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ethnicity, class, or gender should not be the determining factor for the eligibility for needed resources. The place where anyone, including minorities can come and live the “American Dream”. Therefore, society as a whole must take a stand to rid our nation of the inequitable educational opportunities that plague poor, disinvested, disadvantage communities, because it is unjust. Although there are multiple reasons why disparities in educational opportunities exist, the one key factor that must…

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Fund, the National Institute of Health, as well as pharmaceutical companies, clinicians and researchers abide by guidelines established through the ideology of “universal usefulness,” which is defined as “benefiting...more than one group or country…[applicable] to several, [and] preferably all, population groups and ...extending to current and future generations” (Feierman 189). However, is instituting a universalist goal from…

The United Nations (UN) knew that they had to do something about this problem, playing their part in changing the mindset by introducing the concept of ‘human security’ and by discussing HIV/AIDS in Africa at the Security Council in January 2000. In 1994 the UN…

Exploring the idea of quality education access for children with disabilities remains important, for the reason that we need a country where all citizens enjoy fair social rights and opportunities. After all a development agenda must include all citizens, and people live in harmony with their fellow citizens without social unfairness, exploitation, oppression, while sharing the immeasurable happiness with all in the community (Nyerere 1968; Wabike, 2015). In essence then, we cannot ignore and…

There is a wide broad definition of poverty, to specify it to one term would be impossible. According to Unesco, poverty is defined in absolute and relative terms. Absolute poverty measures the lack of basic requirement to satisfy our basic human needs. Such as, safe drinking water, food, health, education, information, clothing, shelter and access to services (Unesco, 2016). The other term relative poverty, defines poverty in the economic condition that people lack in order to maintain the…

They hoped to find places, colonies, that they could use as means to sustain themselves, whether by exchanging goods, like they did with India, or by carelessly exploring the resources, like they did to Brazil. The creation of colonies led European nations to accumulate wealth on the expenses of the countries they were exploiting. But when independence movements started erupting around colonies, a different, yet similar systems was implemented, neocolonialism and neoliberalism, that are based on…

safeguard aid distribution are essential. Safety is nevertheless the main concern hindering public health intervention programs implementation in the complex emergency contexts. Currently, multilateral security forces provided by intervention donor nations and UN peace keepers, are in the best position to meet the difficult task of organizing and providing stability so that the other modules may safely take up the duty of the implementation of health interventions and complex…

This declaration came to be in 1948 and was supported by many world leaders. This declaration is still active today and is helping preserve human rights. Another thing going on to help preserve human rights is the United Nations organization. Many countries have joined the United Nations and are working to get human rights for…

install a disempowered masculinity as constitutive of the identities of the nation’s men.” (Hansen) Thus, the masculine becomes a domineering force while the feminine becomes the victim, coloring nations through a particular gender. Ambiguity bleeds through as feminist politics would take away the nation state and place situations in terms of who is the masculine entity in a conflict, and who is the…

economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice, among other priorities. The goals are interconnected — often the key to success on one will involve tackling issues more commonly associated with another.” “The SDGs are a United Nations-sponsored effort to create a common set of development goals for all communities in every country, with a deadline for attainment of 2030. The idea…