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    Human Trafficking

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    Human Trafficking No nation is immune from the curse of human trafficking. The most powerful nation to the simplest of nations are not immune from modern day slavery. Some nations do not even know the true definition of what human trafficking is. The main contributors to human trafficking are governmental corruption‚ economic and social crisis within each nation’s borders. Now most nations are coming together to learn more about the slavery and how to battle it internally and abroad. What is

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    Blood Diamonds in Africa

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    According to the United Nations‚ “On 1 December 2000‚ the United Nations General Assembly adopted‚ unanimously‚ a resolution

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    Cultural Globalization

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    in developing nations whether it was negative or positive. The word Globalization is defined as “ a complex economic‚ political‚ cultural‚ and geographic process in which mobility of capital‚ organization‚ ideas‚ discourse and peoples has taken a global or transnational form”[1]. The establishment of international free trade policies‚ such as North American Free Trade and GATT‚ transnational corporations are using the profit motive to guide their companies towards developing nations in search of inexpensive

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    ETHNIC CONFLICT DBQ

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    foundations and laws such as the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights have been founded. Despite the creation of the United Nations and the issuance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ conflict has continued in the post-World War II era. The attempts at keeping peace have and have not been effective since conflicts around the world keep reoccurring Although the severity of ethnic conflict has been improved by the making of the United Nations and Universal Declaration of Human

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    The Hague Convention

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    Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention 1954 The Hague‚ 14 May 1954 - First Protocol‚ The Hague‚ 14 May 1954 - Second Protocol‚ The Hague‚ 26 March 1999 | | The High Contracting Parties‚  Recognizing that cultural property has suffered grave damage during recent armed conflicts and that‚ by reason of the developments in the technique of warfare‚ it is in increasing danger of destruction; 

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    the affected populations with the necessities regardless of the generous intent‚ requiring the United Nations humanitarian relief agencies to restrict the types of humanitarian goods that are accepted and establish a process that certifies and regulate the type of aid that is accepted.

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    insecticide‚ when he realized it killed bug and insects (Davis‚ 1971). DDT was used to kill insects causing diseases such as body lice‚ malaria‚ and typhoid fever. The use of the insecticide dropped the cases of malaria in the United States‚ South Africa and other countries. By 1951‚ The United Stated considered malaria eradicated because of the use of DDT. In most countries malaria was under control and wiped out. Opponent of DDT In 1962 Rachel Carson‚ an aquatic biologist brought awareness to the

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    Banning Nuclear Weapons

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    Andrew Timco Composition 2 Mrs. Ferguson 4/15/2011 Banning Nuclear Weapons Testing Do you know how much money our nation spends on weapons? We have more than enough and aren’t allowed to use one in war without the complications of Nuclear Winter. Our country should reduce the amount of funding on nuclear weapons. However‚ in the one situation where we may need to incinerate a chemical war zone‚ a nuclear weapon is necessary. Nuclear weapons testing should be done on a much smaller scale

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    role in the global community being a part of many organizations designed to make the world a better place‚ and uphold the rights of humanity. Australia has been an integral part of the formation of the UN‚ and is one its most active members. The United Nations is an international organization with over 190 member states‚ its goal to avoid the recurrence of violent conflicts; to affirm fundamental human rights; to guarantee respect for international law and to improve living standards around the world

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    themselves to kill hundreds of thousands of people based solely on their ethnicity? It seems that if these countries are not going to benefit in some way‚ then they have no desire to help or intervene when there is a crisis in another country. The United Nations‚ which is said to be an international institution that values human rights‚ should make sure that tragedies‚ such as the Rwandan genocide‚ do not occur. Countries cannot act selfish when it comes to war‚ genocide‚ and the lives of innocent people

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