Essays about: "MDGS"

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  1. 11. Protection of Individual Minority Rights in the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Annastiina Ali-Lekkala; [2015]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Minority Rights; MDGs; SDGs; Human Rights-Based Approach to Development; HRBAD; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Minorities falling under the Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil, Cultural and Political rights, that is, individuals belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities possess characteristics that form part of their identity and differ from the characteristics possessed by the majority population of the state. Because of these particularities, minorities can be often considered to be directly or indirectly discriminated against and to stand in unequal position in relation to majority groups in what comes to a distribution of benefits in the society. READ MORE

  2. 12. How to Awaken “Dormant” Pro-Development Provisions of the TRIPS Agreement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Irine Urushadze; [2015]
    Keywords : Intellectual Property; Sustainable Development; TRIPS; SDGs; MDGs; Georgia; Flexibilities; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : It is commonly understood that Intellectual Property Regimes are aimed at protecting private rights and in doing so sometimes neglect public interests. Historically IP systems were considered to allow authors or creators to secure certain monopolies on rights, hence in the 1970s and 1980s the concern over public needs came forward requiring the IP system to respond to it in a way that would stimulate the technological independence of states and therefore development. READ MORE

  3. 13. Female Enrollment in Logar Teacher Training Colleges of Afghanistan. : Obstacles and opportunities for female enrolment.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Ahmadzai Mohammad Dawood; [2015]
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    Abstract : In Afghanistan, more than three decades of war eroded access to education for Afghan children all over the country. After the fall of Taliban regime in late 2001, Ministry of Education (MoE) and international community has taken significant steps toward extending access to equal educational opportunities for all school-aged children, as well as committed to achieve Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to reach to gender equality and to eliminate gender discrimination in education, but still gender disparity remains a controversial issue in education in rural, as well as in urban areas. READ MORE

  4. 14. Whose and what justice? : A content analysis of the United Nations' Post-2015 Development Agenda

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Pontus Wallin; [2015]
    Keywords : Post-2015; MDGs; social justice; distributive; retributive; transformative; justice;

    Abstract : As the timeframe of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is running out this year, the Post-2015 Development Agenda soon arrive at its final negotiations. Criticisms of the MDGs have primarily concerned the inaccurate implementation of social justice to the most vulnerable and poor, and the limited understanding of the underlying interconnectedness of the goals. READ MORE

  5. 15. Brazil Bolsa Familia Program: Analysing The Impact of The Conditionalities on School Enrolment, Health and Child Labor

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Chiedozie Franklin Otuonye; [2015]
    Keywords : Human capital; Inequality; Bolsa Familia Program; Poverty; Education; Children; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract With high poverty and inequality rate, the Government in Brazil have adopted several social assistance programs and strategies in the fight against the ever growing rate of poverty and inequality within it’s population since the 1990s. In recent years, the Bolsa Familia Program have been a major social assistance program in Brazil, and the program have affected more than 13 million poor households in their everyday life. READ MORE