United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Feelings in Mind Along with the development of technology, there are great changes in people’s daily lives. On the one hand, the use of technology in various territories brings people great convenience. On the other hand, these advanced techniques may cause some problems in social and personal aspects. In the essay “Alone Together”, the author, Sherry Turkle, illustrates that the technology not only does offer convenience to people, but also leads people to have…

Indeed, Choudhury (2006) defends investments on private sector with the purpose of bettering food transportation. While developed countries have modern systems such as railroad and highway that allow food transit efficiently, in third-world nations, some cultures are transported by bicycles and animals. Also the infrastructure for roads and energy transmission may be developed in order to raise the transport efficiency requiring engineered facilities on farms to consumer market. The Institution…

On both a national and international scale, Violence against Women is one of the most universally violated human rights; as outlined in the United Nation’s ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’, Article 3 “everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” In Australia alone over one woman a week is killed by someone known to them; this year 57 women have been murdered by a current or former partner in Australia, not including unreported or unsolved cases. Whilst a variety of…

Over the past years, industrialized nations, such as the United States (U.S.) and Europe, have ridded their nations of waste by participating in the international waste trade. The international waste trade is when industrialized nations export toxic wastes created in their country and relocate it to other undeveloped countries. This has become a debate issues due to various factors. In 1987, Sunday Nana, a Nigerian, illegally signed a contract allowing Italians, Renato Pent and Gianfranco…

As Kaufman explains: “All states will benefit from the flourishing of free markets and open exchange of ideas,” (Kaufman, Page 53). Access to free trade creates the opportunity for more nation-states to become independent actors within the world, while still being a part of the global economic system. Following the concept of independent and democratic freedom,…

television, print media and through offering range of services to repatriated and rescued victims. Take the case of Edo State in Nigeria that has been idealised for illicit trafficking of women for sexual exploitation. Hence, with the assistance of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and numbers of Ngo in Edo state, the organisations were able to combat trafficking women out of Edo state and European countries. For…

Does the United Nations (UN) care about women? This is a controversial topic because it examines if one of the worlds largest and most powerful international governance organizations considers women to be important. The assumption would be that the UN holds an obligation to women as half the world 's population, but Cynthia Enloe in her most recent lecture highlighted the ways women are working to be recognized and protected by the UN. Enloe began by describing the structure of the UN, which…

but most third world countries have deep cultural and religious beliefs that prevent women from gaining equality. Small steps, such as first recognizing that the atrocities that occur are specifically women’s rights violations as Catherine Mackinnon states in Rape, Genocide, and Women’s Human Rights, can lead to slowly changing our global society about views and treatment of women. As Susan Sontag asserts in Regarding the Pain of Others, we attempt to “numb” ourselves to images of suffering in…

Social sustainability has gained increased recognition for being key aspects of the sustainability debate in recent years. Previously, the concepts of environmental and economic sustainability were dominant in the social sustainability debate and it wasn’t until the 1990s that social issues of society were added into the subject of sustainability (Drexhage and Murphy, 2010). Social sustainability is defined by “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of…

Just because there is no in your face example at the moment on the effect of food aid does not mean that it is still not happening today. Food aid is still causing issues in developing nations around the world. Causing local farmers’ efforts to become economically sufficient to be undermined. Society needs to address the negative effects it is having on developing regions before it gets out of hand and we completely destroy markets that…