Brazil will be the first South American country to host the Olympics for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Although Brazil has an emerging economy, the 2016 Olympics may do more harm than good as it relates to the economy and those living in poverty. The theory is that hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics will cause a growth […]
The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Act is a bill currently in the Foreign Relations Senate committee. Sponsored by Senator Benjamin Cardin (D), the bill’s intent is to “impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes.” Having been introduced in January of 2014, and […]
The United Nations recently accredited the nonprofit, Freedom Now, as an official Non-Governmental Organization, when only one month before, its application had been denied. Freedom Now is an American nonprofit organization that works to help free those who have been imprisoned as a result of discrimination based on sex, race, gender and other criteria. This […]
The following businesses were created by young entrepreneurs in Nigeria: House of Dabira In 2011, at the age of 18, Inioluwa Ajayi founded the House of Dabira. Based in Ibadan, the House of Dabira designs high-quality, custom-made clothing. Since the company’s beginning, Ajayi has been in multiple fashion shows. She has also won various awards, including […]
Ecuador is home to over 14 million people and an estimated 18 percent are involved in the banana trade or business. Banana sales comprise over 60 percent of the country’s GDP and Ecuador supplies almost 40 percent of the world’s bananas. These numbers help explain and prove the prevalence of non-fair trade companies. According to […]
Climate change, once considered an extremely controversial subject that provoked bipartisan deadlock within American politics, is now widely accepted as an unfortunate reality by many of the world’s most developed countries. Last week, for instance, President Obama introduced his “Clean Power Plan,” a government initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America’s coal-burning power […]
The World Food Programme is waging war on hunger and fighting an uphill battle in six of the world’s hunger hot spots; Syria, Iraq, Yemen, South Sudan, Nepal and the Ebola-affected regions in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Most of the world’s population lives in developing countries. Many of them are mired in extreme poverty, […]
Here are five ways foreign aid impacts politics: It fights terrorism – With ISIS as a major concern and a possible threat to U.S. national security, it is important to come up with different solutions. While aid alone cannot defeat ISIS, it can certainly help. Terrorist organizations have an easier time growing and residing in […]
The ongoing Ebola epidemic in Western Africa has shown the dangers of late, or improper, diagnosis of disease. A late diagnosis can lead to a patient further spreading a pathogen and the wrong treatment usually does more harm than good. In developing countries and rural parts of the world, medical care is grossly underdeveloped, and […]
In the August/September 2015 issue of AARP The Magazine, Viola Davis of ABC’s hit series, “How to Get Away with Murder,” talks about growing up in poverty and why giving back is important to her. Now the star of a drama that has 9 million viewers on the edge of their seats, Davis said she […]
