4.1.1. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at its 62nd session in September 2007. (UN Portal) It is not a legally binding instrument but represents a very important political step towards a binding recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples. The declaration explicitly guarantees indigenous peoples - as collectives but also for individual members - a right to the enjoyment
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*Comparative/Contrast Assessment*: Fast Food Nation **and The Jungle Similar to the many real-life stories told by Schlosser in his written depiction of the fast food industry‚ The Jungleby Upton Sinclair is a notable relation of the same type of horrors. Unlike Schlosser‚ though‚ Sinclair writes his book in a fictional story line‚ in which he included great models of figurative language and imagery that strategically capture the reader in a world full of sympathy and belief. In this manner
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As it was in the past‚ the main function of the UN today is to maintain peace and security for all of its member states. Though the UN does not maintain its own military‚ it does have peacekeeping forces which are supplied by its member states. On approval of the UN Security Council‚ these peacekeepers are often sent to regions where armed conflict has recently ended to discourage combatants from resuming fighting. In 1988‚ the peacekeeping force won a Nobel Peace Prize for its actions. In addition
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businesses in a shady manner going undetected. Americans had turned a blind eye to where and to how their food was being processed. In his efforts to solve this issue by raising awareness to adults across the country‚ Eric Schlosser wrote‚ Fast Food Nation‚ to expose America to the truths behind the food industry. He clearly conveys his case with vivid descriptions‚ personal narrations and excellent exemplification that leave a strong impact on any reader. Through the use of multiple rhetorical strategies
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detailing the seriousness of her illness. Although she states in her Epilogue that she does not know what reason exactly compelled to write this memoir‚ she does delineate some elements that motivated her‚ such as the desire for people to understand the Prozac ‘situation’ as well as citing simple reasons‚ such as the need to express one’s story‚ and her own personal need to vent out on paper when so many people‚ she felt‚ needed to know. Her descriptions in the book try to elucidate what depression really
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has impacted the lives of millions of people‚ including children‚ that once lived in their developing home country to be forced out to be able to escape natural disasters‚ prosecution‚ to escape from war‚ etc. The UNHCR has participated actively during the aftermath of the Second World War‚ during the Hungarian Revolution and so on. The UNHCR was created to protect these innocent lives and with the contribution from Angelina Jolie holding
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The United Nations is a worldwide organization created after WWII whose main purposes are stated in the UN Charter. It is commonly perceived that the UN was created after WWII with one purpose‚ to prevent a future world war‚ and although this is somewhat true the purposes of the UN are most appropriately stated in Chapter I‚ Article I of the UN Charter. First‚ “to maintain international peace and security‚ and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Eric Schlosser. New York‚ NY: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 2001‚ 383 pp. Notes. $13.95. "This book is about fast food‚ the values it embodies‚ and the world it has made‚" writes Eric Schlosser in the introduction of his book‚ Fast Food Nation. His argument against fast food is based on the premise that "the real price never appears on the menu." The "real price‚" according to Schlosser‚ ranges from obliterating small business‚ spreading pathogenic
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What were the causes of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935-36 and what where the consequences for the League of Nations. The invasion of Abyssinia took place in 1935-36 when Benito Mussolini‚ the Italian dictator invaded Abyssinia with no apparent reason. It was a diplomatic crisis which showed the league was weak and was one of the biggest failures‚ if not the biggest which ended Europe’s peace and allowed Italy to become more fascist and in the end to ally with Germany‚ dividing Europe
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GHANA ARMED FORCES IN UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS INTRODUCTION 1. One of the greatest challenges to the development of mankind has been conflicts. Wherever individuals or groups come together‚ there is bound to be different ideas‚ goals and aspirations. The inability to resolve these differences into an acceptable common goal often degenerate into different form of conflicts. At all levels of human existence‚ many conflicts have had devastating effects.
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