Obviously I Need to Work on This
March 31, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Humor
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Archive for March 31, 2008
Why Hillary Should Be President – Human Trafficking and Global Criminal Networks
March 31, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Globalization, Human Rights, Human trafficking, Organized Crime, social marginality, Sociology
On September, 23, 2003, Senator Hillary Clinton was interviewed for the great PBS program Wide Angle on the topic of human trafficking (2003, folks, that was 5 years ago, ok… and yes, that was the year of the beginning of the war in Iraq but that was not the only thing going on in the [...]
Posted in Development, Economy, Globalization, Human Rights, Migration, New Wars, Organized Crime, Poverty, Slavery, social marginality, Sociology, Trafficking | No Comments »
The Tragedy of Congo’s Displaced People
March 31, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Congo, Human Rights, Poverty, social marginality, UN, war
What is currently going on in the Congo is a massive humanitarian tragedy that photographer Susan Schulman, on assignment for the UN Refugee Agency and UN World Food Program, has managed to capture in stunning photos that are the subject of an exhibit. Some of them are reproduced in the Guardian (here and here). The [...]
Posted in Human Rights, New Wars, Poverty, social marginality, United Nations | No Comments »
IMF to Redistribute Votes
March 31, 2008 by SocProf and tagged economics, Global Governance, Globalization, IMF
It has been in the works for a long time and it is long overdue, via the BBC, “The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed plans to redistribute voting power in the organisation. It has recommended changes which would base the power of each of the IMF’s 185 member countries on the size of their [...]
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