The Convention on the Rights of the Child, established a legal and ethical instrument for promoting and protecting the rights of children. The International Community responded enthusiastically to the Convention, and that type of broad participatin Continue Reading...
Rwanda and Child Soldering
There are approximately 300,000 child soldier in the world today and 120,000 of these are present in Africa, Rwanda in one of the places in Africa with a very high ratio of child soldiers. These children are abducted and t Continue Reading...
Muslim Slaves Used as Soldiers
Slavery is based on dominance and submission of one over another for labor and services. It dates back beyond recorded history. Reference to slavery can be found in the ancient Babylonian code of Hammurabi. Slavery was Continue Reading...
Burundi
The Republic of Burundi is a small country in central equitorial Africa facing many challenges including a growing population of individuals with AIDS and an ongoing problem with tribal warfare. With an inflation rate of over 12% and the con Continue Reading...
Conflict in DRC (Case Study)
Conflict in DRC
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Background of DRC Conflict
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), otherwise also known as Republique Democratique du Congo from their French masters and fo Continue Reading...
The observer group functioning was assumed during the post war periods of 1956, 1967 and 1973. It saw the institution of the first armed UN force to generate a stock between Israeli and Egyptian forces in the Sinai. Ten nations shared soldiers. Anot Continue Reading...
In 1959, Mutara III died and was succeeded by Kigeri V. The Hutus contended that the new mwami had not been properly chosen, and fighting broke out between the Hutus and the Tutsis (who were aided by the Twa). The Hutus emerged victorious, and some Continue Reading...
" (Gellately; Kieman, 2003, p. 325) This was the real thing: more than a half-million Tutsi murdered- three-quarters of the population -- and the attempt by the Rwandan state and the Hutu majority to exterminate every last Tutsi." (Gellately; Kieman, Continue Reading...
United Nations: Failures
The United Nations is the result of an international policy experiment that aimed at bringing together the countries of the world in an attempt to avoid conflagrations such as the First and Second World wars from taking plac Continue Reading...
HUTU Blame?
The Search for the Truth in Rwanda, an argumentative essay
There are those who claim that Belgium is the perpetrator in the extermination methods used in Rwanda however, there are those who claim that the Rwandan government itself may Continue Reading...
Critics believe that this social pattern can change only when a total social transformation occurs in resolving the "us-vs.-them" conflict (Vorster 2002). A form of government must be established, which will respect diversity and foster unity as we Continue Reading...