Darfur

An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore 's campaign to educate citizens about global warming through comprehensive slide show. The movie starts with Al Gore briefing about the first picture of the Earth from the space, which was taken on a Christmas Eve, 1968 during an Apollo 8 mission (Earth Rise) and tells us that the thin shell of atmosphere is filling up with pollution. The next…

Human right violations happen everywhere, but Sudan has its own violations that happen every single day. “The South Sudan Authorities have failed to adequately investigate” (Issa, 2013). It is believed that the government and police do not help their citizens when in need or investigate crimes adequately. “There is an increasing amount acknowledgement of child marriage as a serious human rights problem in South Sudan” (Odhiambo, 2011). Child or forced marriage is a serious issue in Sudan. Young…

the Red Sea Hills and the Ethiopian Highlands, while the Nuba Mountains are in the south. The highest point, at 3,042 meters, is the mountain Deriba Caldera of the volcanic range Marrah Mountains in the west. Also in the west are the Highlands of Darfur and the Nile-Congo Watershed, also known as the Nile-Congo Divide. This, at 2,000 kilometers long, separates the drainage basins of the Nile River and the Congo River (Shaw). Sudan is home to one of the most important rivers in Africa. The Nile…

This paper will explore the causes of racism and will particularly focus on the effects of the culture surrounding it, and the extensive and dramatic history behind it. Partnered with this, it will also focus on the history of racism in regards to slavery, segregation, and the infamous civil rights movement, and how they all play a distinct role in modern day racism, and the desensitivity that now surrounds racism. Around the world, there is evidently an unmistakable presence of…

Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Genocide is the most horrific crime that one culture can commit against another. Genocide can be politically, ethnically, religiously, and/or racially motivated. The genocides known as the Holocaust and the Crusades were two of the largest racial and religious genocides ever. The Crusades were the seven or eight1 “Holy Wars”, depending on how you viewed them, lasting from 1096…

The judicial power of Sudan’s Constitutional Court is typical of any other of its kind. The court “sits at the apex of the centralized judicial system” (The Republic of Sudan Art. 119). It functions as the “highest court in constitutional maters and has exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate cases concerning: protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, resolution of disputes between the different levels of government, and complaints against any act of the Presidency or the National…

computer can ascertain a positive combat identification of ground targets—assuming that the data being gathered is geo-registered. Once the computer can determine a positive identification—either a manned or unmanned aircraft—can engage a target. But at the end of the day, the computer is still making the determination that a contact is hostile. And there have been systems in the past such as the Northrop AGM-136 Tacit rainbow anti radiation cruise missile that was canceled in 1991. A later…

Ever since Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, its political landscape has experienced seemingly endless sociopolitical and economic turmoil due to ethnic conflicts amongst the 570 different tribes with diverse sets of faiths, social backgrounds and cultures, and more so due to religious tensions and power politics between the dominant Arab-Islamic North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected…

Benjamin Skinner travels the world hears these people’s testimonies about their life’s and how they survived hell and “resurrected” into this new life. He travels to Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands and suburban America to personally tell these stories that need to be told. With this book he has placed a vivid picture in our minds about the evil in this world now. Like the book explains it there is more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. He met his first…

Everyone knows that child soldiers are a bad occurrence. But the real question is, should a child soldier be treated as a victim or a criminal? Many say that the children are victims because they are forced into being a soldier, the result of refusal often being death. But how would you feel if your family was killed? It doesn’t matter who they were killed by, you would still want justice. A great majority of the child soldiers enlist and some even seem to enjoy killing. Those who refuse the…