Darfur

Genocide is one of the many things today that is so hard to prevent. The word genocide comes from the Greek word geno-, meaning race or tribe, and from the Latin word -cide, meaning killing. The genocides range from the Armenian genocide, the genocide in Darfur, in Rwanda, the Holocaust, and so much more. Raphael Lemkin, the person who came up with the word genocide, came up with it because he wanted to describe Nazi policies of systematic murders and the other crimes against humanity. Genocide…

to go through rehabilitation, and not be considered as a criminal, because they do feel remorse about killing, they’re forced to fight in the war, and they’re brainwashed into thinking killing is right. In the article, “Witness: A Child Soldier’s Darfur Confession – ‘I shot her. She is dead.’”(2015) by Amy Braunschweiger, it says, “I lost my temper and I shot her.… She is dead.”” To be fair there are circumstances where child soldiers feel nothing over killing innocent people. It is only under…

distributed copies throughout New York City. The poster was designed to benefit and raise awareness of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global frontrunner in responding to the world’s most sever humanitarian crises. Addressing the crisis in Darfur, Glaser upholds that "It is our job to keep up the pressure on this despicable event." The campaign also included a 28 x 38 foot banner that stated "500 Family Members Killed Today and Every Day," aiming to take the seemingly distant…

refused to help.Elie Wiesel talked about this type of senseless violence during his Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech in 1986 and people agreed with him and pretty much said they are completely against it yet in happened in Rwanda 8 years later and Darfur 17 years later. You’d think people would learn to help early in these situations but they never…

For example, the Holocaust was a genocide, which could be connected with genocides more recently in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.1 Other real world problems could be taught along with the Holocaust, such as world hunger, climate change, and water scarcity. Another thing that could be taught along with the Holocaust is discrimination issues. There are and always will be issues…

Rohan Gajjar First year seminar Fall’17 Summer Read Paper “It’s What I Do-A photographer’s life of love and war” by Lynsey Addario is well written and briefly describes not just her life but also the life of the other photographers, journalists, the writers, the local interpreters, the militants and the victims of the war. She briefly describes how she was treated in a male dominant society in the middle east where the women are not allowed to work and they needed to be accompanied by their…

Has your world ever seemed to come to a complete stop? If the answer is yes, then maybe you have gotten a taste of what Year Zero would have been like. There was nothing during this year: no food, no clothes, no families, and no money. Located in Southeast Asia, Cambodia is a country less than half the size of California. From 1975 to 1979 the people of this country were living in the most unbearable conditions. This is due to the fact that on April 17, 1975 Pol Pot commenced mass murders of the…

particular group targeted with an intent of destroying a whole group would also not meet the legal definition of the genocide. The Genocide recognized by UN are: against Armenians, against Jewish (Holocaust), Cambodians, Tutsi in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur however there is other recognized genocide “UN home…

of their way to do something right with the world. Angelina Jolie is a devoted humanitarian who has worked in many different underdeveloped areas. She has made many headlines for her work such as obtaining aid for refugees in places like Cambodia, Darfur, and Jordan, just to name a few select places. Jolie was given an ambassador's position for the UN refugee agency 16 years ago in 2001 for her work in her life pursuit of happiness for those surrounding her. (4, Biography Editors, 2017). Even…

Lastly, we are able to compare our simulation with the likes of international institutions such as NATO and the United Nations, and other NGOs through a process called multilateralism. NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was founded in 1949, and its purpose is to create political and militaristic alliances between North American and European countries during and after the Cold War, protecting the security and freedom of all the countries involved with the organization…