Developing World And Secondly Canada 's Responsibility Of Humanitarian Assistance

Imagine for a moment what it would be like if the entire population of Sonoma County, California was killed, and twenty years later not many people knew a great deal about it. When over 500,000 people, primarily Tutsis, were killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, it was a great tragedy. However, no one rushed to the country’s aid. Now it is vital that the horrors of the instance that violated the human rights of so many, is not forgotten. Human rights are the universal actions and objects that all people are entitled to because they are human. Human rights have been violated in numerous ways over time, typically as a result of a person in power having their own best interests in mind rather than the peoples´. Various groups, such as Amnesty

There are many charities to help towards human rights that Canada contributes to greatly. Including UNICEF Canada, Salvation Army Canada and Red Cross. These charities focus on mainly living rights. The charities contribute mainly food, clothing and medicine. Those are only two given rights. Although it is help for people to live their lives, it does not give them more rights, it is not a solution to increase their human rights and protect them.

The United Nations do multiple things such as following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN does this by working to prevent conflict; helping parties in conflict make peace; peacekeeping; and creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish. These activities often overlap and should reinforce one another, to be effective. The term “human rights” was mentioned seven times in the UN's founding Charter, making the promotion and protection of human rights a key purpose and guiding principle of the Organization. In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights brought human rights into the realm of international law. Since then, the Organization has diligently protected human rights through legal instruments and on-the-ground activities. The united nations are a great group of people who are looking out for us ever since Canada has joined this group they have been able to make an impact such as. Today, Canada continues to uphold the UN by actively participating in the organization's activities and providing financial support. Canada consistently brings pragmatic ideas and solutions to the table, from peacekeeping proposals in the 1950s, to creating the International Criminal Court and banning landmines in the 1990s. Today, some of their current goals are to assist war-affected children, or to improve the UN’s management and

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“Humanity will not enjoy security without development, it will not enjoy development without security and it will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.” - UN World Summit, Outcome Document 2005. There have been many conflicts in the world that have affected

Humanitarian action is what the world turns to in case there is a crisis in any part of the world. But as David Rieff suggests in his book, “A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis,” there is a crisis in the humanitarian world and space. He draws from first personal experience in places like Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo to tell how some of the challenges humanitarian organizations face; including their struggle to be neutral and apolitical.

Humanitarian interference positions a hard trial for an international society constructed on the doctrines of sovereignty, intervention, and the use of force. Directly after the holocaust, the society of states recognized the laws prohibiting genocide, forbidding the exploitation of civilians, and identifying plain human rights. These humanitarian values often clash with doctrines of sovereignty. Sovereign states are required to perform as protectors of their citizens’ security, but what happens if states act as villains towards their own people, treating power as a pass to kill? Should dictatorial states be recognized as valid members of international society and permitted the protection afforded by the intervention norm? Or else, most states loss their sovereign rights and be exposed to reasonable intervention if they aggressively abuse or fail to protect their citizens? Connected to this, what responsibilities do other states or organizations have to enforce human rights standards against governments that vastly violate them?

This paper has been brought forward against American scholar Katrina Wyman that large emitters should take responsibility for providing immigration rights to all climate change displaced person. Wyman depicts climate change displaced persons identical to other vulnerable people that insist her to say that there may be a moral obligation to assist financially and technologically to all vulnerable people to relocate them in their home countries, but there is no obligation on emitter countries to treat all climate change displaced persons except the small island’s inhabitants as a distinct category for immigration rights. A small island nation whose existence is severely threatened by climate change can be considered for immigration right. At first glance, this stance of Wyman seems to be opposite to her claims that it is yet not proven developed countries are solely responsible for climate change. Hence, it is quite reasonable to ask what her grounds for saying so. The only reason she gives is that belong to a state is a fundamental right for any human being, hence statelessness should be prevented. In this article we challenge her conclusion by showing that even if relocation within the country benefits persons, it is nevertheless wrongfully exploitative. In addition, displaced persons choice to accept the conditions of their relocation, both as an exercise of their autonomy and as an expression of their preferences, are not always morally significant. Rather we propose a

As a superpower, Canada has done a great job helping Rwanda recover after the genocide by providing them with aid, military personnel, and protection to the refugees. Firstly, Canada provided humanitarian aid for about two years after the genocide and have contributed efforts to help re-establish Rwanda’s social institutions and rural infrastructure which helped improve agriculture productivity. Secondly, Canada has helped with the refugee crisis going on at the time by setting up refugee camps and allowing 40,000 refugees who were trying to escape, enter Canada. Furthermore, Canada had deployed more than 200 medical, engineer and support staff to help with the recovery process and to treat the injured people. Lastly, Canada had sent about 60 military personnel to help out during the crisis and to prevent the rebels from killing the innocent people. In conclusion, by providing aid, military support and

Throughout the history of mankind the human race has faced the devastation of famines. Canada recognizes the need for the international community to stop famines from becoming a recurring theme. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Reference Table (the standard used by the UN), famine occurs when three of the following conditions occur: 20 percent of the population has fewer than 2,100 kilocalories of food a day, 30 percent of children are acutely malnourished, two deaths per 10,000 people, or four deaths per 10,000 children per day, pandemic illness, access to less than four liters of water per day, large-scale displacement, civil

The world appears to be moving towards entropy. The random tragedies of war increase daily, and millions of people are murdered or displaced every year. Every day, news headlines scream out the latest casualties of war in countries halfway across the globe. These victims are nameless and faceless, and their deaths do not directly affect most Canadians, other than to incite a brief moment of sadness. However, as members of a global human community, the ubiquity of suffering and death across the globe should spark outrage, and something must be done. The responsibility to protect (R2P) is an international norm that was accepted by the United Nations in 2005 which defines the responsibility of a sovereign state to protect vulnerable populations,

Articles 1, 55, and 56 are the center pieces for promoting and protecting human rights. During the cold war humanitarian intervention went stagnant because the two superpowers who were facing off (US & Russia) were at odds about ideology and this caused world peace to be thrown into turmoil. The UN was very new and did not have the international legal clout to stop either superpower from promoting its system of governance through invasion or indirect military support. The Cold War caused social, economic, and political upheaval globally which allowed for the UN to revise its interpretation of humanitarian intervention. This allowed for a larger consensus among nations about which circumstances required intervention. From 1945 to 1976 five major human rights documents were adopted; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Genocide Convention, Geneva Convention, Laws of War, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Cultural Economic Civil Rights. The end of the Cold War “liberated the UN which had established 20 new peace keeping missions from 1988-1993, more than it had taken in its entire 40 year history.” (Taha, 14) The major developments of the 1990‘s for international humanitarian

Globalization didn’t contribute to the Darfur crisis as it could have. For a long time now, there has been an emphasis on global inequality, on genocides and on internal struggles in a country as a consequence of globalization. In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that ‘‘all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’’. (United Nations, 1789) This declaration clearly states that all human have rights and freedom. This was advancement and progression due to globalization. Worlds where all people are born equal and are free. This global awareness of human rights violation can be explained by the situation in Darfur.

“ a secondary place among policy priorities” (Barratt, 2008, 121). It was only under Axworthy that the Canadian “gave an added boost to the status of human rights” (Barratt, 2008, 122). The use of aid to promote human rights is aligned with Canada’s mission to promote “human security goals” (Barratt, 2008, 130). In most cases, “certainly human rights have played a role in punitive aid measures against specific aid recipients” (Barratt, 2008, 132). As in all areas of foreign aid, Canada has made “attempts to steer a middle course between many competing policy imperatives” (Barratt, 2008, 160).

Much recent discourse surrounding humanitarian intervention has focused on the responsibility to protect (R2P). Prevention is a key component for good international relations and few would say it is not important, but as evidence to date would show prevention is very ineffective, the legality of military intervention still needs to be debated, as to date there is no consensus. For any intervention to be legitimate, whether unilateral or multilateral, it must comply with international law. So as not to cause any confusion, any situation in which an “intervention” is done with the permission or by request of the state being intervened, should be considered humanitarian assistance as state sovereignty is not breached. This paper will