United Nations Environment Programme

Historical View on Hunger Hunger has established itself throughout many centuries and many nations. Countries in all stages of development experience hunger in various degrees. According to the Director of Economic Studies at St. Arthur University, countries can be classified into three stages of development: developed, developing, and undeveloped. Underdeveloped and developing countries have a low standard of living and GDP per capita value, while developing countries have more advanced and…

they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue” (“Hunger in a World” qtd. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2006). The issues of poverty, hunger, corruption, inequality, and poor leadership are detrimental to developing nations. These problems are not going the fix themselves and it is important to understand that all countries need to work together in order to reverse this process that kills millions of people every year. There are many solutions and changes that…

meaning an active conservation of a bond between nations, "the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area" (Dictionary.com, 2015). By definition, a united nations act of force. To breakdown those four words one has realise the true meaning of such; a truce is violently acted upon, but when one steps in, it is no longer keeping the peace. To make peace, is to suggest that two or more nations were/are already at war with one…

Often, economists have skirted around the economic impact that geography plays for developing nations. For many of these countries, their location contributes to the prevalence of tropical diseases. In order to overcome this obstacle, a developing country should focus its efforts on expanding the nation’s healthcare infrastructure by constructing a network of accessible and affordable medical and emergency services and dedicating resources to the research and development of vaccines against…

Employee Skills There is much to consider when change takes place within an organization, communication, buy-in, and engagement to name a few. One area not to be overlooked when implementing change is the skills of the employees. Training is the foundation for building knowledge about the change and the required skills (change-management.com, 2014). Employees are the organizations number one asset, so ensuring they have the skillset required to match the strategic goal of the organization is…

Opposing Viewpoints The United Nations was built on the Wilsonian vision of how international order should be organized around a global collective body in which sovereign sates would act together to uphold a system of territorial peace (Ikenberry 2009). Wilson was a world leader throughout the early decades of the 1900s and was president during the first world war. His experiences led him to believe that there was a need for a single overwhelming powerful group of nations who shall be the…

Today’s global governance institutions were built around the emergence of the United States of America as a superpower in the mid-1940s. It was this mantle that caused the United States, for whatever reason, to assume responsibility for the reconstruction of nations both in the west and in the east following the devastating effects of World War II. A point largely dismissed by those too young to remember. That virtually uncontested assumption of responsibility combined with the need for…

who created these organizations sue them, the government denies their claims and tells them that they basically did nothing wrong (World Report). China is a member of the United Nations (since 1945), and with these issues the country is violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that were created by the United Nations (Counties). This is because the country is going against some of the basic rights that were put into this declaration. For example, China is violating human rights like…

listed as goals to be met (United Nations MDG Report 2014). These are called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were created with the intention to help Third World countries develop. Even though these issues are considered vital to the well-being of peoples in Third World countries, there are a number of issues…

A key factor of sovereignty lies in the status of its external recognition; according to Li and Zhou: financial sovereignty is a component of sovereignty itself and therefore is “…composed of financial sovereign status, financial sovereign authority, and financial sovereign capability.”(Li and Zhou, p. 178). Sovereign status, being based on the recognition and consent of other states, should not be affected by globalization of financial capitalism, leaving the other two components from Li and…