Analysis Of The Geneva Convention On The Rights Of The Child By Carol Anderson

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Carol Anderson writes that white rage becomes institutionalized in all its forms through rules, regulations, and policies. She offers numerous examples of institutional attempts to prevent and slow down black advancement. These attempts included creating and finding loopholes in which African Americans were continually treated like slaves, having support from the Supreme Court in allowing segregationist views, and southern states curtailing the migration of their “inferiors” to Northern states. Following slavery’s “official” end, Southern states began searching for loopholes that would reinforce the notion that African Americans are to be treated like slaves. As Anderson states, a foundational aspect of this was the “attempt on the part of …show more content…

Much like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, most meetings have happened following the aftermath of World War II, and taken place in the United Nations. The first discussion took place in 1924 and was titled The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Unlike other texts that were facilitated and fabricated in the United Nations, this declaration was drafted in the League of Nations. The notable connection within this work is between the needs of all children and their right to development, being both material and spiritual. Most people may assume that a declaration of such manner is focused solely on immediate issues, but the Geneva Declaration proves that you can focus on both the present and the future, while having the best intentions for children at the forefront. What eventually followed both the Geneva Declaration and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child. This declaration was created in 1959 and had a focus on child development in both freedom and dignity, a difference from its predecessor, which focused on material and spiritual development. This 1959 agreement stated that children were entitled to adequate nutrition, medical care, housing assistance, education, and many other factors. Each factor was agreed upon as they each nurture a child’s development in the freedom …show more content…

The core tenet of this ideology is to shift ownership of the energy sector to the public, where a successful shift would mean a focus on profit would become second to a focus on public interest. If this were to be done, then many problems that currently exist could be curtailed. One such example includes the growing sea levels that island nations are forced to deal with. As the reading states, the IPCC conducted research and found that small island nations contribute to less than 1% of all emissions, yet they are one of the groups most directly impacted by climate change. Shifting towards a more energy democratic sector would allow those who directly face climate-related impacts to be heard and ultimately make a difference. If our planet continues on the path of private-based decisions, then small islands nations would become extinct and it begs the question; who’s