United Nations Environment Programme

The third millennium development goal encompasses education, political participation, and economic empowerment with equality for women as a primary focus. This essay focuses on four projects that UN Women have implemented in order to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal three. The projects covers the HeForShe solidarity campaign that promotes gender equality by…

discipline that seeks to answer big questions surrounding the way countries develop over time. One of these questions is the question of poverty; how it is caused and more importantly what can be done to solve the issue of poverty. According to the United Nations (UN) (2010) 2.8 billion people survive on less than $2 a day which is nearly half the population. Thus development studies seek to find solutions to this issue in order to assure that all people have equal opportunity and access to…

A developing country is a nation with a low standard of living, a low Human Development Index (HDI) and undeveloped industrial base relative to other countries. The factors of defining a developed country involves people have short and unhealthy life, people have less education and less income. It is commonly assumed that economic development plays an important role and has a significant positive effect in developing countries. The economic development of developing countries is most important…

The International community and international law, nation, state and the laws of each, linguistic, ethnic, cultural and religious entities of the world, and the individual human are four different entities that prepare human rights. Each one of these entities has their own set of human rights, and sometimes there are difficulties in making all of the different human rights match up. When you look at the realm of human rights through the lens of each entity by itself it seems clear and it makes…

The Congo Wars were a bloody conflict that occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the first war occurring from late 1996 to mid 1997 and the second war occurring from late 1998 to mid 2003. The first Congo War started in late 1996, when the Tutsis began to rebel against the authoritarian rule of one of the key players of the conflict, Mobutu Sese Seko, and his supporters, the Hutu. The Tutsis quickly gained traction and when they neared the capital of the DRC from various…

headquarters are situated in New York City. HKI presently offer programs in 21 countries in Africa and Asia, among those which are currently ongoing in the United States. The organization battles the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition. They do so by overseeing programmes based on evidence and research. Moreover, HKI programmes also address critical issues such as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) including onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.…

1) Describe some of the issues associated with defining and applying the concept of state terrorism. State terrorism is hard to define as the definition is blurry, and the concept is vague. An issue that is associated with it is the definition. State terrorism could either mean that the state harbours terrorists, or that it funds terrorists. Because of this, it is hard to define what state terrorism really is and which classifications are needed to apply this concept. Another issue to do with…

Firstly, to maintain the reputation of a peacekeeping nation in the international community. Secondly, the Cyprus Crisis became an issue another issue of the Cold War. As a result Western governments became concerned about the possibility that the Soviet Union of the issue of the Cyprus Crisis. The countries…

Psychological Perspectives of Lone Wolf Terrorism The psychological perspective of lone wolf terrorism generates the characteristics of the terrorist, focusing on its demographic characteristics by understanding terrorists’ age, gender, social status, and education level. In the research statistic, the general characteristics of terrorists are mostly male, young people, high education background, good foreign language ability, and even high social status. Moreover, numbers of characteristics…

Genocide Must Stop How would you feel if members of your race or ethnic group was targeted by the government and other civilians. Genocide is the deliberate killing o a large group of people, especially those of nation. In a genocide there is eight systematic stages; classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, extermination, and denial. In 1941 Germany one of the most famous genocides occurred after World War 1 also known as the Holocaust. During the Holocaust…