Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia “They have robbed me. They took away my power and left me a cripple. My womanhood was stolen. If God had wanted those body parts missing‚ why did he create them?” - Waris Dirie Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is defined by the World Health Organization as “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia‚ or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons” (WHO). FGM is both a health and human rights
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Everyday children are being forced to be a child soldier‚ is your child next? Imagine your child having to get high off of cane juice and gunpowder. These boys and girls‚ some as young as 8 years old‚ serve in government forces and armed groups. They may fight on the front lines‚ participate in suicide missions‚ and act as spies‚ messengers‚ or lookouts. Child soldiers are being taken from their families and relocated in Uganda and Somalia. Although people may think it is just a recent event‚
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found frequently off the shore of the African country of Somalia‚ and they use small metal skiffs and advanced weapons such as rocket launchers and machine guns. The new pirates of today have become a huge problem that the entire global community needs to take seriously and deal with immediately. Any effective solution to this modern-day problem will require the United Nations to become involved by sending humanitarian aid to the people of Somalia; assisting in the formation of a stable Somalian government
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Soc 355: Minority Group Relations Somalia Presentation Paper When I walked into the presentation tonight I had no idea what to expect. I thought for a second it might be another presentation that just simply bores the audience with listing statistics of bullies in schools or dealing with discrimination that I would never come across or face. It was not though; the presentation was a real experience. In a sense‚ it could have been too real. Somalia is a country that is located on the far
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Piracy in Somalia Crisis around the Horn of Africa Bryant W. Abstract Piracy is a global concern that dates back thousands of years; however‚ it has taken new depth of mayhem in the modern age. The piracy in Somalia is a problem in the international shipping industry and imposes damage to ships and theft of cargo along the Horn of Africa. It causes water pollution off the Somali coast‚ considerable loss of life‚ and deteriorates the effectiveness of the shipping industry. Because of the
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Outline Thesis: Modern seaborne piracy off the coast of Somalia can be controlled by making Somalia more safe and stable‚ improving the infrastructure‚ and finding individual or private solutions. Introduction I. Making Somalia more safe and stable A. Starting an effective government B. Establishing higher demands of security II. Improving Infrastructures A. Forming a steady and firm framework B. Creating and enforcing treaties
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whether or not child soldiers should be forgiven for what they have been forced to do. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because‚ they have no control over their life‚ they were under a bad influence‚ and they were forced to fight. Child soldiers should receive amnesty because‚ at a young age these adolescents had no control
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The major conflict that caused the use of child soldiers was the Rwandan civil war in 1994. Rwanda is the country located right next to the Congo. Rwandan Hutu rebels known as Interahamwe fled to the Dominican Republic of the Congo (DRC) after fearing their reprisals for their part in the mass killing of Rwandan Tutsis and joined forces with the Zairian army in 1998 to launch an offensive against the Congolese Tutsis in eastern Zaire. This erupted after the Belgian rule rewarded Tutsis with a Western
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These young innocent children are being turned into child soldiers and forced to drugs and be brainwashed so they stay attached to the rebel army group or the government. They lose their family‚ childhood and forced to handle guns. Imagine if that was you. In some parts of the world such as some parts of Africa‚ Liberia there is a tremendous dispute over should child soldiers be given amnesty. In the first body paragraph‚ child soldiers should be given amnesty because they are forced to fight
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Child Soldiers A lot of poverty stricken countries use children from ages five to seventeen in warfare. They take children from their homes‚ and turn them into deadly killers. When the children come back to their homes‚ they are seen as outcasts and untrustworthy. They have no education‚ or social skills. Using children as soldiers damages learning‚ social skills‚ and how they act later in life. There are more than thirty thousand children around the world that are soldiers (Gettleman). The
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