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Refugees Have The Right To Education.
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Human rights are not privileges and they can’t be invalidated as they are universal and imprescriptible. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948, states in Article 26:‘Everyone has the right to education’. Since then, the right to education has been reaffirmed in various international treaties including: UNESCO Convention…
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The Politicization of Human Trafficking in T&T
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It is no surprise that Trinidad and Tobago has been known for human trafficking especially when it comes to vulnerable Venezuelan migrants. Since the start of the economic and social collapse of Venezuela, migrants have surged into neighboring countries seeking a better life, however for many that better life became…
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20 Years of Heartache and No Justice
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February 29th, 2020 makes it twenty years since my father was shot and murdered in front of my mother, brother and I. At the mere age of six I watched on as armed men shot my father and took his life on a street in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.Twenty years later…
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Diplomacy In The Modern World ©
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Diplomacy in the Modern World © Diplomacy is the corner stone by which our world can come together as one, in dialogue to achieve a beneficial outcome. We see diplomacy as the execution of foreign policy in the management of international affairs. There…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Is There a Future for Me in T&T
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Life in Trinidad and Tobago is no walk in the park. What sort of life can anyone truly have when they are forced to live in a state of constant fear of crime, corruption and economic turmoil. This “sweet” island paradise was once a land filled with culture, exquisite natural…
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Life after a tragic event…
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How do you continue to have faith after a tragedy has struck? That is probably the most difficult question a person can ask them self when they have lost something or someone that they hold dear to them. I believe that every person at some point in their life experiences…
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Restoring Humanity Through Charity…
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Restoring Humanity through Charity… It is so sad to bear witness to how much society has changed. Don’t get me wrong I’m not talking about the changes we have made for the better, rather the changes we have made which causes us to stray away from the morals, values and…
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Is Venezuela the failed state of South America?
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What can we learn from the Venezuelan Crisis? The ongoing crisis in Venezuela brought on due to extreme economic turmoil and widespread corruption has established a series of civil unrest within several cities including its capital, Caracas. With hundreds of thousands of its nationals going hungry as food becomes even…
Daniel Bertie’s “The Journal”
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