United Nations General Assembly

law required business to pay children a minimum wage determined by each state. This law also regulated the amount of hours a child can work a week. The fight against the use of Child labor was led by many political officials and parents across the united states. One of these activists was Grace Abbott. “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child…

may play the role of mediators between two disputing countries which is at a risk of escalating into a war. Another role can be peacekeeping and peace support operations with United Nations playing the lead role. Global security and peacekeeping is lead by one of the principle organs of the United Nations, the United Nations Security Council. It plays a number of important roles which can be to probe any dispute which can threaten international peace, advising on how to solve disputes, to…

The United Nations, Supreme Court, and the Principal Criminal Code, have had controversial thoughts towards the law of children having correctional punishment. In 1892, the Criminal Code of Canada contained a provision within Section 43, to allow “reasonable correction” as a defense. Although within the Criminal Code of Canada itself, threatening to assault or actually assaulting someone is a crime. This includes punching, slapping, kicking, pinching, or…

way a nation is run, and vital in the protection of its people. In an effort to stay connected to other foreign countries and try to avoid dispute, the United Nations was created. An international governmental organization, the U.N. has been in existence since World War II’s decline. While many may have differing opinions on whether the U.N. is a benefit or hindrance, it is important to note that since its founding,…

“the existence of rights that all human beings possess that even one’s own government cannot infringe on or deny and then can be protected by external elements, as through the United Nations.” There are 30 provisions in the Declaration of Human Rights that was passed on December 10th, 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. However, not many of these are seen as universal. Most of these provisions depend on state interpretation, which relies on culture, norms, beliefs, history, etc.…

country where 40% of the population had no access to drinking water. Funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the TajWSS project has been implemented by Oxfam in partnership with the Government of Tajikistan (GoT) the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Oxfam first important step in the project was to promote a constructive dialogue among citizens, service providers and public officials, contributing to the institutional and policy reform in Tajikistan, enhancing…

The humanity law framework involves a change of norms as well as different direction of enforcement. This provides new insights and causes a new shift to transition from a purely political discourse of state interests. Hence, it highlights other issues on the states’ political agenda. The alteration of norms consists of a “constitutive of the emerging global order, in part, by serving a central discursive function.” This allows for a different approach to analyze the interests that are at…

The League of Nations was borne out of collective desire of the nations around the world to prevent war, promote world peace and stability. Not to mention, the unprecedented destruction and death caused by World War I spurred the victorious nations into establishing a system of collective security in the form of League of Nations. The primary motive of the League of Nations was to prevent/deter or address any aggression by a state through collective response from other states, thereby ensuring…

How Joining the United Nations affected Canada Since its inception in 1945, closely following the catastrophic second world war, the UN has been making the world a better place, in general. Few countries contributed as much and were shaped by the UN as much as Canada. From peacekeeping missions to national identity, Canada has taken advantage of the possibilities the UN has provided and continues to revel in the benefits. In this essay, I will focus on Canada’s contributions to the UN’s…

Embargo are still felt to this very day on both sides. The United States continues to pretend as if the embargo protects us more than it harms us and the Cuban people, but that is not the case. In this ongoing embargo no side can be said to be better off without the other than they would be by working together. This relic of the Cold War needs to be done away with and along with it the mindset of countries’ non-changing norms. It is time the United States start exporting our commodity of…