United Nations General Assembly

It is important to know the distinction between the theories presented by Rousseau and cosmopolitan democracy. Both theories form nations and have specific guidelines for a nation to follow. Rousseau based his theories on the Spartans and Romans of ancient time. He studied the small nation-states and their developments, and found characteristics that made them prosperous. While, the theory of cosmopolitan democracy is a response from an ever changing global climate during the Cold War. With more…

policies and processes of the United Nations, I will then be presenting arguments, involving the topics of human rights and moral duties, as to why humanitarian intervention is not only an effective solution, but also necessary at times. I will also examine a few of the common arguments against humanitarian intervention and go on to explain why they are invalid and flawed…

incarcerated for three years (Bozorgmehr). As an inmate, Sotoudeh went through hunger strikes to express her hatred towards the corrupt regime (Bozorgmehr). Sotoudeh was released days after the newly elected President Rouhani attended the U.N. General Assembly in New York (Bozorgmehr). Sotoudeh is "a strong voice for rule of law and justice in Iran,” and her release is one of many more to come in Iran…

include areas of politics, economy, society and environment but an aspect of concern is whether security is limited to and only individual, national and or international. In this essay it will discuss how national security has been the essence of many nations for decades as a survival tool but since the outbreak of World War one there has been a necessity for a collective international security and this change is a potent moment in the issue of world politics. Also this essay investigates one of…

is stages of genocide. There is 10 stages including discrimination, organization, preparation etc (Genocide watch). Every stage of genocide is serious and very important. Lastly the genocide convention was adopted. It was adopted by the United Nation General Assembly on December 9th 1948, the convention entered into force on the 12th of January 1951 (Genocide Watch). Many people try to prevent genocide although because genocides occur there are many negative results. First the Holocaust had…

Eleanor Roosevelt was in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). To asses the role that Eleanor Roosevelt played in the drafting of the UDHR, this investigation will focus on “her appointment as U.S. representative to the United Nations from December 1945 until January 1953”(Beasley 214) and how this “led to her leadership of the Human Rights Commission, which produces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the most important documents of the twentieth…

Murphy, 2). Here the term had evolved into something that protected the rights of the future generation, not only the current one. This definition was accepted by the United Nations General Assembly which gave the term political salience. In 1992, a broad strategy of sustainable development was officially endorsed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero. It continues to serve as the dominant meta-discourse of national and…

Moreover, the United Nations has gone on to address the various ways in which terrorism may derive from. In United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/Res/51/210, the development of terrorist groups, both international and domestic, was highlighted as a major aspect of terrorism, as well as an acts of terrors committed. Within Resolution A/Res/51/210 a multitude of measures were called for in order to combat the increasingly fatal repercussions of terrorism. These measures included a…

by deadly epidemics and an extremely variable average life expectancy between 20-40 years old. It was in this era that people were so concerned with survival and sustenance that there was an inability to consider developing public health in other nations. The next two stages, the Age of Receding Pandemics followed by the Age of Man-made and Degenerative Diseases revolved around a shift from the individual to the public level in terms of health care. This was due to many factors, with Omran’s…

United Nations Office on Drugs and Organized Crime (UNODC) defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of the threat or use of force or any other form of coercion or abduction or fraud, deception or abuse of power to achieve the consent of person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation. The UNODC commits all the state signatories to take proactive measures to investigate, prevent and stop acts of…