HHR Flashcards
UK and US invasion of Iraq
-up to almost 500,000 deaths
-Allegations of torture
-collapse of health and sanitation services
-Iraqi government is still struggling
-Violence continues
Kenya
-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
Rwanda
-Genocide, UN withdrew in 1994
-800,000 Rwandans killed in 3 months
-Over 10 years for economy to recover
Malawi
-Aid accounts for 28% of national income
-ravaged by AIDS, dirt poor
-Corrupt officials mean money is being stolen
-Corruption is hard to detect,
Emergency Aid
Bilateral aid
Multilateral aid
NGO aid
-After a disaster
-One country to another
-loans, grants, WTO, UN
-Aid from organisations, small scale, Oxfam
Nigeria
-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
Saudi Arabia
-Lack of human rights for various individuals
-torture
-capital punishment
-sex segregation
-yet UK continue to supply weapons to fight their war in Yemen
Turkey
Erdogans a cunt
Sierra Leone
-Only successful case study of intervention