Non-governmental organization

To start off, the very broad term of equality is the notion that every human being in the world is treated the same, no matter their age, gender, class, or race. Comparing to other political systems, democracy values equality more than any other as it involves the commitment in upholding equal treatments between citizens. To measure the level of democracy in a territory in terms of associational autonomy, one must observe the level of equality that is promoted in that country. Looking at any state

Qatar and other states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) repeatedly face international critique regarding their treatment of migrant workers in construction and household services. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations (IOs) are reporting abusive and unsafe working and living conditions while simultaneously trying to influence and mediate between Gulf Council Cooperation (GCC) governments, migrant workers, and civil society. GCC governments are attempting to implement

The Bridgespan Group, a non-profit consultancy, conducted a study on the potential of global NGOs.The study found that since 1990 NGOs registered with USAID (United States Agency for International Development) had doubled to 579, and average annual funding has tripled to $50 million and in few cases the annual funding exceeds $1 billion (Queenan et al. 2). Increasingly, NGOs, or Non-Governmental Organizations, dominate healthcare aid and interventions. Their overwhelming presence comes with equally

a very real fight for gender equality that we are currently engaged in, and a participant in that fight that holds a fundamental role are non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs exist as private, voluntary organizations that function without government restriction and bias because they are not for profit and not funded by the government. These organizations coordinate strategies in order to “perform a variety of services and humanitarian functions, bring citizen concerns to governments, advocate

Whilst numerous reports suggest a decline in sex trafficking of women and children in Cambodia, Cambodia still remains one of the largest destinations of sex tourism. Many methods have been implemented on both a national and community level in order to combat this criminal activity across the country; however none have been sufficient enough to entirely eradicate sex trafficking of persons in Cambodia. Thus a number of recommendations to combat these human rights violations have been listed, as follows:

Problems of Global Development Critical Reflection Paper A core of neoliberal policy has been promoting non-state actors, such as multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and international development platforms. In the development sphere, state actors in the majority world have faced significant criticism from Western media. As a result, many international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have become powerful in acting as the bridge between Western donors and the majority world

This act of the bank has been criticised as ‘back door funding’ which will be examined in light of the goals of the bank below. 2.2. The World Bank The World Bank is composed of five organizations run by member countries. It provides ‘technical and financial assistance’ to developing countries. In connection with this, the bank has the objectives of eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ by 2030. However, it has been pointed out that, the bank’s

A non-governmental organization is a non-profit, citizen-based group that functions independently of government. NGOs, sometimes called civil societies, are organized on community, national and international levels to serve specific social or political purposes, and are cooperative, rather than commercial, in nature. (3) Today there are multiple NGOs registered around the world, heavily in developing countries. NOGs no matter where they exist they seem to have a nullifying role in the politics of

experience of the United States. The study was informed by the key assumption that the US cannot fight human trafficking human trafficking in isolation of the rest of the world, and that there is a need to for governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to work together towards addressing the vice. Many international legal instruments have been out in place to address the vice but factors such as profitability, incapacity of many states to police the vice and worldwide

Through International Relations theory lenses, especially the Feminist lens, the issue of human trafficking is easily identified as an international crisis. Not only is this a human rights and security issue, but a gendered one at that. Approximately 80% of the exploitation that comes from human trafficking is in a sexual nature, and a majority of trafficking victims are female (“11 Facts about Human Trafficking”). There is a clear stance from the feminist theory perspective that it is the states’