prostitution and pedophilia and more than 150 other allegations have been uncovered by UN investigators‚ all perpetrated by UN peacekeepers‚ specifically ones from Pakistan‚ Uruguay‚ Morocco‚ Tunisia‚ South Africa and Nepal. Peacekeepers from three of those nations are also accused of obstructing the investigation.[ • Also‚ a French UN logistics expert in Congo was charged of rape and child pornography in the same month. The BBC reported that young girls were abducted and raped by UN peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince
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A multi national enterprise (MNE’s) is defined as a business‚ which owns or controls foreign subsidiaries in more than one country (Host nation). These are also called transnational corporations (TC’s). Multi national enterprises cover the entire spectrum of businesses‚ including manufacturing‚ agriculture‚ service provision and finance. These can be vast‚ well known companies or smaller specialist firms. There are three different types of MNE’s which all have different primary motives. Horizontally
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Oppression among First Nations peoples in Canada The detrimental enforcement of colonialism sparked an era of oppression that has altered‚ even destroyed years of cultural and spiritual traditions by creating a forced lifestyle that changed the face of First Nations peoples forever. Forced European culture resulted in the diminishing of Firsts Nations values and rights. A cycle of social‚ physical‚ and spiritual obliteration resulted from the dispossession of First Nations lands and the implementation
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League of Nations was an organisation designed to maintain peace throughout the World. It was created during the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was the idea of Woodrow Wilson‚ the president of the USA. The League’s main aims were to bring together all nations in a parliament to discuss and settle disputes‚ to protect the independence of countries and safeguard their borders‚ to improve peoples living and working conditions‚ and to make war obsolete by persuading nations to disarm.
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A Nation of Lords The Autobiography of the Vice Lords David Dawley Dave Sobotka Crim 455 Gangs and Gangs Control Mr. Danny Madrid As you have read much of these books required for these book reports‚ I will do my best to give you what my thoughts about this book is about. So by starting off this book has opened my eyes and perspective about how the gang in the early years and now to the present times of gangs has changed for everyone including the Vice Lords as a gang. In the beginning of this
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“IDIOT NATION” In this particular story‚ Michael Moore claims that the United States school system is so corrupt meaning that children are not getting the proper education that is needed. That the politicians and people of power are placing blame on the teachers and not themselves for how the school systems are being ran. In the beginning he uses what I like to call as a harsh diction of wording about the U.S. education system and then proceeds to use emotional strategy to get the reader to feel
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser discusses the fast food industry in depth. Many aspects of this industry are analyzed‚ from the inhumane treatment of the cattle in their feedlots to the overworked and underpaid employees at fast food restaurants. Although this book only looks at the American fast food industry‚ it is becoming identical for the rest of the world due to globalization. This book provides a realistic‚ yet depressing‚ view of what our society is coming to. It addresses numerous problems
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events and people. These events and people were the foundation for the development of a nation. The obstacles that were faced by those that settled and developed America were not only on unknown soil but were centered on the unknown in general. During the 17th‚ 18th‚ and 19th centuries there were people and events which I believe influenced history and were turning points in the development of a great nation. A significant point in history which occurred during the 17th century was in 1607 when
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CHALLENGES TO THE DEMOCRATISATION OF POST-COMMUNIST NATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE Outline Background..................................................................................3 Elements of Modern Democracy.................................................4 Inherent Problems in Pre-Communist History.............................5 Problems of Post-Communism....................................................6 Political Challenges................
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Some have argued that over the past nearly 150 years‚ Canada has matured and evolved into a "nation" in the sense that it has become "a community of the imagination." That definition sees a nation as a place where the people within its borders display a sense of common identity‚ and agree on certain values. I agree to this argument as applied to Canada’s evolution since 1867. Canada’s identity and values started out very weak after Confederation in 1867. We begin to fully develop a stronger Canadian
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