Int’l Econ
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... »
Social Accountability of Individuals
After reading Ackerman’s article on “Human Rights and Social Accountability”, it seems apparent that no matter the program, much of the responsibility pertaining to human rights relies on individual and civic action. While governmental action may have some impact, it seems as though there are many more changes that appear to be affective as... »
Wealth through Development
It is normal for human beings to demand their rights, no matter what the cost. There is no pleasure in living if one’s rights have been deprived. A good lifestyle does not rely only on material survival alone. A decent life requires human rights that the individuals should enjoy without interference from the government.... »
Who Owns the Soil? The Promise of Civic Agriculture and Human Rights Education
The ability to access healthy food in a developed country likely attracts less attention than developing nations struggling to feed their own growing populations. And yet, debates over eco farming practices, GMOs, and other issues connected to land ownership and resource availability are global in scope. Because food insecurities everywhere undermine the right to... »
The Future of Afghan Children
In the State Department’s “Country Report on Human Rights Practices” written in 2001, there were multiple large scale human rights violations that transpired at the hands of the Taliban. These violations ran the gamut of articles written in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and as the State Department report describes... »
The Insufficient Policies in Eradicating Poverty
The role of policies in poverty eradication, in close co-operation with other social sector is crucial. No country would succeed if it has not developed policies on eradicating poverty and for the well being of its people. The recognition of the issue of eradicating extreme poverty gave its collective commitment to work towards the... »
Analyzing the speeches at the 65th & 66th meetings of the General Assembly- December 2008
Introduction On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations held meetings in December 2008 in commemoration of the achievement. As part of the ceremony, statements were given by fourteen member countries representing different regions of the world. The aim... »
Development Aid and its Limitations
Pogge states that the aggregate shortfall from the World Bank’s $2/day poverty line of all those 40 percent of human beings who now live below this line amounts to only 0.7 percent of the global product or less than 1 percent of the combined GNIs of the high-income countries. My first critique was to... »
Yes, it’s the largest violation of all
According to the philosopher Thomas Pogge, poverty is not only a violation of human rights but also the largest human right violation we face nowadays. In his book “World Poverty and Human Rights”, he states that “some 18 million human beings avoidably die each year from diseases we can prevent, cure or treat” and... »
The Eye of the Beholder
Economist would have us think there are too few resources to meet the expanded needs of the world’s population. We can deduce from Professor Ajay Mahal’s lecture two premises to challenge. One is, do human needs truly exceed the existing goods and services relative to their resources and the other, how can societies avoid... »