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The WTO currently has too many loopholes, allowing Japan to hunt for “research purposes” and Norway to hunt under an “objection” of the ban. I think that the panel should be a part of an environmental offshoot of the United Nations and that delegates that serve on the panel should be a working part of the UN. Science, interests, and morals should be reasonably discussed, weighted on the evidence presented and states must reformulate common jurisdiction. They must also make…

matter their proximity to the reader. While Singer’s writing is focused specifically on the 1971 Bengali Famine, the ideals proposed are applicable for modern situations as well. Singer begins by outlining the fact that, if willing, first-world nations and their citizens are more than capable of alleviating states of famine in the third-world, but have not provided assistance of a high enough quantity to do so. This, according to Singer, is morally wrong. He postulates that dying from famine…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and effective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing measurable and time bound objectives, the MDGs help to promote global awareness, political…

Educating girls and women is a human right which is indispensable to ensure societal health and wellbeing. Female education creates powerful poverty-reducing synergies and yields enormous intergenerational gains (Mercy Tembon and Lucia Fort, 2008). Literacy of women is an important key to improving health, nutrition and education in the family and to empowering women to participate in decision making in society (Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995). Countries with higher levels of…

Globalization seems to be a catch-all term that refers to any activity that involves more than one country. In fact, to define globalization simply, it can be seen as ‘complex connectivity’ and the expansion of social ties across the planet (Tomlinson 1999). With globalization developed, the conflict of diverse cultures has gradually sparked controversy around the world. Interestingly, A General Motors auto advertisement with "Body by Fisher" became "Corpse by Fisher" in Flemish (Intercultural…

from Karl Maier best explains the situation of war that took place in Rwanda from October 1st, 1990 to August 4th, 1993. The war continued into a horrible genocide/massacre until July, 1994. The Rwanda Civil War took place within the central African nation of the country. The dispute was between the President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Entire families were killed at a time. Women were raped and murdered. The war did not end until the Tutsi-dominated rebel…

The human race and all of it’s culture has been around long enough to see some pretty nasty things. From the holocaust to disease outbreaks and even some of the prejudice we see today all show that group unity can be both amazing and devastating. People can best respond to conflict by bonding together and using that unity to help other groups that need it instead of discriminating against them. Group favoritism can destroy entire societies and most of us have seen its devastating effect.…

the previous attack on her, she has so much support from everywhere around the world that the Taliban cannot do anything to harm Malala and her family. On her 16th birthday she started to raise her voice again. That day she gave a speech at the United Nations. She also wrote a self-written life story named, "I am Malala Yousafzia: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban." Now Malala is opening schools for girls all over the world, with all its expenses covered by the…

Destruction of the Indies, was written by Bartolome de las Casas to attempt to stop the genocide that was being committed to the natives by his people. The book shares many episodes of acts of genocide. These acts correspond with the definition of the United Nations definition of genocide by as the U.N. themselves list the acts of, “…Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to…

the 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…