Indian Child Welfare Act

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they can grow up in peace." --Kofi Annan The essence of the Indian culture lies in its age long prevailing tradition of the joint family system. However, in the present times, the decline of this traditional Institution and its subordination to nuclear family…

The preamble of this convention states that “Whereas prostitution and the associated evil of the traffic in persons for the purpose of prostitution are unsuited with the dignity and worth of the human person and jeopardise the welfare of the individual, the family and the community." This convention has 28 articles in which States Parties agree to proscribe several kinds of procurement of prostitutes (articles 1 to 15), encourages the protection and recovery of prostitutes (article…

In the 1880s, the Government of Canada began to establish the Indian Residential School (IRS) system. This was the government’s bid to provide education according to treaty promises. The IRS progressed slowly at the beginning. However, under the Indian Act of in 1920, it became mandatory for every Indian child to attend a residential school and made it illegal for them to attend any other educational institution. Authorities would frequently take children to schools far from their home…

A few years before this speech was given, Indian removal and the Trail of Tears was initiated by Martin Van Buren in 1838 and 1839, in which millions of Cherokee Indians died from the cold weather, as well as from small-pox infested blankets given to the Native Americans. Therefore, the word-choice utilized by Mann is interesting in this excerpt, as the actuality…

aware of emergence of WTO which means strong implication to cut down tariffs and import quotas. At this stage as we discussed that the government was showing the keen interest in public spending but due the global market situation is changing the Indian economy is seemed to obliged to incorporate modest industrialization and enrich the political and economical terms with other countries. The question can be asked again whose interest are getting fulfilled adding to it, is central form of policy…

Notwithstanding the significance of the effects of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding schools have had on American Indians past and present, the literature is comparatively small regarding methods to overcome the trauma. Existing literature does, however, explain the history of the boarding schools experience’s harm to American Indian children. Moreover, the literature provides a few methods as to how these victims might mend and move forward. The writer included Canadian literature in…

President Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This act represents the most significant change to the U.S. healthcare system since the passing of Medicare and Medicaid. This act was put into place to better the quality and affordability of health insurance, lower the amount of uninsured Americans, expand existing insurance, and reduce the cost of healthcare to Americans and the government. This act was a step in the direction of universal health care. More than…

Bhabani Bhattacharya was born in the same decade of the 20th century in which famous Indian Novelists Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao were born. He is strongly called as one of the four wheels of the Indian English novelist. The other three are Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the most famous amid the older generation of Indian English novelists. He was born on the 10th of November, 1906 in Bhagalpur (Bihar). Bhabani Bhattacharya belonged to…

the reaction to violence against women is met with the notion that there should be stronger government action (Robbins & Weissman, 2012).  There are several activist groups, legislators, and conservatives that oppose the VAWA because they claim the act has done little or no good for real survivors of domestic violence, while its funds have been used to fill feminist coffers and to lobby for feminist objectives. The socially conservative Family Research Council says the real abuse of the…

Hannah Adams was a woman who wrote for a living and made an impact on people through her writing. She grew up being the second child of five with both parents up until the age of 12 when her mother passed away (Curtiss). Due to having an illness she could not receive formal education but continued to read and gain an interest in religion (Hannah). With the encouragement of her father and his access to students that were on leave for discipline and tutoring from Harvard, Hannah Adams was more…