Uncertainty reduction theory

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), implemented in September 2000 under the cooperation of all 191 United Nations member states are rooted in the concept of the eradication of poverty, and sustainable development. “The target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline” formally proclaimed Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of United Nations. However, a number of countries are shown to have not met their goals by the deadline due to high levels of…

Imagine a world where rivers are a clear blue, grasses green, and wildlife is abundant. Think about what it would be like if there was no poverty and everyone lived in harmony. All of this is possible through sustainable development. The standard definition of sustainable development is economic development without exhausting natural resources, but there is much more to it than that. With this economic growth comes the elimination of underprivileged areas and pollution. It also provides help to…

According to Ontario Human Rights Code, Code 13 Announced intention to discriminate noted that “A right under Part I is infringed by a person who publishes or displays before the public or causes the publication or display before the public of any notice, sign, symbol, emblem, or other similar representation that indicates the intention of the person to infringe a right under Part I or that is intended by the person to incite the infringement of a right under Part I.” (Code 13.1) There are a…

Nigeria’s expanding sex trafficking industry. It is estimated, by the United Nations, that 2.5 million people a year are deprived of their human rights and freedoms (Nnadi, 2013). Government recognition of this growing challenge plays a key role in the reduction of sex trafficking. Enacting appropriate legislation, making policy formulations, and supporting other measures are responses by the government intended to decrease the inhumane practice of trafficking. These responses include the…

and girls CARE 's Women Empowerment branch focuses on Education, lessening gender based violence, ending child marriage, and brining women out of poverty. By examining the organizations rhetoric and programing, and fundamental feminist development theory, this section will highlight the ways CARE (re)produces the exact women 's issues it attempts to fix. Depsite all the projects that CARE says it funds and creates, there is very little…

One negative consequence of globalization I will like to emphasize is poverty. Defining Poverty Poverty is generally explained as the scarcity or the situation in which a person lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. It is a condition in which a community or a person lacks the essential needs to enjoy a minimum standard of living in the society (Lister, 2004). The United Nations defines poverty as the inability of getting choices and opportunities. This is explained in…

As cited by Ahamdi (2010) based in the study of Lewis’s theory of the culture of poverty (1959) stated that the primary factors that cause the marvel of begging are the culture of poverty and poverty. Some of these attributes are: abstention in public activities, the feeling of obscurity in the urban society, experiencing some chronic ailments and at some point, malingering, absence of professional skills, encountering long haul unemployment periods, some mental attributes, for example, lack of…

In modern day Latin America people struggle for even the most basic of human needs such as water, sanitation, and food. Governments in many countries do little to help lift the people out of poverty and give way to a higher quality of life for the poor while letting companies with vast resources come into their country, take their resources, and in return do little other than pay a meager wage to those who labor for these companies. The systems that are put in place by forced democracy are…

Plastic surgery is one of the most widely used forms of surgery in the United States. With over 14.6 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures performed in 2012 alone, you start to wonder who are all these people getting work done. Around 64 thousand of these patients are actually teenagers. Most of them get a new set of boobs, new noses, new butts, and it creates a lot of controversy. Under very strict circumstances should teenagers have plastic surgery done to them. You may be asking…

Besides, poverty reduction can also be considered as one of the main challenges for developing countries. Regarding to the estimation by the World Bank, 12.7% of the world’s population in 2012 lived under extreme poverty; at or below 1.90 dollars per day (the new poverty line)…