United Nations Convention Against Torture

which states, “all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, color,…

Human rights are the rights that are held by all human beings by virtue of being human, which are universally held equal by all people. Human rights are constitutional to all human beings regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status, and cannot be given or taken away. (Understanding education as a right , n.d.) International human rights law sets out the obligations of states to respect, protect, and fulfil human rights for all.…

Coercive diplomacy is a threat diplomacy whereby one of the actors threatens the other with repercussions, whether of a military, economic or social nature. This diplomatic tactic involves using the threat of the war in Europe or launching a nuclear attack in exchange for ceding the requirements of the other state. This diplomacy is therefore an instrument of prevention and management of conflicts before the conduct of a State that, otherwise, could end up causing a warlike confrontation in…

9. In most wars, property belonging to the opponent is destroyed. During its colonial wars, the British Army often burnt down the houses of civilians. In the Anglo-Boer War, the first farm-burnings occurred at an early stage, shortly after the outbreak of the war, when the British destroyed the farms of rebels in the Cape Colony; and when a British force made an incursion into the south-eastern OFS on 9 January 1900, several farmhouses were destroyed and the livestock carried off. In the light…

to account for the fall of the soviet union and the period of peace and unipolarity following. A neorealist assumption claims that under a system of unipolarity, peace will most likely be achieved. If this claim is correct, it would account for the United States position as a hegemon following the Cold War in which issues not involving state actors such as cybersecurity and the war on terror became imminent. However, realism provides that states are constantly acting to maintain a balance of…

The different approaches to peace education are ‘Education for Peace' and ‘Education for Peace'. Education for peace is the education inorder to create preconditions for the achievement of peace and education about peace involves the developmental and practice of instructions and processes that comprise a peaceful social order. Recent global events in the political, cultural and religious spheres have caused division, discrimination, and distrust among the masses, thereby unsetting the mantle of…

Many countries in the world face issues and factors that threaten the wellbeing of its citizens, and the country itself. Guatemala is one of these countries that seems to consistently face these threats and issues. Guatemala is a low to middle income country located in Latin America. Its inhabitants have faced and dealt with a myriad of diseases, poor political figures, economic crises, and a 36 year long civil war. Guatemalans battle with issues surrounding alcoholism, lack of education,…

Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the goals that created by the United Nation (UN) in order to develop the member states by achieving all of those goals. There are a lot of countries in the world that still have many challenges and problems that prevent them from becoming the developed countries. The newest sustainable development goals were released by UN in September 2015. The newest version of Sustainable Development goals consists of 17 goals which were…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), established at the end of the Second World War, proposed, as stated in its Constitution, to "forge peace in the minds of men." Therefore, it also states in the same document, that its mission is not to act in conflicts but in the causes that generate them. In this sense, since its creation, it is proposed to release humanity from three major threats: the war (the last had left about 50 million dead); Ignorance (by…

example for all women. Roosevelt portrays the American Dream because she overcame hardship in her youth and achieved success through her hard work and determination while serving as a first lady and, afterwards, when serving as a leader at the United Nations. Although Eleanor Roosevelt's family had money, it does not mean her life was all that easy. In her early life, Eleanor grew up in a divided home with high expectations from her mother that she was not able to reach. Eleanor was not…