ENGLISH ESSAYS
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Here's the prompt-
ESSAY 332 - DUE on May 19th by 9:00 a.m.
I would like you to go ahead and select a topic from the list below. Then you will formulate a more specific hypothesis. For example if you choose "fair trade" then I would like you to select a country or countries which have experienced legal contradictions and/or tensions based on their fair trade agreement. Your paper should be at least 8 pages long, 12 font, consistent citation style, 6 of more works cited in your bibliography - DUE on May 19th by 9:00 a.m.
IMPORTANT HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS
1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2008 UN Resolution on Human Rights and Climate Change
2008 Organization of American States Resolution on Human Rights and Climate Change in the Americas
BUSINESS
Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights BLIHR [United Nations] Child labor
Domestic workers—illegal immigrants; fair wages and treatment Effects of Globalization
Fair Trade
Corporate social responsibility in trans-national corporations
Human rights risk management in foreign investment—how a particular project might impact the traditional lifestyle of an aboriginal community
Environmental standards differ globally
Operating in zones of conflict
Socially responsible business practices: sustainability of resources
Sweatshops
Workers’ rights—migrant labor
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Exploitation of children
Child soldiers in Uganda
Child workers enslaved on chocolate farms in Ivory Coast Child workers in India
Human trafficking – prostitution
Right to free education
Right to adequate healthcare
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change inequitably impacts developing countries
Help is needed to adapt to climate change—technology, policy, etc.
Effect of sea level rise to small island nations, e.g. Maldives; Vanuatu
Enable the most vulnerable states and populations to become more resilient to climate change by mitigation and adaptation
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Challenges of terrorism: extraordinary rendition, torture and unlawful detention Crime victims
Death penalty / capital punishment
Human trafficking
Police powers and human rights Prisoners’ rights
Racial profiling
GENOCIDE / ETHNIC CLEANSING
Holocaust; Armenia; Cambodia; Rwanda; Kosovo; Darfur
GLOBAL WARMING
Carbon emissions trading—long-term effects on poorest countries—research needed
“Harm caused at a distance” —poorer countries need legal protections
Wealthy countries have responsibility to mitigate climate change and aid in adaptation abroad
GLOBALIZATION
Globalization vs. local ethnic identity Exploitation of local citizens Inequality in world politics
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Impact on human rights—does it lead to an unequal distribution of wealth?
HEALTH
Access to food, clean water and shelter: a matter of justice Access to adequate healthcare
Medical experimentation
Rights of the disabled and the mentally ill
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Geneva Convention Truth commissions Universal jurisdiction
SOC 332 final exam prompt-1.docx
SOC 332 final exam prompt
1) Since the Nuremberg Trials, it is estimated that close to 100 million people have died as a result of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. That number seems unusually high to the casual observer. However, consider a small country, like Cambodia, lost twenty percent of its population or close to 2 million Cambodians, to genocide. One can see how 100 million is readily achievable. The twentieth century has seen ethnic cleansing conducted by the Serbs on the Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, the Rwanda genocide of Tutsis and Hutus, the genocide of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire and the Cambodian genocide--to name just a few of its horrors.
Literally thousands of local, national, and international organizations have been formed to defend human and civil rights of people around the world. These "NGOs"--nongovernmental organizations--primarily rely on the power of the integrative system and persuasion to try to prevent human rights abuses, and to try to do what they can to mitigate their effects after they have occurred.
PLEASE CHOOSE ONE WAR CRIME (from 1900 to 2016) that took place in recent history where the use of NGOs were a vital source in mitigating the effects of human abuses. The second part of this question is - after conducting your research on your chosen case- do you believe that non-governmental agencies OR the government is more useful/effective in implementing policies which thwart war criminality and abuse? Is an international agency like the United Nations helpful or unhelpful in resisting state sponsored war crimes? Please use sources to back up your perspective - the new due time/date for this paper is May 19, 2016 by 9:00 a.m. - You may email me your final exam prompt directly.
