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as their was in fact a great discrepancy regarding the intervening powers such as the United Nations lack of involvement in the time that the Rwandan Genocide was taking…

answer this question. For the sake of simplicity this paper will focus on the responses found in the Taking Sides text. On one side Luis CdeBaca feels that the world is taking positive steps to combat human trafficking. On the other side, The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime feels that not enough is being done to stop human trafficking. Luis CdeBaca: Taking a Positive Stand against Human Trafficking. In CdeBaca’s article, he feels that within the last ten years of the publication date…

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…

Are Weapons of Mass Destruction Morally Justifiable? Weapons of Mass destruction have been the subject of debate for decades. Many people believe that WMDs are a good idea, and vital to a nations defence. However, there are many others who believe that they are a waste of money, incredibly dangerous and that they should all be destroyed. In order to form a full opinion on the matter, I will look at arguments from both sides of the debate, including views from religious groups. A…

international citizen”, and the country needs to put in more effort to gain the title. The fact Australia needs to improve may be true, however not meeting UN’s targeted rate does not disqualify Australia from being a “Good international citizen”. If a nation can be treated as a “Good international citizen” only by meeting a UN target, then the title is likely to be purchased rather than gained by its effort of resolving global issues and improve standard of living. Australia may be little…

In this article, Sangupta and Gladstone outline the inequality and blatant sexism that women face within committees of the United Nations They focus particularly on the rejection of several female candidates striving for a leadership positions within the U.N. Shazia Rafi, a United Nations representative for the All Pakistan Women’s Association is quoted saying, “Misogyny is baked into the system.” According to the article, the U.N. claims that female empowerment is a desired endeavor, however,…

The Rwandan genocide can be considered one of the most brutal genocides in human history. In spite of contentions surrounding the term “genocide” and what it really means, the majority of the international community recognizes that what occurred in Rwanda was indeed a genocide and that humanity failed to respond when we knew Rwanda was in need. This, in part, is the basis for Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire’s lecture “R2P and the Syrian Conflict: Lessons Learned from Rwanda.” As the leader of…

successor Alexander Petrov stole power and declared the United Nations treaty protecting the moon and other celestial bodies invalid. In one of his many grandiose speeches, Petrov claimed “When I was a little boy, I remember the radio telling me the Americans had beaten us in the ‘Space Race’ by stepping foot on the moon. I know our nation was devastated. But no more—Russia shall gain the upper hand again. I hereby announce the nation of Russia to stake a claim on owning land on the moon.…

Since its humble beginnings as ARPANET, the internet has become a tool in which citizens can “exercise...a range of human rights, and promote progress of a society as a whole” (United Nations 1). If the United States and its allies were to create a space colony, it would be safe to assume that such a colony would feature a democratic form of government. When this colony is developing laws, it is safe to assume that such laws would not differ much from what society currently deems as human rights…

Human rights, those rights that are endowed to every individual, has been a developing discourse, involving many factors, and aims to attain some basic level of equality amongst all humans. In 1948, the United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights (UNHDR) was enacted; this document, which emerged as a direct result of the atrocities committed during World War II, lists thirty not-legally binding articles, each outlining these intrinsic and inalienable rights. Among these, the following are…