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Urgency for Daisy
A good friend working at a local women’s shelter told me that Daisy was in the hospital, having suffered a severe aneurism. A doctor, however, would not be available until Monday. There was no urgency during Chinese New Year it seemed, so I decided to pay her a visit. Daisy was 17, HIV positive,... »
Gabon’s Lords of Poverty
Gabon’s Lords of Poverty Gabon’s Ba’aka pygmy population may soon be saying au revoir to smoked fish and nihao to tofu, if the $3.5 billion Belinga iron-ore mining deal, awarded to a Chinese consortium in 2006, goes off without a hitch. The ore, billed as one of the world’s last remaining major untapped deposits,... »
Governance and Development: Iraq after the US invasion
Governance and Development: By: Carol Blenda Reyes Avila The loss of life continues to rise in the US-led invasion of Iraq as both proponents and detractors of the war begin to question the almost certain human rights violations that are occurring. Overseeing the establishment of a sound and appropriate government once appeared to be... »
Human Trafficking: What a Perfected Business!
A lot of us think that success had come in the beginning of the 1800’s with the demise of the transatlantic slave trade, but pretty tragically, the incidence of slavery is more pervasive now, than ever before. There are an estimated 27 mm. slaves in the world today, more than at any other time... »
Sovereign Immunity: Samantar v. Yousuf
Human rights violations, war crimes, and international humanitarian law in the context of “Failed States” and “Civil Wars” are permeating into global discourse at a steady pace. While a few celebrated cases have dominated international attention, the “rules of accountability” are an organic process with growing pains. One of the main issues that hinder... »
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... »
Obama’s FY 2011 Global Health Initiative Budget Missing The Mark
It is impossible to separate HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention from the issue of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health however; it appears the President’s FY 2011 Foreign Affairs budget is attempting to do just that. It is also impossible to separate these issues from women’s rights as human rights. The basic human... »
The Value of Human Beings
To defend the rights of individuals is to guarantee that they have a decent level of treatment as human beings. To violate these rights is to consider those individuals as less than humans. Human beings who live in severe poverty have rights, and they do not deserve to suffer. At least this is what... »
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... »
The Quality of Life Around The Globe
Professor Marks raised a critical point in class by talking about the importance of urbanism and the right to adequate housing as a Human Right. But if we look at some places around the globe such as the Kibera slum located in Nairobi – (one of the most crowded places on earth,) we can... »