United Nations Development Programme

that all the world inhabitants are healthy. Pope Francis would likely agree with the President. However, the Pope takes tackling the environment to one more step. The Pope believes that there is a right to the environment. In his speech to the United Nations, the pope provides two reasons as to why the environment…

devastation of the country. Once they saw the photos of the gruesome pain that the nation was going through, many countries, families, churches, and groups of people fled their cozy lifestyles in an effort to help out the many in desperate need of help. Many attempts were made to help rebuild Haiti but none really seemed to work. Before the earthquake struck people looked at Haiti and thought of two ways to fix the nation. One way was the “Marshall plan” nicknamed from the multibillion-dollar…

started springing up around the United States as industrialization began to flourish. In their search for cheaper labor, factory owners turned to the most viable solution: children. With their endless energy and malleable minds, children were the perfect source of cheap labor, sometimes working 60-70 hour weeks. However, this cruel labor, often without bathroom or lunch breaks, left children ill and unable to attend school, have fun or live a normal life. The United States wasn’t the only…

consideration in India’s development today? In 2003 the former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela stated, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Mandela used this as a means of liberating his country to move forward from the previously dysfunctional education system and be able to initiate a new system, which could provide “quality opportunities for all people” (Mandela, 2003 ). Mandela spoke with not only education being the key of development for…

revealed that many were lost through barbaric regimes of systematic killings and genocide. In response, the world’s budding powers convened to ensure that the horrors of the Second World War would never be repeated, resulting in the formation of the United Nations. The UN worked to create a standard on human rights, and also sought to deal with the territories that were annexed from enemy states at the end of the Second World War. The end of World War Two also saw the collapse of colonialism and…

The United Nation Global Compact’s Ten Principles explicitly targets the behavior of companies on the global stage. Derived from: “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption” (UN cite), the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles is aimed at providing a platform for sustainable practices in…

citizens from things such as crimes against humanity, the priority of a nation shifts to the safety of its people. Changing the focus of the sovereign makes for the population to be less likely to endure human right violations which is ultimately the most important thing. The integration of R2P also makes it so that states are held responsible when failing to protect its citizens. By failing to protect its citizens the nation has failed to complete the duties a sovereign has to fulfill. A…

At its simplest, development is defined as a process resulting in economic growth, however this widely believed definition is a misconception and needs to include additional criteria (Hodder 2000). Development is multidimensional therefore encompasses political, technological, social and economic change, thus a more suitable definition is; an economic, social, and political process creating a sustained and significant rise in the perceived standard of living (Hodder 2000). With intention to…

The nation of Tuvalu is proud to be part of the United Nations General Assembly seeking to “examine potential threats to territorial sovereignty and security as a result of Cyber Terrorism, produce effective legislation on the production, stockpiling, and use of biological and chemical weaponry, and discuss the militarization and weaponization of space” (Mahmoudi 2). These issues are important to Tuvalu because we understand that one country affected by any of these actions will cause a global…

Part III: Do the targets effectively evaluate Goal 13? When taken together, the five proposed Targets for Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals represent a solid but incomplete effort to fulfill the goal of combating climate change and its impacts. With some additions, the current targets could be made to better reflect all aspects of Goal 13. The greatest success of the current…