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We Remember

11/11/2015 19:16

I have the privilege of living in a nation where I can freely express myself. I have access to basic human rights and needs and fully exercise my right to vote, freedom of speech and political expression. I live in a peaceful nation void of bloodshed on the streets, where civil wars aren’t our...

Causes of Global Poverty

17/12/2014 17:38

Many cases can be made for the root cause of global poverty, among which are war, debt, trade imbalances, skewed distribution of resources, natural disasters, colonialism, imposed monopoly over strategic resources, and the infamous slave trade which started in the sixteenth century. In this...

What is Global Poverty?

15/12/2014 23:13

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Poverty refers to the state of lack or the state of being poor. Global poverty basically refers to the number of people around the world whose standards of living are so low they barely have enough to survive and as a result some of these people end up...

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

04/12/2014 23:59

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established by the UN in 2000 are eight objectives proposed by the UN, its member nations and other organizations as an initiative to reduce global poverty. These goals include; eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education,...

The Conflict in Darfur

27/11/2014 13:32

The Darfur conflict in Sudan presents one of the major human rights violations faced today. This conflict which started in 2003 is mainly between the Sudanese military group known as the Jinjaweed (a Sudanese militia) and rebel groups in Sudan namely: the Sudanese Liberation Army/Movement (SLA),...

Genocide

25/11/2014 23:46

What is Genocide? The Merriam Webster dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group”. The term was however coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 by combining the Greek word genos (race) with the Latin word for cide (killing).[1]...

Causes of Genocide

25/11/2014 00:02

There are a number of different causes of genocides, the most prominent being hatred of one group by another. All the genocides that have occurred have mainly been a result of one group resenting another to the extent of annihilation of that group. Hatred alone is not justifying enough for...

Genocide as defined by the United Nations

19/11/2014 12:35

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide The definition of genocide provided by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide doesn’t help bring things into perspective. It defines genocide as follows: “In the present Convention,...

The Rwanda Genocide

19/11/2014 12:26

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, and I thought I would post an op-ed article assessing one of the most catastrophic genocides in Africa. This genocide is a great example of large-scale perpetuation of human rights abuses, which could have been stopped in its initial...

Civil conflicts in Africa

14/08/2014 00:00

In 2011-2012 we witnessed some of the ugliest political conflicts in Africa: the post-electoral “war” in Cote d’Ivoire, the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, with the latter leading to the brutal murder of President Gaddafi. There is no doubt that both revolutions were inevitable, but all three...