Tied aid is help that is given with strings attached. These strings may include agreements that the country receiving the aid will buy goods and services only from the country or organization supplying the aid. There's a lot of different criticisms that come from tied aid. Opposing views would argue that donor countries may not offer the highest-quality goods and services and also that this arrangement doesn’t allow receiving countries to buy from a source they want to. Another problem is ensuring that aid reaches the people who need it. Some corrupt officials sometimes seize aid money and supplies instead of distributing it to needy citizens simply because they have the power to do so. Personally, I mainly disagree with tied aid. I understand that wealthier countries are helping developing countries, but why do strings have to be attached? Can't people just help out of kindness or compassion? Why do strings have to be attached to everything? The majority of people do an act looking for something to gain, which is ridiculous. WTO stands for World Trade Organization. The purpose of the WTO is to ensure global trade commences smoothly, freely and predictably. The WTO creates and embodies the ground rules for global trade among member nations, offering a system for international commerce. WTO is funded through the WTO's regular budget, voluntary contributions from WTO members, and cost-sharing either by countries involved in an event or by international organizations. The WTO has many criticisms such as how they only serve the interests of multinational corporations, they trample over labor and human rights, they’re destroying the environment and killing people, they undermine local development and penalizes poor countries, they’re increasing inequality, and the WTO undermines national sovereignty. Like everything, there is always pros and cons. I think that there are more obvious cons than pros. But the WTO has still done some positive impacting things. WTO helps promote peace between nations, raises income among nations, reduces the cost of living, and makes life more efficient through policies. The United Nations Children's Fund is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. UNICEF was established on 11 December 1946 by the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China. Its full name was the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. UNICEF advocates for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is supported entirely by the voluntary contributions of governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), foundations, corporations and private individuals. UNICEF receives no funding from the assessed dues of the United Nations. Again, there is pros and cons for everything. UNICEF has been criticized at times for its focus or for specific policies. In 2004, the editorial in the Lancet argued that UNICEF's rights-based approach to child welfare, based upon the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whilst in accordance with international development policy, leads to a lower emphasis on child survival and mortality. The Catholic Church has also been critical of UNICEF, with the Vatican at times withdrawing its donations, because of reports by the American Life League and others that UNICEF has used some of those funds to finance sterilizations and abortions. Catholics have also accused UNICEF of supporting abortion through their endorsement of "good quality abortion services" at the International Conference on Better Health for Women and Children in Kenya in 1987. UNICEF has also been criticized for its financial endorsement of China's allegedly coercive one-child policy through the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) by increasing donations from $2 million to $5 million in 1993. I personally think that UNICEF is an amazing organization that has dealt with so many negative situations, and improved many of them. NPT stands for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament. The NPT was opened for signing 50 years ago on July 1, 1968. This treaty effectively bars any state outside the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom) from possessing any sort of nuclear weapons.
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Brynna Nelson
6/6/2018 12:18:02 pm
I like how you gave enough of a description so people know what you are talking about but at the same time your paragraphs are reasonably length. Good Job.
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kirk
6/6/2018 12:19:01 pm
i like how far into detail you went in each of the topics you chose and knew what you were talking about
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