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    and you might make a lot of new friends. Stand in the corner pouting, however, and you 're being anti-social. Humans are described as social being ones that tend to move or live in groups together, Social is relating to society or it is organization, needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities", relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other for pleasure. Cambridge dictionary defined social as relating to activities in which you meet

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    United Nations and non-governmental organizations within the German Federal Republic, provide a significant amount of influence on both political actors and the public as well. For example, The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime “Promote field-based technical cooperation projects to enhance the capacity of Member States to counteract illicit drugs” (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime 2005). Unlike Germany, the Netherlands possesses non-governmental organizations that promote policies

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    role of non-state actors in global governance are undermining the role of the state as the principal actor in global policymaking.” Globalization and the increasing role of non-state actors have shifted the position of states, the traditional “main players” in global governance. However, whether this change undermines states is debatable. In one sense, states’ roles have somewhat diminished: Non-governmental entities – namely transnational corporations (TNC), but also global non-governmental organizations

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    Lenovo, it started its function in a small area but not its expansion is spread all over the world is an example for TNCs. Here we should remember that the government can’t regulate its functions easily and it may decide its future. When these organizations develop and gains power, in turn it challenges the government’s policies by intimidating that they may shift or shutdown their operations. As a result, the government has less control over the trade and also on the cash flows within their own country

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    Human trafficking is an important problem in world politics that is not currently receiving the attention that it should. This is a terrible practice that involves the exploitation of workers, violation of human rights, and the encroachment onto the body when human trafficking turns sexual. Human trafficking is a huge issue that much is still unknown about. When we think of this practice we often think of the issue that only occurs overseas in poverty-stricken nations however this practice is very

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    Global Witness is a non-governmental organization working independently in Africa to end the political corruption and to bring change to those areas that are impacted the most by violence, human rights violations, and an exploited economy. Employees of Global Witness conduct extensive and very well organized investigations that most of the time places the team directly in the danger zones so they can experience what most victims do. There were several changes to government that resulted in corruption

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    International business on the other hand, comprises all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundaries. A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) refers to an organization which is neither part of any government nor a profit making organization. NGOs are mainly involved in the promotion of societal interests. Hence they have

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    Case Study: Oxfam

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    international union of 17 organizations operating in about 94 countries around the globe to discover solutions to poverty and what it considers unfairness worldwide. In all Oxfam's actions, the final aim is to allow people to use their rights and control their own lives. Oxfam works straight with communities and tries to persuade the powerful, to make sure that poor people can perk up their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that impact them. Each organization works jointly internationally

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    NGOs is far from perfect. In reality, the rights of many non-governmental organizations or their members had been violated at the time when they want to get adequate relief (Lang and Xu, 2013). Legal remedies of NGOs mainly include legal remedies of disputes between NGOs and the government, legal remedies of non-governmental organization and its members as well as legal disputes between NGOs and other general civil or commercial organizations. Relief for the above disputes are: legislative relief

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    Kenya where fragmented and under staffed facilities are the norm and a physician to patient ratio of 1.69 per 1000 inhabitants falls well below the World Health Organization standard (Green 2013: 1348). The gap left by the weakened and fragmented public sector health services has since been filled by numerous non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) (Pfeiffer 2003: 726). The presence of the private and NGO sectors and lack of funding have hindered the development of strong public systems (Simms et.

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