United Nations Security Council

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (The United Nations, 1948) outlines in article 25.1 that everyone is entitled to sufficient social and civil living standards. This encompasses the rights to food, clothing, shelter, access to healthcare and social security. In many privileged nations, copious amounts of people never give these rights a second thought. Most were born into an abundance of security. Unfortunately, many were not. The World Health Organization estimated in 2010 that over…

The United States in the 1960’s was an era of development and revision. The Cold War was alive and well along with the uproar of Civil Rights movements, feminism, and the Vietnam War. However these transformative events did not over shadow one of the most drastic scientific goals of the century, landing a man on the moon, space exploration. This not only fascinated the nation but served as well as a challenge to the USSR. It was referred to as the Space Race, a part of the Cold War between…

countries overseas, however, there are some things that big businesses could do to decrease the toll that sweatshops have on the environment. They could begin to build their factories in places that are already urbanized to avoid more unnecessary deforestation. They could bring in healthcare and environmental professionals for seasonal or annual inspections of the people and the environment surrounding them. They could also provide their workers with amenities like clean water at work, and maybe…

The Iran deal was made between Iran, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, China, Russia and France. This deal was made to limit Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. The deal that President Obama agreed to states that Iran will get sanctions relief provided by the United Nations, European Union, and the United States if they do several things. First they must give up 97 percent of their uranium stockpile which reduces their stock from 10,000kg to 300kg. They do however, still maintain…

“used to prevent friendly governments from falling under the influence of unfriendly ones or as payment for the right to establish or use military bases on foreign soil...or to increase its diplomats’ access to foreign officials” (Britannica). The United States has to stop seeing foreign aid as a hand out, but as a…

When businesses of developed nations do business internationally, they must deal with an array of human and labor right differences. The company must learn about these areas of difference and must make ethical decisions about how they produce within these countries. Businesses in the modern world are expected to behave ethically, even by law in most developed countries. Therefore, they must balance their goal of earning a profit with ethics. Businesses today are tempted to bypass ethical issues…

This dissertation will answer the question “How do human rights in communist countries compare to human rights in democratic countries?” To answer this main question, a few sub questions will be explored. What are the governments’ ideas about human rights? What human rights are protected by natural laws? What human rights are protected by positivist laws? The research design used for this project is a qualitative case study. This research design best accommodates the purpose of this study,…

people generally against civilians, for the purpose of destabilizing an existing political system (Kelleher, 172), or a combination of the two, the response from the rest of the populace would wipe out the threat extremely quickly. The collective security provided by the militaries of the world would be massive deterrence, or posing a credible military threat to enemies and to potential aggressors, as…

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the businesses, which employ less than 250 persons. Though they are largely unstructured businesses, they interestingly, account for the lion’s share of the workforce in virtually every economy. To a large extent, they are usually sole-proprietorship businesses, especially at the micro and small levels. Due to their small sizes, the large labour they employ, the ease of starting up and speed of adaptation to emerging trends and consumer tastes, SMEs…

by Zimmermann (2011), who wrote that increasing economic development through globalisation is to provide something more attractive than terrorism (P159). Multilateral cooperation Globalisation has made it easier for multilateral efforts between nation-states, international policy structures and treaty organisations to control and manage global events (Khan, 2001). International efforts are being enforced globally, increasing the greater scrutiny of banks and the flow of capital, to identify in…