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What Are Human Rights and Why Do We Need Them?

What Are Human Rights and Why Do We Need Them?

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Joshua Castellino addresses why the world needs human rights. He questions how the order that is created by governmental and social systems pays attention to justice. He…
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What are the Key Issues Facing Minorities and…

What are the Key Issues Facing Minorities and Indigenous Peoples?

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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This chapter begins with a case study of the Nukak Indians in Colombia, who are on the brink of total extinction. The land rights questions lies at the very heart of the…
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A Vision of Rights for the Future

A Vision of Rights for the Future

From SDG Academy on 12 August, 2019

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In addressing the sustainable development agenda of the next thirty to fifty years, it is important to bear in mind six key concerns. The first is an emphasis on…
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The Co-option of Rights

The Co-option of Rights

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Individuals has been foregrounded within the neoliberal paradigm. The World Bank produces this paradigm through structural adjustment programs to increase economic…
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Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Intellectual property rights guarantee that the individual who spends time constructing something new in the context of human experience can continuously claim credit in…
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Democratization and Political Participation: The…

Democratization and Political Participation: The Situation Room

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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In this chapter, Elizabeth Prügl discusses an initiative that has proliferated in Africa called the Women’s Situation Room. It responds to election violence…
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Households as Sites of Inequality

Households as Sites of Inequality

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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The household is the unit we live in. It may include our family or may not. Over time, as industrialization has occurred, the definition of family has shifted to the…
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The Gendered Experience of Poverty

The Gendered Experience of Poverty

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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There is a gendered experience of poverty: women and men experience poverty differently, and women may experience poverty differently from one another. In the case of…
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Global Snapshots of Social Exclusion by Continent

Global Snapshots of Social Exclusion by Continent

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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This chapter addresses the experiences of indigenous peoples beyond the European and North American experiences, such as the San in Botswana whose lands have been taken…
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Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

From SDG Academy on 12 August, 2019

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Poverty has been an important part of the development agenda since the 1990s, but the way that we measure poverty has changed drastically over the years. Inequality is…
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Culture vs. Rights: The Case of Female Genital…

Culture vs. Rights: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is considered a violence against women, and it seeks to subjugate women by taking away sexual urges and controlling them by removing…
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Equalizing the Encounter-Free Prior Informed…

Equalizing the Encounter-Free Prior Informed Consent

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Free prior and informed consent (FPIC) is a self-determination-based Collective Right of Indigenous peoples to give or withhold their consent to activities or measures…
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From Economic Growth to People-Centered…

From Economic Growth to People-Centered Development

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Sarah Bradshaw discusses different theories of economic growth, beginning with Modernization Theory, and their social implications in fatalism, work ethic, dress, and…
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Who Are Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

Who Are Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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The distinctions between the concepts of minorities, indigenous peoples, and peoples are important because they are accompanied by a different range of entitlements.…
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Pathways to Sustainable Development and Human…

Pathways to Sustainable Development and Human Rights

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Our failure to pay attention to excluded groups often compromises the extent to which human rights can be upheld and extended in the sustainable development process. We…
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The Rights of Indigenous Populations

The Rights of Indigenous Populations

From SDG Academy on 8 October, 2019

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