Eman al-Obeidy's turbulence continues as she was deported from Qatar back to Benghazi in Libya recently (Robertson). In March, al-Obeidy made international headlines after she burst into a hotel full of journalists in Tripoli claiming that 15 of Gaddafi's men had beaten and raped her. Libyan officials quickly dragged her from the hotel, but her message had been received. Journalists quickly took ... a refugee document (The Huffington Post). Despite the original relief al-Obeidy's family felt after hearing about her escape, she may be in even worse trouble. While she was awaiting resettlement ...

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... instrument of the United Nations. It is responsible for setting out the rights and obligations of Member States, and establishing the Organization's organs and procedures. Although the United Nations is much larger, there are six principal organs that should be recognized. They are the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice, and Secretariat. The ... ...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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Recently, addressing a gathering of Indian industrialists, a union minister opined that it was not fair to compare the progress of the Indian economy with that of China as the former was restricted in its maneuvers, being a democracy. Is there merit in the minister's assertion? Is a democratic setup a dampener to economic growth? Let us examine this further. Data showing ... ...

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... men go out to be bread-winners and do not look back at the housework or taking care of children. Women are put up to the never-ending struggle against dust, stains, mud and dirt because men do not contribute to housework, even if their partners are in full-time work. So ... why those countries are economically struggling. For a nation to succeed, the men and women have to join hands to create a workforce twice as active. The achievement of full equality between the sexes is essential to human progress and the transformation of society. Inequality restricts not only the advancement of .....

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... parts of the United Nations are the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice and Secretariat. The United Nations family, however, is much larger; encompassing 15 agencies and several programs and bodies. One of the primary purposes of the United Nations is the maintaining of international peace and security. Since its creation, the ... Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia-Eritrea led the Council to establish six new missions in 1998-2000. The experience of recent years has also led the United Nations to focus as n...

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... area of 1,246,699 square kilometers. The population of Angola is around 8.5 million and the religions in the country include Roman Catholic, Protestant, and traditional religions. The rebel group known as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) however, is currently fighting a civil war against the Luanda government to gain power in the country (Angola Report 1-2). After almost ... the country during the war for independence leaving a severe shortage of political and economic skills. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) formed a government und...

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The United Nations Children's Fund, more colloquially known as UNICEF, is the main United Nations organization defending, promoting and protecting children's rights. Its main focus is working towards protecting the world's most disadvantaged children. It believes that children have ... support in Child Friendly Spaces (CFS), Adolescent Friendly Spaces, school clubs, and Child Protection Unit outreach initiatives[UNI]. Overall, I think UNICEF is very successful with helping the children of Syria, as they have already achieved so many of their goals and have benefited millions of people throug...

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... than one billion people still live in extreme poverty and for many, living standards are getting steadily worse."" However, the report notes "If global progress continues at the same pace as in the 1990s, only the Millennium Development Goals of halving income poverty and halving the proportion of people without access to safe water stand a realistic chance of being met, thanks ... a major roles in falling fertility rates."" This notion of synergies among social investments is central to reducing hunger, malnutrition, disease and illiteracy - and to advancing human capabilities, said th...

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... showing his dislike and distrust of the Soviets than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Truman believed Roosevelt was too soft with Stalin and that he did not stand up to the Soviets as much as Truman believed the Americans/Western Powers should have. Truman's outburst shocked and angered the Soviets, which contributed to increasing tensions between the Soviets and the Americans. Truman did not really ... ...

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... inspections to run through to completion, and invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein based upon their own intelligence and foreign policy stances. They were supported by Australia, Spain and Poland, as well as what some would call a "coalition" of moral backers. Despite some suggestions that the UN is becoming irrelevant and may be another League of Nations and so should be dissolved ... ...

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... and social sectors. Health conditions in developing countries are poor compared with industrialzed countries due to standard of living and foods. developing countries are more likely to sperad epidemic such as SARS and Ebola than industrialized countries. Nowadays, every nations are interconnected and millions of people travels around the world everyday. Due to such factors, epidamic can also spread all over ... countries should take part in active role in the development of educational sectors in developing countries for these reasons. Every countries can not stand alone and rely of ea...

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... is unlikely to be one hundred percent effective, it will have to be used alongside wide ranging and effective prevention programs. Distribution of any vaccine will be another difficult challenge, as many of the countries hit hardest by AIDS lack the necessary healthcare areas to administrate such a large scale immunization program. To help fight the epidemic, United States President George W. Bush ... in November two thousand two. While this is good news, any vaccine for HIV/AIDS is still years from being available to the public. Before any vaccine can be licensed as safe and effective,...

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... the Soviet Union, stretching from the late 1940s to the late 1980s when Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR ceased to exist. The two superpowers faced each other as leaders of conflicting political, economic and ideological alliances; became engaged in a nuclear arms race; and fought surrogate wars with each other in various locations in the Third World, from Korean ... East-West tension. The United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles. The Soviet Union, however, tried control areas it considered vital to its national interest, inclu...

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... objective of His Majesty's Government is the establishment within 10 years of an independent Palestine State in such treaty relations with the United Kingdom as will provide satisfactorily for the commercial and strategic requirements of both countries in the future."1 This section has clearly illustrated that within ... handed over to the UN by Great Britain, under the circumstances that tension was escalating between the Arabs and the Jews, and becoming too much for the British to control. . Due to the repetitive conflicts regarding Palestine, it had led to the UN developing the United...

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... is being organized by Western and Islamic extremist elements to aid Hamas" (Chick). Israel defense forces are expected to interfere with the flotilla's passage before it even reaches Israel (Weiss). "As the Director of the Government Press Office, I would like to make it clear to you and to the media that you represent that participation in the flotilla is an intentional ... the set date, including the American ship Audacity of Hope (Weiss). Many international leaders are stepping forward to urge the activists to call off the expedition. "Ultra left politicians such as Dun Laoghaire Rat...

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... North being singled out for criticism over the two deadly attacks, including the one on Yeonpyeong (Lederer). Tensions continue to rise as South Korea's military plans to conduct live-fire drills for an entire day on the island of Yeonpyeong, the same island that the North attacked ... last month as the South conducted a similar exercise. China and Russia, North Korea's closest allies, expressed concern about these military plans. North Korea promised a " ... month if it were attacked again (Lederer). South Korea defended itself stating that the drills were merely routine procedures, de...

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Instituto de Defense Legal - Legal Defense Institute The mission of the Legal Defense Institute is to defend and promote human rights as a part of bringing peace to Peru and consolidating its democratic institutions. They work for the human rights of the people in their country and for peace. They also want to ... mobilize citizens to develop a common platform. Other means of education and communication are regional meetings, participation in the Peruvian Network in Education in Human Rights, and production of radio programs as educational material. They even have their own weekly radio prog...

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Human Rights as a Common Concern The doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive role in international life. Primarily, the doctrine is a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institutions, a standard of ... has come to play a distinctive and in some respects an unexpected role in international life. Perhaps the most visible is the increasing willingness to regard concern about human rights violations as an acceptable justification for various kinds of international intervention, ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military action. Human rights have serv...

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... strongly migration is related to the rising occurrences of trafficking in women, mail-order brides and the growths of sex tourisms. Mediators discussed the fact that the reasons for so much human trafficking between genders is because of the rising numbers of women who migrate just to engage in sexual activities away from home. They feel that most women do this ... (HumanTrafficking.org). One must remember that criminals exist in every country in the world that does these crimes of human trafficking. Criminals target not only the women and young girls but also men and young boys. Becaus...

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... advances in India have enabled this country to obtain water faster and more efficiently by pumping it through aquifers. However, water is currently being pumped out of these aquifers twice as fast as rainfall is filling them. Logic tells us that this type of situation cannot continue indefinitely into the future. Many developing nations are finding the amount of land available for ... a projected $17 billion budget, with Developed nations contributing 1/3 of the financing and Third World countries providing the remaining 2/3. Under-developed countries have held up their end of the bargain...

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... policies by national govenrments to prevent global institutions" and other national governments" benefit. Also at British Museum on November 16, 2000 during a lecture Nelson Mandela said that globalisation is inevitable but then he added " if globalisation is to create real peace and stability across the world, it must be a process benefiting all. It must not allow the most economically and politically ... richer the remainder farmers are getting poorer. These systems are the methods of collonialism and exploitation of the south countries.( Jenner, 2001 ) To sum up, Fernald's argument c...

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Today slavery has a much broader meaning than it's definition a century ago. Today slavery takes on many forms; however, all the forms are degrading to the human existence and oppressive to any individual. The United Nations recently defined slavery as "a variety of human rights violations. In addition to traditional slavery and the slave trade, these abuses include the sale of children, child prostitution, child ... the sale of human organs, the exploitation of prostitution, and certain practices under apartheid and colonial regimes". This description of slavery makes it hard to pin point it...

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The source presented is displaying a negative aspect to internationalism as it is taking about isolation and how it damages or doesn't answer social life for individuals, nor politics for nations. ... non-sovereign nation-state from a particular being or person. Another key term defined in the source is "isolement". Isolement could also be referred to as isolation and this defines the ignorance of globalization or a global community for a particular nation or country. This declines any or all access to the outside world ... many countries can improve greatly. Many countries like Canada, or the...

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... South Sudan in March 2012 was a critical event in the history of central Africa. The consequent Political fallout followed by a proclamation of independence of South Sudan and its official recognition as a sovereign state caused difficulties in establishing a boundary between two countries. Both states advocated the common ownership over oil rich regions between North and South which aggravated into a civil war ... of the Sudanese conflict: geographical and ethnographical.2 The basis of conflict is long-standing ethnic discord between two worlds of Muslim in the north and Christians in t...

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