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issues tearing apart African people. The grittiness of civil war and mass chaos are all but ignored as China steps carefully into place around resources. The United Nations and America are much further from controlling the resources China has secured. Wading into the mess that is civil wars and true suffering of a people has sidetracked many nations from challenging China for control. Nevermind the fact that China’s Economy is one of the strongest in the…

Everyone is born protected by human rights. For example, the right to life and the right to live free of discrimination are two fundamental human rights, among many others. Everyone is protected by these rights; at least, everyone should be. However, there are people who face threats and violations to their basic human rights every day, and they suffer because of it. The novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card illustrates the issue of the right to be treated fairly and equally regardless of age…

organization created in 1997 in order to uphold an arms control treaty known as the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, or the Chemical Weapons Convention. Only four United Nations member states are not part of the OPCW—Israel, Egypt, Sudan, and North Korea; they have not ratified the CWC. The OPCW’s main purpose is to destroy existing chemical weapons and to monitor the chemical industry in order to prevent…

authority and is subject to regulation - hence Charter I, Article 2.7 that stipulates the principles of sovereignty will not prejudice the application of enforcement measures listed under Chapter VII relating to responses to threats to peace (United Nations). Despite these norms, the conduct of governments in the treatment of their people has increasingly become an area of concern in the international arena in recent decades (Wheeler 1992: 478). The ICISS report argues that rather than the…

Introduction According to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, is a management concept whereby organizations integrate social and environmental concerns into their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders. CSR requires that organizations focus more than just profits. CSR demands that organizations demonstrate social responsibility by addressing social concerns, economic concerns and environmental concerns. Today’s…

weekend. Another way to look at it, North Korea was testing the missiles to proof to the western nation that they also have enough power to control the world. However, they also feel threatened by the U.S. that they will overreact and get involved with North Korea. Without a warning from the United Nation and the U.S, North Korea still want to develop nuclear weapon to show that it is not a weak nation compared to others. In Guess Who’s Coming to dinner, North Korea is like Dr. Prentice. In a…

Burke, Jason, and Phil Hatcher-Moore. “’If you are old enough to carry a gun, you are old enough to be a soldier’”. The Guardian, July 24, 2017. Accessed October 22, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/24/south-sudan-child-soldiers This article provides a qualitative narrative of the child soldier conflict in South Sudan and the experiences that they have. This article follows several child soldiers, such as David Zelu, a fifteen-year old from South Sudan, who is a…

Genocide in Rwanda When we think about Genocide we usually think of what happened during the Holocaust as the best case scenario for genocide in our history, but there were other Genocide that occurred in the world one come to mind in Rwanda. In this paper I will be focusing the history of Rwanda and the 1994 Genocide. What are the different theories that explain the Genocide in Rwanda and which ethnic conflict theory best fits the Genocide in Rwanda? Rwanda is a landlocked East African…

being forced to partake in a demeaning industry where they are forced to due hard labor with little to no pay. Land grabbing leaves families in a state of loss and anger. Freedom of speech and expression takes away the right the citizens had when the United States brought democracy to the country, leaving their thoughts private and limited. Disregarding their limits on speech and expression can result in penalty in prison. Human trafficking takes young children, mainly girls, and has them as sex…

homes and can be taken to different countries completely. Human trafficking is modern slavery and a huge issue globally with an increasing number of international organizations pushing to prevent this atrocity, such as Anti-Slavery International, United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking and Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, which we will examine…