Education
Education; The Key To National Development
Education is a human right. A primary cause of poverty is ignorance. Many third world citizens are uneducated and unskilled. Impoverished people must be informed regarding the steps needed to break the poverty cycle. There needs to be a development strategy for impoverished nations, which focuses upon training citizens for a technical skill, informing... »
Prison: The New South
Slavery went from the hands of the people to the hands of the government. Milton Meltzer stated that slavery lingers. “Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have climbed to power and glory on the backs of... »
Children in the Lord’s Resistance Army
According to a 2008 publication written by Khristopher Carlson & Dyan Mazurana the number of forced marriages within the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda had reached a number of over 60,000 Ugandan children. According to the documentary Invisible Children, within the LRA it is believed that 90% of troops are abducted children. Since... »
The Multiple Dimensions of the Right to Life
The right to life is the assertion that people have a fundamental right to not be killed. It goes back to such documents as the preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776 and Article Three of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948. Within the UDHR’s broad framework, the... »
Development and Education
In an article entitled, CONFINTEA: Education in a context of multiple crises, David Archer outlines the impact of the current global financial crisis on education in general and on adult education specifically. He points out the critical fact that “few governments have prioritized funding for adult learning and almost no donors.” This is of... »
Rights Based Approach Critical to Haiti’s Recovery
As news reports and video continue to reveal the extent of devastation Haiti suffered during the massive earthquake on January 12th, people from around the world are opening their purses to help the impoverished survivors of the 150,000 Haitians killed. At the onset of most natural disasters, fundraising is high and effective, but this... »
Can an Individual’s Mentality Affect Their Level of Poverty?
An individual’s mentality affects one’s levels of aspiration, and in turn, the ability to provide for oneself. This is associated with poverty on several different levels. Cash incentives cannot necessarily create the desire to rid oneself of a position of poverty. Addressing the issue of desire versus motivation is an aspect to observe when... »
Story of Pyongyang University of Science & Technology (“PUST”) Founded By a Capitalist
By Man Ki, Kim It is perplexing that North Korea, with its longstanding human rights abuse and obstruction of development, would allow the establishment of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), where capitalists teach Western values of education. North Korea might be one of the few countries to claim rights based on the... »
Ancient Amazon Tribe’s Handling By Oil Giants Is Litmus Test for 21st Century Respect for Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Matses Tribe of Peru is an endangered indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest, dwindling like the Amazonian Rainforest due to pressures not of culture on their ancient ways, but of a corporate oil company’s desire to exploit the area that they have made their home for hundreds of years. Rights to the area... »
EXPANDING LITERACY: A KEY FOR DEVELOPMENT
In many countries we observed the importance of the literacy, as a way for maintain a culture, a social development way or just like a compromise with international agreements as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In this point we can converge with some vision about the elemental right that literacy represents... »