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Responsibility to Protect
The Responsibility to Protect is a pledge by the United Nations’ member states to address the four primary areas that touch on fundamental human rights. In the 2005 UN World Summit, all members of the United Nations committed to preventing war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The Responsibility to Protect was formulated to address the weaknesses in the UN’s security response to crime against humanity. For instance, the council failed to intervene during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide that claimed the lives of more than eight hundred thousand people within a hundred days (Arlin, 2017, p. 15). The United Nation’s Security Council was reluctant to approve the deployment of reinforcement to overstretch and underequipped Ghanaian forces in the country to stop the genocide (Arlin, 2017, p. 15). Thus, Responsibility to Act was formulated to avoid the repeat of such incidences. However, it has failed to achieve its objective and just mere rhetoric in the international system.
By TermPapersite5 years ago in The Swamp
5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IN AMERICA
If there’s anything that’s more evident amongst my friend groups and acquaintances alike it’s that we are all eager, thirsty and ready to start building wealth in one way or another. We all have the knowledge, the education, the support systems, and resources to do so right? Well… while building wealth involves learning how compound interests and loans work there’s also another element and that is the racial wealth gap. A gap that’s only growing larger in size each year.
By Tarol Jackson5 years ago in The Swamp
Politics & Religion
I've seen a lot of disparaging remarks from both sides of the political platform, and it's really started to wear at my soul! I've seen remarks wishing the President would die of Covid-19, or that at least that he would get really sick, when the news came out that he contracted the virus. I saw posts in social media celebrating the fact that this man was sick, and people posting endless memes mocking the man! It bothered me a lot, but the more I thought about it, I realized I was being a hypocrite.
By Jerry Thomas5 years ago in The Swamp
The State of Marriage Equality
With about three weeks left until Election Day, it’s important that we vote for politicians who will fight for equal rights for all people, including the LGBTQ+ community. Since coming out as gay in February 2012, supporting the rights for all gay and lesbian people was something that I was passionate about. Three years later, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that marriage equality was the law of the land. It was a historic day and victory for everyone in the LGBTQ+ community.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 5 years ago in The Swamp
Compassionate Capitalism
In the United States, we already allow children to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to pursue a higher education, a college degree. Nobody argues with the idea that this is necessary in order to give them the opportunity to change their lives. And in recompense, these dollars they borrow will never leave their credit report. These dollars are thus spent on that individual, for that individual, in hopes of achieving something that may never come to fruition, and the debt follows them for the rest of their life regardless if they succeed or not. The average graduation rate in four year colleges is 33.3%. So two-thirds of Americans go into college, waste thousands and thousands of dollars they don’t have, and get sent back into the world, no better than they started, and the colleges pocket the money and keep churning out degrees that have less and less value in the real world.
By Garrett Beylerian5 years ago in The Swamp
Why White Culture Isn’t Real
People often confuse white culture with their heritage. White people as a whole don’t really have a culture themselves due to skin color. There’s no such thing as a skin color culture. The very idea that cultural practices belong to racial groups misunderstands both race and culture. Let me explain that in more detail.
By angie santoro5 years ago in The Swamp
Schism of the Isms
Devlin Bronte Rachele Bedford, Pennsylvania Saturday, October 10, 2020 Dear Evan, Voltaire gave advice of the importance of defining terms. So, let’s do that. Knowing everyone paid close attention to economics in school I thought it would be appropriate to start things off with a quick review.
By V. H. Eberle5 years ago in The Swamp
