Daryl Dano explores tensions between religious and secular approaches to population growth, sexual health care, and women's rights in the Philippines, focusing particularly on the promotion of comdom use as a peace initiative in the country.
Climate debt anchors on the idea that wealthy nations should pay developing nations for problems arising from global warming. As an emerging discourse, Nicola Bullard defines it as the “debt accumulated by the Northern industrial countries towards the countries and peoples of the South on account of resource plundering, environmental
This paper reviews the current state of affairs of food security in Peru and discusses how Climate Change may be a threat in the short term, especially for rural farmers.
Frankin Murianki analyzes the legality of "Operation Babylon," an Israeli attack on Iraq´s Osiraq nuclear reactor in 1981. The article scrutinizes the attack by examining customary international law, the legal reasoning of involved parties and the position of the United Nations Security Council.
Key words = international law, self-defense, Israel attack
This paper addresses the indiscriminate and wanton exploitation of wildlife species and forest resources and explores the impact of these activities, including poverty and species extinction. The paper further gives a detailed analysis and different methods of how certain wildlife species can be bred so as to reduce human pressures
Election violence has remained a feature on Nigeria’s political landscape, and a review of the problem suggests a number of reasons. This article identifies poverty, a culture of impunity, weak penalties, a lack of effective governance, and small arms proliferation, amongst others. It also looks at the effects
For over three or four decades, there have been propagandists and antagonists for the construction of dams all over the world. Dams were presumed to evolve with the world as a product of its socio-economic development. History has shown us that dams’ construction is not a recent phenomenon but has
Pandora Hopkins offers a personal and insightful homage to George Hitchcock, the poet, editor, and North American cultural icon, who died last month at the age of 96. Hopkins' focus is on Hitchcock as a master of the absurd, an example to follow when faced with "the irritations of being
