2010
2010 World Poverty and Human Rights Student Area
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,... »
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... »
President Evo Morales on Bolivia’s Human Rights and Development Issues
Evo Morales Ayma is a man who wears many titles – coca grower, labor leader, and president of Bolivia. Presiding over a country wherein 64 percent of citizens live in poverty conditions, this President possesses insights into their situation that his predecessors have lacked. Born in the Andes Highlands in the colonial mining city... »
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... »
Empowering Women in the Time of Inequality
In the past few decades, American society has been made aware of empowering women through education on the right to equality. Despite the broadening of awareness, equality for women has not been achieved. Education is supposed to be the great equalizer in all societies-a process by which the disadvantaged get their chance to be... »
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... »
The real importance of democracy*
In our readings for this course, we usually see that the authors consider democracy an advantage or even an essential aspect in the process of achieving development and human rights. Sen (pp. 43), for example, exemplifies his reflections in a chapter saying that “there are real handicaps that China experiences compared with India because... »
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... »