Human rights are rights, essential to all human beings. Our nationality, place of residence, sex, ethnic origin, color, religion, language or any other status is not…………….. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination which are all interrelated, indivisible and interdependent. Earlier people had some protections. But it they weren’t nearly as strong or wide-ranging as they are now. We signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights in 1953. That is an international
Introduction In the last century all of the Earth’s ecosystems have been significantly transformed through human actions causing a widespread degradation of ecosystem services, much of these changes are owed to the industrial revolution (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). It has only been a mere forty years since global society has moved into a ‘modern’ environmental era, where the idea of an ecological and socially sustainable relationship between man and the environment has developed (Richardson
The word “queer” can actually be used to refer several things that are not quite right or considered as against normal; however, these days, its use is often associated with homo sexual or lesbian. Nowdays, queer becomes a very hot issue to be discussed—due to the advent of many cases as well as the pros and cons related to the issue of same gender relationship. Sedgwick (as cited in Smith 1998) define Queer Theory as a study that is trying to comprehend different kinds of sexual desire and how
estimated 100 million street children worldwide (Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, 2011) with a further estimate of 600 street children in Mwanza alone, Tanzania’s second largest city (Lockhart, 2002). Some attempts have been made to monitor the increase in numbers. For example, estimation of numbers sky rocketed from 200 – 300 street children in 1991 in Dar es Salaam to 3,500 in 1995 (Bamurange, 1998). These can only be educational estimates as the exact number is difficult to determine
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prayut Chan-o-cha’s Speeches of Elections and Reforms Rachayanandhana Phraekhao 5406610039 1 Introduction Politics is a struggle of power in order to put certain political, economic and social ideas into practice. In this process, language plays a crucial role. Every political action is prepared, accompanied, influenced and played by language. This paper analyses the political discourse of General Prayut Chan-o-Cha, the Prime Minister of Thailand who gave the
Asian Development Bank initiated reforms in Pakistan in 1998 to compensate the economic crisis in the country. In Pakistan these reforms are instigated with the aim to get better the feedback mechanism and to make the public sector operations more accountable. Also, the purpose of these reforms in the public
style of business managers worldwide (Weaver and Agle, 2002; Christie et al., 2003).Some researchers have argued that irrespective of culture, western business ethics must be adopted to trade and survive in today’s global business environment (Biswas, 1998; Weaver and Agle, 2002; Kanagasabapathi, 2007). However, it has been shown that firms in emerging economies tend primarily to draw on indigenous cultural values and practices to develop corporate strategies, management practices, and business ethics
Can you fathom the fact that 780 million people in the world do not have access to safe water right now and that 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation? To put it another way, roughly 35 percent of the world’s population are affected by problems relating to water (WHO, 2008). But do these statistics imply that planet Earth has an insufficient store of water to sustain all living things? Factually, it is not. NASA estimates that the planet still has the same 326 quintillion gallons
decisions regarding collective life without being part of the governing or elite groups (Alford and Friedland, 1985). And according to Weberian (1864-1920) it is rights and duties definition, the control and supervision of public resource social distribution and access to conflict of interest resolution and regulation. it is a voluntary act between different players; such as governmental institutions, individuals, services officials, CBOs, NGOs, community organizations, private institutions. The word
Within the Igbo culture, there are some basic sacred and secular beliefs which provided meaning to causes of disease such as infertility. So, the causes of infertility are better understood within the context of the people concerned (Jegede, 1998). Similar view had earlier been posited by Geertz (1970), when he suggested that the people’s view helps to develop knowledge and attitude of the people towards life. As a result of this, there is an attempt here to synchronize the views of the traditional