... attack on the civilian island of Yeonpyeong, which killed two South Koreans, wounded at least 14 others, and set more than 60 buildings on fire (Lederer, Frayer). Russia initially called for the Security Council meeting, where Moscow proposed a draft statement that encouraged the U.N.'s most powerful body to request that North and South Korea "exercise maximum restraint" and urge immediate diplomatic ... crisis peacefully. Diplomats from the emergency session said that China objected to the North being singled out for criticism over the two deadly attacks, including the one on Yeonpyeon...

• Word Count: 820
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... have been a victim of many attacks ranging from car bombs to suicide bombers. We have initiated several consequences for any attempt of attacks or hostage plans. One example is the Yemeni Government issuing a decree in August 1998 implementing severe punishment--including execution--for kidnappers and stepped up enforcement of the law on unlicensed weapons in major cities. This was a result of Yemeni ... tourists died, and two others--including one US citizen--were wounded during a Yemeni Government rescue attempt that liberated the remaining hostages. Following the incident, the group i...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... prompt an intervention by the United Nations. Almost five months ago, protestors took to the streets, inspired by the recent government overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took advantage of the ... ...

• Word Count: 528
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... prompt an intervention by the United Nations. Almost five months ago, protestors took to the streets, inspired by the recent government overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took advantage of the ... ...

• Word Count: 528
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 ...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... militarization of space, the ballistic-missile defense program, unilateralism, the dismantling of international agreements, and the response to the Iraqi crisis - project a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our survival. If one combs through half a century of American history for vivid examples of military aggression cloaked in the sheep's clothing of "self-defense" (Cuba, Vietnam), "preventive warfare" (Granada, Nicaragua), "humanitarian ... opinion and run roughshod over international law -- thereby perpetrating terrorist acts as ruthless as those they oppose. The United Nat...

• Word Count: 624
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to help break the Israeli embargo on the Palestinian territory. Israel officials are threatening any foreign journalists who embark on the journey, saying they will be banned from entering Israel for the next decade and their equipment will be impounded. The warning came from a letter signed by the Government Press Office, saying the flotilla is "a dangerous provocation that is being organized ... to Gaza (Chick). The Foreign Press Association fought back in favor of the activists, saying journalists have a right to cover a legitimate news event and should not be threatened or intimidat...

• Word Count: 620
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Canadian government were to not provide aid in food security many people would go hungry and possibly die. Canadians can support and contribute to making a safe and reliable agricultural development for these countries. Without nutritious food the future generation`s chances of living a full life are slim. Today nearly half of the world`s population is under twenty-five years old, and ... , growing businesses and investing in the people themselves. The Canadian government provides opportunity and experience that helps governments of developing countries create and grow their economies a...

• Word Count: 1216
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... quickly dragged her from the hotel, but her message had been received. Journalists quickly took up a "Free al-Obeidy" campaign and pressed for answers (The Huffington Post). Since then, al-Obeidy's story surfaced in an audio interview with Anderson Cooper last month. She claimed she was abducted ... , she may be in even worse trouble. While she was awaiting resettlement as a refugee, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was busily preparing papers for her departure. During this time, Qatari authorities took her and her parents from a hotel in the capital city of Doha and...

• Word Count: 512
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... corporations have a powerful influence on the WTOs agenda. While it is ministers and their officials who conduct bsiness at WTO meetings, representatives from major corporations are often there to lobby for decisions which help their business, and they may even be part of the official delegation." Countries under structural adjustment want changes in the WTO. Madeley feels that countries placed under ... issues are increasing. The World Trade Organization is the primary international body to help promote free trade, by drawing up the rules of international trade. The WTO has been critic...

• Word Count: 1097
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and gentlemen that this is only a generic definition and there is more to globalization then there seems. I will address this in a moment. As for National Sovereignty, it is defined by Random House Dictionary as "a nation's freedom from external control- which is exactly what it is and of which ... the poor get poorer- applies perfectly to globalization. Even in the United States, inequality is increasing. According to Nancy Birdsall in a study for the United Nations, the income of the poorest 20 percent of households in this country has been steadily decreasing since 1970 while the incom...

• Word Count: 1098
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... be able to justify torture as morally mandatory at all. In the way that Levin has constructed the hypothetical scenario, he is making the following assumptions for justifying torture: 1) that the bomb actually exists; 2) that the person we have in custody is in fact the "right" person; and 3) that ... innocent person is so serious and morally offensive, we had better be absolutely certain about the facts in the case. Torture does not leave room for reasonable doubt. In addition, there is evidence that Levin's third assumption (that the torture will achieve its end) is unsupported. In ma...

• Word Count: 971
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... corporations have a powerful influence on the WTOs agenda. While it is ministers and their officials who conduct bsiness at WTO meetings, representatives from major corporations are often there to lobby for decisions which help their business, and they may even be part of the official delegation." Countries under structural adjustment want changes in the WTO. Madeley feels that countries placed under ... issues are increasing. The World Trade Organization is the primary international body to help promote free trade, by drawing up the rules of international trade. The WTO has been critic...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... "in the wrong place, at the wrong time." The following will attempt to justify the perspective that torture, when used exclusively for information gathering purposes vital to the well-being of a large citizenry, is justifiable, even if its moral and ethical justification isn't nearly as ... to have knowledge that individuals may perish but do nothing about it then it is morally reprehensible to enact pain on another individual for vital information? Is "do nothing" passivity that leads to violence less ethically questionable than active aggression that directly leads to ... Reports ind...

• Word Count: 1327
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of the aid. Although, the international community contributes to foreign aid, the United States is by far the largest contributor. This is evidenced by the existence of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), "the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential" (USAID). USAID aids ... , and incomes of the poor" (Rosenzweig, 116). They favor moving away from a larger, institutional framework to much smaller targeted efforts. This is similar to Easterly's argument for the tailored and...

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... was paramount. Many of these regional conflicts have had, and are having dramatic consequences on civilian populations. Whenever conventional or civil, these wars have been persecuted with ruthless disregard for civilian property and lives. Rape, torture, mutilation, and premeditated indiscriminate killing are all too common. This contrasts considerably from the "popular" wars of the 20th century. ... security when a refugee crisis emerges? And finally, what could the international community change in order to facilitate a better result in achieving security and ultimately protection for...

• Word Count: 3604
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... them in detail. Even so, the multi-faceted, pernicious consequences of this challenge to mankind need to be fully known to all to facilitate the formulation of effective anti-terrorist plans. Several countries, including the world's mightiest powers are affected bu the scourge of terrorism which has taken many forms, bomb explosions, assassinations, indiscrimate kilings, blackmail and threates of murder if ... ...

• Word Count: 269
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in concordance that the UNSC reform is necessary and urgent (Williams, 2006), there are fierce controversies over the detailed plans. Some proposals feature expansion of the size, drawing lesson from the 1963 reform. The main argument supporting these proposals is adding more countries can regain the representativeness of the ... this kind of sacrifice (Luck, 2006). Since the reform is troublesome, it has been proposed to dismantle the Council and find other ways out. For instance, Hakimi (2007) examines a legal security system without the UNSC authorization in Cuba, Grenada, Liberia and...

• Word Count: 1459
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... live under poverty2 , with a preponderance of them in developing countries within the African continent, demonstrating the link between poverty and child labour statistically. Child labour accounts for 22% of the workforce in Asia, 32% in Africa, 17% in Latin America, 1% in US, Canada, Europe and other wealthy nations. Bringing continents into ... work. Children from rural areas often come to urban city centers in search for jobs such as work in factories, houses, small shops, motels etc. Many children can be seen begging or hawking good such as newspapers, flowers etc on the roads of my...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... military matters in Europe. One of the main outcomes was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. This second front was important for Stalin, as it would help to take the pressure off the Russians on the Eastern Front. There was a belief that the Allies delayed it in hope of weakening the USSR ... leverage with Stalin. Truman hoped that Stalin's discovery of the American nuclear capability might stop Stalin from extending his communist expansion throughout Europe and influence Stalin to agree to America's plans. The Manhattan Project le...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... international law we have discussed the regime of innocence of passage. (Week ten) The lesson in its entirety was an education in the areas of air space, seas and other geographic areas of concern for the global community and their international law relationships. The next area of interest for the global community has to be cyber space. It is the one area of ... shopping on line. Just like a military information operation a business can target its sales message to specific types of customers thus focusing merchandising plans toward select clients. There is also the tracking and monitoring...

• Word Count: 6425
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in general, people have some kind of opinion and sometimes the popular opinion is not in favor of whatever decision was made. This was especially true for the use of the atomic bomb. The bombing of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki was a true devastation to Japan and people often only take into consideration what ... but given Japan's history of resistance the number of casualties would have exceeded that of the atomic bombing. The United States had already developed plans to invade Japan naming the plans, "Operation Downfall," and the execution of this plan had an estimate of 24,000 Japanese...

• Word Count: 1297
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... as World Health Day. They have now become an organization with over 7,000 people working in 150 countries, in six regional offices with the headquarters located in Geneva. All decisions for the WHO are made by the World Health Assembly. Each year, this group of delegates from 194 states around the world meet up in their headquarters and discuss on the ... : • providing leadership or even engaging in partnership where needed in critical matters of health • creating an outlook of a research that stimulates and enables minds to give valuable information for any particular subject at han...

• Word Count: 537
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of state sovereignty and nonintervention. The international society was repulsed by the process of ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, including the United Nations who failed to act upon the Tutsis cry for help. The UN and the rest of the world ignored Rwanda's obvious genocide, resulting in an estimated 800,000 deaths in 100 days. In an anarchic system where states are ... also offered unclear directions. Apart of these directions were banning the peacekeepers from using force on Rwandans, let alone for their own safety. The UN was convinced that sending in troops would have threatened any cha...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... deleterious effects as harm to living resources and marine life, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities, including fishing and other legitimate uses of the sea, impairment of quality for use of sea water and reduction of amenities." (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982). Article 195 of UNCLOS III, obliges the participant states to " ... to establish the obligation to alert the regional counterparts about forthcoming risks or actual damage to marine resources from pollution. Another obligation to the nations is working together on regional plans to preven...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate