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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... »
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... »
Will Women’s Rights Take a Backseat to the Economic After-Shocks of Chilean Quake?
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunamis that hit the coast of Chile on February 27th left more than 700 people dead and hundreds of thousands more without homes, food, and water. With an estimated $30 billion in economic damage, Chilean President-elect Sebastian Piñera will have his hands full as he tries to lead... »
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... »
Human Rights Violations and Health: Need to Target Both in Conflict
The last few decades have brought enormous amount of human suffering through the conflicts. The conflicts threatened health of those affected and contributed to widespread human rights violations. Recognizing the link between human rights violations and health, as well as targeting both human rights and health simultaneously by human rights workers and health professionals... »
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... »
Epic Failure: The Usurping of Law & It’s Lack of Consequences
Torture. This single two-syllable word has the ability to conjure dozens of images and expressions: barbaric, pain, inhumane, Abu Ghraib, and, most importantly for the purposes of this paper, illegal. Torture and its techniques have been outlawed by both international and domestic law for dozens of years. And, as with all laws, this derives... »
Famine in Africa: A Lost Cause?
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired is, in a sense, a theft from those who hunger & are not fed, those who are cold & are not clothed.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953) While the definition of famine varies depending on the organization, the United States Agency for... »
Land from a Human Rights Viewpoint
Land acquisition for infrastructure development projects remains one of the most contentious issues in India today. Policy initiatives need to view this issue through a human rights perspective to understand the essence o development first. This is written firstly assuming that economic development is set to be the dominant and irreversible process given societal,... »
South Korea’s challenge to privatize the health care plan.
South Korea’s national health care began in 1977 as president Park Chung Hee declared his 4th 5-year economic development plan. To improve the health of workers and facilitate operation of business and economy, the national health care, initially, covered the employees of business sectors with more than 500 employees and the people who were... »