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United Nations Hight Commissioner for Refugees

consider how the organisation may learn form its experience the first stage is to consider the role and development of the United ...

Legal Refugee Status

people who were refugees and/or who were seeking asylum to leave an environment of persecution. On the other hand, refugees are ma...

Overview of Operation Provide Comfort of 1991 to 1996

In eight pages this paper discusses the refugee relief provided by the United Nation's Operation Provide Comfort from April of 199...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

UN Speech of Mikhail Gorbachev

In five pages Soviet President Gorbachev's 1988 speech delivered to the United Nations is analyzed....

The United Nations: Overview

easing poverty and supporting economic development; agricultural development and fisheries; education; family planning; emergency ...

The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

Sudan's Refugee Situation and the UN

significance of human dignity, there must be a strong sense of connection. People are known to follow blindly, no matter if what ...

Canada and Refugee Experiences

immigration rules in order to attract additional workers to contribute to the on-going economic boom in Canada for much of the 199...

U.N. and the League of Nations

In six pages this paper compares the United Nations' success with the League of Nation's failure. Four sources are cited in the b...

Refugees in Australia

Convention of 1951, dealing specifically with refugees and rules for asylum. Those who flee their country of origin to escape pol...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

Sustainable Development; The Influence of the United Nations

been a change in attitude as a greater appreciation of the way different elements of the environment are interdependent so the har...

International Relations and Sovereignty

In seven pages this essay examines global level sovereignty with the emphasis upon the United Nations' relationship with the Mid...

League of Nations, the United Nations, and the United States

In five pages this paper discusses whether or not the US presence in the United Nations has hampered its diplomatic mission in the...

Legal Issues in Commercial Use of Outer Space

The industry is not limited only to the owners of satellite hardware. There are four sectors of the industry that generally are r...

3 Questions on Possible Contract Breaches in International Shipping

In seven pages this paper examines 3 contracts between a purchaser from the United States and a United Kingdom supplier with issue...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...

Laura C. Hammond's This Place Will Become Home

set about "transforming an unknown and anonymous space first into a personalized space and finally into a home" (Hammond 3). Acco...

Lutheran Refugee Services

n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement o...

The Ongoing Problem of Refugees in Iraq

likely to lead to a negative spiral, with current fragmentation and sectarian violence increasing the divisions within society, wh...

The Non-Welcoming Canadian Nation

countries have to offer. This fear is one of the factors in the way immigration and national security are linked. Its fair to sa...

Argumentative Essay Opposing the Iraq War

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

Advancement of Women's Rights

Committees recommendations, particularly in regards to its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and promote sex education ("Combined...Burund...

Homeland Security: Adequate Facility Security?

within the United States, reduce Americas vulnerability to terrorism and minimize the damage and recover from any terrorist attack...

Country Comparison: Spain And The United States

spoken in the United States. At a size approximately double that of the state of Oregon, Spains population currently stands as ju...

Answering Questions on International Political Economy Issues

war as being "characterized less by its immediate causes...than by the extent and the stakes involved," so that the "inevitable co...

Fisheries and Global Environmental Resource Law

rebuild to historical population levels (The Economist, 1998). Our oceans are fascinating testaments to the complexity and ...

Dennis Jett's Why Peacekeeping Fails

the foreign service, originally wrote the book as a dissertation for his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of W...

September 12, 2002 Remarks Made by President George W. Bush to the U.N.

been and have been suffering for centuries such as disease and poverty, and also address the fact that major outside sanctions are...