HHR Flashcards

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UK and US invasion of Iraq

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-up to almost 500,000 deaths
-Allegations of torture
-collapse of health and sanitation services
-Iraqi government is still struggling
-Violence continues

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Kenya

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-UK supply Kenya with weapons to keep peace
-Corruption has persisted
-Elections in 2017 and Odinga lost
-Annulled in 2017
-No independent election authority so people fear their lives

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Rwanda

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-Genocide, UN withdrew in 1994
-800,000 Rwandans killed in 3 months
-Over 10 years for economy to recover

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Malawi

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-Aid accounts for 28% of national income
-ravaged by AIDS, dirt poor
-Corrupt officials mean money is being stolen
-Corruption is hard to detect,

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Emergency Aid
Bilateral aid
Multilateral aid
NGO aid

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-After a disaster
-One country to another
-loans, grants, WTO, UN
-Aid from organisations, small scale, Oxfam

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Nigeria

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-Niger Delta oil companies heavily pollute the river
-Negatively affects locals, no infrastructure
-Millitant groups have formed to pressure the government and for oil bunkering

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Saudi Arabia

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-Lack of human rights for various individuals
-torture
-capital punishment
-sex segregation
-yet UK continue to supply weapons to fight their war in Yemen

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Turkey

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Erdogans a cunt

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Sierra Leone

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-Only successful case study of intervention

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