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    Committee Name: 6th legal Committee Topic: Capital Punishment Country Name: Nigeria BRIEF BACKGROUND OF THE TOPIC Capital Punishment is the sanctioned practice that puts someone to death in response to crimes. There are many and varied types of execution used around the world today, including: beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection, shooting in the back of the head, and by firing squad. People have been working to end executions since 1977, when only 16 countries had abolished the death

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    attention to the likelihood of an armed conflict in the region. The purpose of this essay is to identify how international law aids conflict resolution in respect to the disputed territory in South and East Asia Seas. Focussing mainly on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOS Convention) , the essay will then examine the key dispute resolution mechanisms provided in the Convention and highlight its effect to resolving the disputes. Setting the context The South China Sea is one of

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    either incapable or unwilling to protect its own people, or is actively persecuting them” (Rashid, 2012). Liberalism is the best theory to support my answer because liberalism promotes peace and stability globally. Based off of these goals, the United Nations was founded after World War II. During the 1990’s, also known as the decade

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    Sierra Leone Essay

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    human rights violations and corruption in Africa. The international community has failed to act because they are not enabled with financial resources or the power to force sovereign nations to act in accordance with basic and universal civil rights. As a result, African citizens are suffering from the actions of the nations around the world and then are abandoned to help themselves. In East Africa, widespread drought and famine were preventable but ignored and starvation is wide spread in the region

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    Resolution 2098 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 28th March 2013 regarding the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The UN recognized the lack of progress in DRC and adopted the resolution creating the Intervention Brigade unanimously. These difficulties had already been highlighted previously and it was recommended to address the violence issue in a more robust way, notably after the humanitarian failures of the 1990s (genocide in Rwanda, in Srebrenica, massacres

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    Child Soldiering Report

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    Rights of the Children in 1989, the United Nations provided the first official and international treaty that gave economic, political, cultural, civil and social rights to children. The treaty has been ratified by 190 nations. The Convention imposes on states the obligation to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of 15 years do not take a direct part of the hostilities (United Nations Humans Rights Office of the High Commissioner). The United Nations has been concerned with this problem

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    ideas on what has happened in Mali with terrorism. Following with what leads to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the effort of terrorism in Mali. To follow up with why the realist critique fits the terrorism in mali. Ending with the proof if the UNSC response and current issues and if the UN is still there to this day. Wrapping it all up with a final conclusion of my research and thoughts. In nations there is always confrontation on differences of life. The most radical and severity

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    Case Study: Rohingya Refugees Rohingya is Muslim minority communities that located in the North of Western Arakan, Burma. They are referred to as neither people that is nor a country and not recognized full citizenship by Myanmar government. They are different with other ethnic groups, whether nationality was recognized by Myanmar government. Rohingya ethnic is regarded as temporary residents and are not getting rights of full citizenship. Rohingya ethnic also experienced religious persecution that

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    that point. It left such a bad taste for war that most nations in the world were willing to go to great lengths to avoid another conflict like this one. President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points called for a “general association of nations…formed on the basis of covenants designed to create mutual guarantees of the political independence and territorial integrity of States, large and small equally.” With that Idea in mind the League of Nations was formed in

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    independence by Kosovo's February 17, 2008 has caused mixed reactions in the international community. To date, Kosovo's independence from Serbia was recognized by 110 states out of 193 (56.9%), the United Nations Member States (the United Nations). At the same time, other states - members of the United Nations (more than 1/3), including two permanent UN Security Council members (China and Russia), refused to recognize the independence of Kosovo or declared neutrality. In order to take a seat at the UN

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