United Nations Convention Against Torture

After the era of independence wars or civil wars for land, wars became more intense because of technology and globalization. Consequently, organizations were created to help or solve global affairs. For example, the United Nations plays an important role as an organization because it is considered an intermediary in decisions for problems globally. In addition, countries have learned how tremendous the damage can be when a war comes, however, countries still invest great quantities of money and…

Statute U.S.C. § 678 provides that it is an unlawful act for any person to ‘knowingly develop, produce, otherwise acquire, transfer directly or indirectly, receive, stockpile, retain, own possess or use or threaten to use any chemical weapon’. Chemical weapon is defined as ‘a toxic chemical and its precursors …any chemical which through chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans or animals…includes all such chemicals, regardless of…

being forced to partake in a demeaning industry where they are forced to due hard labor with little to no pay. Land grabbing leaves families in a state of loss and anger. Freedom of speech and expression takes away the right the citizens had when the United States brought democracy to the country, leaving their thoughts private and limited. Disregarding their limits on speech and expression can result in penalty in prison. Human trafficking takes young children, mainly girls, and has them as sex…

Millennium Samuel Hopkins helps support this idea of harmony throughout all nations. Hopkins a follower of Edwards and a Congregational minister goes into more details about how the idea was brought up and seen in the culture of North America. During this time of early antebellum its easy to see the hope and inspiration that helped lead to the millennium thinking. Since it was a time after they came together as the United States and they all felt at peace of being free from England. Hopkins…

Women’s Rights are Human Rights “It is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.” On September 5th, 1995, in Beijing, China, Hillary Rodman Clinton took action and spoke about the violence and discrimination against women. The rights of women are the most often ones whose human rights are violated. Even till today, late 20th century, women are still fighting to have the equality and respect as men. Clinton’s speech targets the governments and different…

access to assets and property. Compared to the United States, women’s participation in the workforce is devastating. “India ranked 124 out of 136 nations to a world economic forum report in 2015.” Even though the United states is very developed and India is still a developing country both countries go out of their way to create new businesses and prosperity. Both countries face the similarities of unfair pay gaps, but the equality in pay in the United states has increased, as well as women’s…

aid budget to help 3rd world countries into flourishing. An increase in America’s budget towards aiding foreign is beneficial because in past events ignoring countries pleas is shown to be ineffective and by aiding them helps spread democracy. The United States has had history with not aiding foreign countries which resulted to be ineffective and killed millions. In Scott Baldauf article “Why the U.S didn’t intervene in the Rwandan genocide” he states, “ During WW2 ,…

1. Believes that countries should (a) Criminalize the act of human trafficking as a very serious offense and punish traffickers with an extremely severe sentence to alarm other criminals of the consequences of this act that will occur to them if they carry on, (b) Defend and respect the previous resolutions about this issue, and always protect the victims of this disgraceful transgression that takes place in the majority of the countries in the world, 2. Approves states to create an immigration…

In 2014 more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school by a that is group self identified by boko haram (Jacqueline). Boko haram is a islamic terrorist group that is against western ideas ,and everything to do with the west. Many people have suffered from boko haram, while no one knows how many they've killed in their insurgency, the number is higher than 17,000 (Ogunlesi). I’m recommending to deal with boko haram by supporting the nigerian army with supplies and anything they need,…

organization. In order for peace to be restored and sustained, Jeffrey Sachs believes that certain factors such as the poverty crisis, environmental degradation, water access and the famine in the land need to be addressed. Jeffrey Sachs reminds us that a nations…