User:Mlb13

I am currently a student at Rice University in Houston, Texas studying Political Science and Sociology. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, reading, and traveling. I am quite interested in the topics of mass incarceration and drug policy. Additionally, I would love to learn more about how these two topics relate to poverty. I am looking forward to working on my first article!

Topic 1: Violence Against Women in Ghana

I am interested in issues related to women, specifically violence against women. I choose Ghana because marital rape is still legally allowed and domestic violence is quite prevalent. The topic of “violence against women” will allow me to write about multiple forms of violence and placing these issues specifically in Ghana will keep the topic from being too broad

Sources: Amoakohene, Margaret. “Violence against Women in Ghana: a Look at Women's Perceptions and Review of Policy and Social Responses.” Egyptian	Journal of Medical Human Genetics, Elsevier, 25 May 2004,www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953604001637.

Apatinga, Gervin. “‘Rape Is Rape’: Marital Rape, a Neglected Issue in Ghana.” News Ghana, News Ghana, 7 May 2018, www.newsghana.com.gh/rape-is-rape-marital-rape-a-neglected-issue-in-ghana/.

Archampong, Elizabeth. “Marital Rape - A Women's Equality Issue in Ghana.” The Equality Effect, The Equality Effect, Sept. 2010, theequalityeffect.org/pdfs/maritalrapeequalityghana.pdf.

Campbell, John. “Violence against Women in Ghana: Unsafe in the Second Safest Country in Africa.” Council on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, 28 July 2016, www.cfr.org/blog/violence-against-women-ghana-unsafe-second-safest-country-africa.

Diedong, Africanus L., and Issac Dery. “Domestic Violence against Women in Ghana: An Exploratory Study in Upper West Region, Ghana.” International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 4, no. 12, Oct. 2014, pp. 228–244., doi:10.1353/ghs.2015.0009.

“Facts on Violence Against Women in Ghana (Part 1 of 2).” Gender Studies & Human Right Documentation Centre., Gender Studies & Human Right Documentation Centre., gendercentreghana.org/?p=63.

“Ghana.” Global Database on Violence Against Women, 2016, evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/en/countries/africa/ghana.

Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) and Associates (2016), Domestic Violence in Ghana: Incidence, Attitudes, Determinants and Consequences, Brighton: IDS.

Owusu Adjah, Ebenezer S., and Isaac Agbemafle. “Determinants of Domestic Violence against Women in Ghana.” BMC Public Health 16 (2016): 368. PMC. Web. 6 Sept. 2018.

Osei-Tutu, Ellen Mabel and Ampadu, Ernest (2017). Domestic Violence against Women in Ghana: Attitudes of Men toward Wife-Beating. Journal of	International Women's Studies, 18(4), 106-116.http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol18/iss4/8

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Other possible topics I am interested in: •Incarcerated women •Drug Policy in certain countries •Drug addiction in certain countries

Mlb13 (talk) 19:57, 11 September 2018 (UTC)