United Nations Convention Against Torture

It highlights the importance of people’s human rights: both civil and political rights. Before the trials, the emphasis of rights was only placed upon the rights of governments because they needed to protect their nationals against other…

principles, with his introduction of his new aims for the war: the Four Freedoms (Kissinger 389). He laid out these four freedoms --- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from war --- as the goals of any conflict the United States would enter into. He proclaimed that Nazi war crimes and attacks on civilians were showing more and more than the safety of american values overseas was in jeopardy (Kissinger 389). This restated moral imperative meant that anything…

Introduction The Republic of Congo is one of the poorest developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which half the country’s people live below the poverty line and the DRC ranked 27th out of 79 countries on the Global Hunger Index(2012). 64.8% of the poorest people are living in rural areas where they earn a livelihood as are small-scale farmers and fishers. So Congo is one of most extremely influenced in the world by food in security. The targets for achievement the Millennium Development…

CSR is commonly known as “corporate social responsibility”. CSR is a form of corporate self-regulation crammed into a business model. CSR basically functions as a self-regulatory mechanism in which a business monitors and ensures its active compliance within certain regulations of code and laws. CSR is important in aiding a companies’ mission as well as a guide for to what the company stands for in face of consumers. All in all, CSR strives to provide a positive impact in all sectors of their…

challenges, the Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter- Agency Group (MMEIG) has been able to generate internationally comparable estimates. This group is made up of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division (UNDP). Some key findings from their report for the 1990 – 2015 period are as follows: the maternal mortality rate (MMR) has decreased by 44% globally (from 385 in 1990…

The United Nations aims to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” (UN Charter) by promoting international peace and security. Founded in 1945, the UN had 51 member states. Today there are 193 member states, yet the system remains unchanged. While disputes are tangible and concrete, conflicts are processes in which actors express dissatisfaction or disagreement with organizational structure (Constantino & Merchant 5). The intangibility of conflict makes it difficult to diagnose.…

and political unrest the international community looks to the US as a global leader. The culture and values of the UN reflect the power of US leadership in an anarchic system. American values dictate the rhetoric used in the Charter. Monetarily, the United States contributes more than any other state. Furthermore, the structure of the General Assembly closely resembles that of the US Senate (BBC). This Americanization of an international organization impedes the UN’s ability to remain…

important to note that it’s not only the responsibility of European governments to create systems for resettlement because of their proximity to the situation, as Singer points out with the Bengali crisis, but governments around the world including the United States, must cooperate across international borders to solve this massive crisis. Australian, Canadian, and American government must look at the way that countries like Germany are taking charge and resettling large numbers of refugees and…

Translated from Hausa language to “Western Education is forbidden”, the group refers to itself as “Jama‘atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da‘awati wal-Jihad” (JASDJ; Group of the Sunni People for the Calling and Jihad). Controversial origins and grievances, scholars argue that Boko Haram either emerges in the mid- 1990s either in the early 2000s by a small Sunni Islamic Sect. International concerns over Islamic groups operating in northern Nigeria are nothing new, in the mid-1920s under British rules the…

of developing countries the challenges faced by children and woman are not properly addressed and often deemed unnecessary aspects of research. Much evidence of gender inequality exists in society, some of the worst cases are found in developing nations. Some might wonder what these challenges are and what actions are being taken by governments and foreign aid organizations to address these matters. The difference in gender roles between men and woman have obvious economics effects and changes…