Tag Archives : Third World

Three ads from the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and ACNUR send a message for and in behalf of the world’s refugees via visuals that are so heavily and beautifully photoshopped that one can no longer feel the ugliness of the raging social malaise upon which the public awareness campaign is based. The advertising campaign asks the question: Would [...]

Vibrant economies are fueled by human capital. Today, in the age of globalized economy, that much-needed human capital is composed, to some extent, of migrant labor that has come about due primarily to the phenomenon of migration. The bigger economies of the world thrive on migrant workforces. Those who espouse anti-immigrant sentiment do not see the [...]

Communicable diseases hamper the development of the poorest countries. This is the essence of a study conducted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) that highlights the lack of attention to such diseases, making them turn into epidemics. Complacency towards the possibility of epidemics is the crux of the study [...]

Christopher B. Bajala is a student in one of the poorest public elementary schools in deepest, darkest Third World. He had his worst stage of cerebral palsy in early 2005. He showed difficulty with his fine motor tasks such as holding the pencil and using scissors, maintaining his balance, and even walking. He also had difficulty in his gross motor [...]

The town of Manoot is located in the mountain zone east of Rizal District of the province of Occidental Mindoro in the Philippines. After a very important bridge was repaired, what used to be a two-hour bumpy ride on rough roads is now just forty minutes, though still on rough roads. Manoot is a quiet, sleepy town where houses are found few and far [...]

Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the twenty-first century, according to a report in the medical journal The Lancet, coming from scientists who underscore the need for urgent action. “This is not a disaster movie with a happy ending, but something real,” said Professor Anthony Costello, director of the report, who asserted [...]

The term Third World should not be based on any political or economic criteria. Whose arbitrary criteria are those, anyway? But there may be common characteristics today, post-Cold War, among so-called ‘Third World’ countries. The aggregate term ‘Third World’ has come to mean: 1. The demand and receipt of foreign aid (more aptly called Western [...]

When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that the cause which the national hero of Scotland fought for is no different from the freedom causes that others likewise died fighting for, and still some are fighting for to this day. Wallace [...]

A good leader worthy of loyal following is fundamentally honest. This translates to the corollary qualities of being truthful, ethical, and principled. There is no escaping the fact that the only way to gain people’s trust and confidence is for a leader to have integrity and character. People can only believe the leader that they can trust. A leader [...]

David Hume was a philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the greatest minds of Western Philosophy belonging to empiricism. In the positivist view, Hume believes in the proposition that “A caused B,” or “B happened because of A” or that “Whenever A occurs, then B does.” This necessary connection or necessary relation is what [...]