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Protecting the Well-being of the People with Disabilities in Achieving the Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
As the nation is leaning towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), it is pertinent and crucial to look into the plights faced by people with disabilities in this country. This study delves straight into the current socio-legal climate surrounding them. It adopts methods of content and critical analysis when analysing the data qualitatively. The findings show that even though the overall social acceptance and reception have improved over the years, some members of the people with disabilities community have faced unfair treatment during job scouting, job interviews or while at work. From a legal point of view, an ambiguity in a provision under the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 has resulted in inaccuracy and false interpretation by the local authorities, leading to poor and shoddy construction of public amenities for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 in ensuring accessibility of public facilities for the people with disabilities remains questionable. In the concerted effort to achieve Goal No. 9 of developing quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure supporting economic development and human well-being and Goal No. 10 of reducing income inequality under the nation’s SDG, the above-mentioned socio-legal problems must be urgently addressed.
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Soutenir le progrès humain avec le PNUD
Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre les missions et le rôle du Programme des Nations unies pour le Développement 2015 est une année carrefour pour le PNUD: il est en effet temps de dresser le bilan des résultats des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement établis en 2000. Après des décennies de coopération et des milliards de dollars injectés, comment donc interpréter les avancées du progrès humain à l'échelle mondiale? Quels sont encore les pays en développement qui nécessitent l'expertise du dynamique organisme mondial? Quels partenariats Nord-Sud ou Sud-Sud privilégier pour parvenir à sortir les populations de l'extrême pauvreté? Ce livre vous aidera à:
Comprendre les enjeux des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développementPercevoir plus précisément les apports de l'organismeApprofondir vos connaissances sur les pays en développementEt bien plus encore! Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Avec l'auteur, Ariane de Saeger, nous avons cherché à dresser le bilan des avancées du progrès humain à l'échelle mondiale via la présentation de l'organisation du PNUD, une initiative des Nations unies qui opère depuis 1965. »
Juliette Nève À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Culture économique
La série « Culture économique » de la collection 50MINUTES propose des documents qui invitent tous les curieux à réfléchir sur les enjeux et les réalités qui façonnent le monde économique actuel. Nous avons conçu la collection Business & Economics en pensant aux nombreux professionnels obligés de se former en permanence en économie, en management, en stratégie ou en marketing. Nos auteurs combinent des éléments de théorie, des pistes de réflexion, et dans certains cas des études de cas et de nombreux exemples pratiques pour permettre aux lecteurs de développer leurs compétences et leur expertise.
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Monitoring Democracy
In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments reliable? When politicians nonetheless cheat and monitors must return to countries even after two decades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitoring Democracy argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevailing arguments that international efforts cannot curb government behavior and that democratization is entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that outside actors often have no power and sometimes even do harm.
Analyzing original data on over 600 monitoring missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her investigation in solid historical context as well as studies of long-term developments over several elections in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of international election monitoring and looks at how practitioners and policymakers might help to improve them.
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UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo : operational and legal issues in practice
This book examines a number of issues associated with contemporary multinational peace operations, and seeks to provide insights into the problems that arise in establishing and deploying such forces to meet the challenges of current conflicts.
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Opening doors
Since the early 1990s, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region have made admirable progress in reducing the gap between girls and boys in areas such as access to education and health care. Indeed, almost all young girls in the Region attend school, and more women than men are enrolled in university. Over the past two decades, maternal mortality declined 60 percent, the largest decrease in the world. Women in MENA are more educated than ever before. It is not only in the protest squares that have seen women whose aspirations are changing rapidly but increasingly unmet. The worldwide average for the participation of women in the workforce is approximately 50 percent. In MENA, their participation is half that at 25 percent. Facing popular pressure to be more open and inclusive, some governments in the region are considering and implementing electoral and constitutional reforms to deepen democracy. These reforms present an opportunity to enhance economic, social, and political inclusion for all, including women, who make up half the population. However, the outlook remains uncertain. Finally, there are limited private sector and entrepreneurial prospects not only for jobs but also for those women who aspire to create and run a business. These constraints present multiple challenges for reform. Each country in MENA will, of course, confront these constraints in different contexts. However, inherent in many of these challenges are rich opportunities as reforms unleash new economic actors. For the private sector, the challenge is to create more jobs for young women and men. The World Bank has been pursuing an exciting pilot program in Jordan to assist young women graduates in preparing to face the work environment.
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The Imperative to Narrate
How do personal stories emerge and shape norm translation in human rights advocacy? This article explores the relationship between personal storytelling and human rights, through a political ethnography of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional LGBT project in China. Drawing on participant observations and interviews with norm translators, the actors who reframe and repackage normative scripts across local-global layers, this article traces how personal stories are used as evidence, a tool of mobilization, and means of localization in the case of emerging LGBT norm. The article argues that, first, instead of training and empowering the narrators, norm translators focus on the selection and organization of typical stories in order to highlight structural restraints in defined areas and justify normative changes. Second, instead of replacing or reframing the local norm, the selected personal stories maintain the centrality of individuals in human rights advocacy, while redefining and shifting the meaning of individuality and personhood to include local norms such as family roles. In contestation, norm translators supplement the stories based on data and lessons from other localities, which reinforce the public and the universalistic character of the human rights issues beyond the impression of being emotional, subjective, and individualistic voices.
Journal Article