and men,

Programmes aimed at the prevention and treatment of HIV AIDS cannot succeed without challenging the structures of unequal power relations between women and men.

Crises and profound disagreements are not new in the relations between these two unequal allies.

It also identified that the under representation of women in most levels of Government and the inequitable representation of women in the public arena often started with the unequal power relations within the family.

The situation is markedly different if parties with clearly unequal bargaining power contract with one another.

Gender based violence was an expression of unequal power relations between men and women. Eradicating it required modifying specific social and cultural patterns and eliminating harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage and honour crimes.

The concept of structural gender discrimination refers to forms of discrimination that ensue from the fact that the structure or organisation of society is built on gender stereotypes and hence sustains the existing unequal relations of power between the sexes.

These people are guided by the belief that international relations are relations of power, not law.

America the Unequal

Balancing hard power relations with governments with soft power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope.

Cultures that endorse low power distance expect and accept power relations that are more consultative or democratic.

Jara, critical of the unequal division of power in Chilean society, vocally supported Salvador Allende, who won the country's presidential election in 1970.

Hereditary power did not necessarily make for warm and open family relations.

Programmes for the prevention and treatment of the pandemic could not succeed without challenging the unequal power structures governing relationships between women and men.

For example, low power distance is associated with consultative political practices and income equity, whereas high power distance is correlated with unequal income distribution, as well as bribery and corruption in domestic politics.

This change, however, is also creating anxieties about shifting power relations among states.

Indeed, this vision of international relations clearly rests on building influence through military power.

It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.

Second, the draft resolution is unequal.

The existing power relations in the Middle East have indeed been permanently shaken and, indeed, revolutionized.

Combating violence against women requires changing the way gender roles and power relations articulated in society.

This unequal investment is neither equitable nor efficient.

In 2010, we will discover that neither has the power to keep US Chinese relations on track.

The unilateral overstretching of American power offers a chance for a new beginning in US European relations.

The idea that the US is a status quo power is a delusion of international relations experts.

Jara's way of seeing the world would deeply bother Pinochet's dictatorship, which sought stability in the unequal separation of power between the political and social elites and the lower classes.

Women's susceptibility to HIV is exacerbated by unequal power between women and men and the use of violence to sustain that imbalance, which limit women's ability to negotiate safe sex.

Therefore, equal treatment cannot be forced on unequal partners.

Subject matter Unequal remuneration of work performed by prisoners

But in the post Cold War period, economic growth by itself has contributed to altering global power relations.

For critics, it was considered essential to avoid, by all means, further institutionalization of current asymmetrical power relations.

Governments must invest in transport and communication networks counteract asymmetric information, externalities, and unequal bargaining power moderate financial panics and recessions and respond to popular demands for safety nets and social insurance.

With regard to phenomena such as trafficking, it was important to try to eliminate the demand, but it was even more important to empower women, thereby ending unequal power structures and discrimination.

The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.

No doubt, we live today in an extraordinarily unequal world.

Unequal access to education, as a result of these constraints.

Only normal bilateral relations will allow the two countries to work together to forge a lasting Asian balance of power.

The Expert Group Meeting noted, however, that approaches to ensuring women's participation has often concentrated on increasing women's representation and had overlooked structural constraints, such as unequal gender relations, that limited women's potential to influence decisions and bring about change.

American society is very unequal (and China s is slightly more so).

It also creates a less prosperous, more unequal, and partitioned world.

In the next few days, the formation of Russia s new government will reveal much about power relations between conservatives and liberals.

seeking new and unequal privileges for themselves in an enlarged Security Council.

Married female (second) guardians were also unequal in status to their husband.

Instead of the intended radical realignment of power relations in the region, the aim is now to simply maintain the status quo.