United Nations Global Compact

The first draft “If we can 't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.” (Alexis Herman).For the majority of us, we don’t have to worry about how we came to be and what’s ahead of us. Ender on the other hand, was born for a specific reason with his destiny already set for him. Child labor has been a worldwide issue since the beginning of time and isn’t something that has…

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…

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…

Introduction: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Why should education be a vital 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…

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…

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 birth, mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling and GNI (PPP) per capita. This data is compiled per country and converted into a score from zero to one, with the latter being the most developed (Desai and Potter 2014). Norway is the nation with the highest HDI and therefore the highest levels of development, with a score of 0.944 (UNDP 2013). This indicator suggests that the highest HDI scores reflect the highest levels of development. To a certain extent this is representative,…

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…