Human Resource Development in Pakistan - 6755 Words

THE CHALLENGES OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN Dr. Nasim Ashraf Abstract This paper explores the challenges posed in the area of human development in Pakistan. Pakistan has made little progress in key indicators of human development - education and health - due to years of neglect in policy making and implementation issues. Based on available data, it is highlighted that despite achieving a respectable growth rate, Pakistan has not been able to reduce poverty as other nations have (with similar or even lower levels of GDP per capita). Poor human development has also hampered economic growth. The paper brings out the principal challenges of human resource development in Pakistan, which are mainly the untrained,†¦show more content†¦Pakistan HDI ranking is very low - 142 out of 175 countries according to Human Development Report 2004 - depicting the poor level of human development in the country (see Figure 1 below). Figure 1: HDI Comparison Source: Human Development Report 2004 – UNDP A high GDP does not necessarily mean a high degree of human development which is indicated below by a comparison of selected countries showing their standing on HDI, including Pakistan (Figure 2). Figure: No.2: HDI vs. GDP per capita Vietnam has been able to decrease poverty by one half between 1990-2000 because of its relatively higher investments in female literacy and basic health care (see Figure 3 below). Figure 3: Comparison of Human Development Indicators: Vietnam vs. Pakistan [pic] In the context of South Asia, Pakistan has the lowest net enrollment rates in the region according to the UNDP Human Development Report (see below). Figure 4: Net Primary Enrollment Rate (%) Regional Comparison Source: Human Development Report 2004 - UNDP Pakistan has the highest rate of infant and under-5 child mortality in the region, according to Human Development Report (see below). 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Elian Gonzalez and US-Cuba Relations

Elian Gonzalez is a Cuban citizen who was brought to the U.S. in 1999 by his mother on a boat that capsized and killed almost all of its passengers. Despite his fathers pleas to return his five-year-old son to Cuba, Elians Miami-based relatives insisted on keeping him in the U.S. The little boy was used as a political pawn in the decades-long fight between the Cuban government and anti-communist Miami Cuban exiles. After months of court battles, U.S. federal agents raided the Miami relatives home to seize Elian and return him to his father. The Elian Gonzalez affair is considered a major development in Cuba-U.S. policy. Fast Facts: Elian Gonzalez Full Name: Elià ¡n Gonzà ¡lez BrotonsKnown For:  Surviving a treacherous sea voyage from Cuba to the U.S. as a five-year-old boy and becoming a political pawn in the fight between Miami Cuban exiles and the Cuban government.Born:  December 6, 1993 in Cà ¡rdenas, CubaParents:  Juan Miguel Gonzà ¡lez, Elizabeth Brotons Rodrà ­guezEducation:  University of Matanzas, Engineering, 2016 Early Life Elian Gonzalez Brotons was born to Juan Miguel Gonzà ¡lez and Elizabeth Brotons Rodrà ­guez on December 6, 1993 in the port city of Cà ¡rdenas, on Cubas northern coast. Although the couple had divorced in 1991, they still decided to have a child together. They separated in 1996 for good, but remained co-parents. In 1999, Brotons was convinced by her boyfriend, Là ¡zaro Munero, to flee Cuba via boat, and they took five-year-old Elian with them, effectively kidnapping him (as Brotons didnt have permission from Juan Miguel). Voyage to the U.S. An aluminum boat carrying 15 passengers left Cà ¡rdenas in the early morning hours of November 21, 1999. A few days later, the boat capsized off the Florida Keys, and all passengers except Elian and two adults drowned. Two fishermen spotted an inner tube around 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, November 25, and rescued the little boy, taking him to the hospital for medical treatment. The next day, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS, the former name for ICE) released him into the temporary custody of his great-uncles, Là ¡zaro and Delfà ­n Gonzà ¡lez, and Là ¡zaros daughter Marisleysis, who became a temporary mother figure to the boy. Marisleysis Gonzalez (L) helps her cousin Elian Gonzalez (C) decorate a Christmas tree at her home in Miami 22 December, 1999, after finding out that immigration officials have delayed a hearing to decide the six-year-olds fate to 21 January, 2000.   Bill Cooke / Getty Images Almost immediately, Juan Miguel Gonzà ¡lez demanded the return of his son to Cuba and even filed a complaint with the United Nations to gain visibility, but his uncles refused. The State Department recused itself in the matter of custody, leaving it up to the Florida courts. A Little Boy Becomes a Political Pawn Just days after his rescue, the Miami exile community saw an opportunity to humiliate Fidel Castro and began using photos of Elian on posters, declaring him another child victim of Fidel Castro. As discussed by Miguel De La Torre, a scholar who studies religion in Latin America, Miami Cubans saw him not only as a symbol of the evils of Cuban socialism, but as a sign from God that the Castro regime was on its last legs. They viewed his survival in the treacherous waters as a miracle and even began circulating the myth that dolphins had encircled Elians inner tube to protect him from sharks. Local politicians flocked to the Gonzà ¡lez home for photo-ops and an influential political consultant, Armando Gutià ©rrez, appointed himself spokesperson for the family. The hardline Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) also got involved. Elians relatives threw him a big 6th birthday bash on December 6, attended by major politicians like Congressional representative Lincoln Dà ­az-Balart. Elian Gonzalez is held by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fl., during the Three Kings Parade 09 January, 2000, in Miamis Little Havana.   Rhona Wise / Getty Images Elians Miami relatives soon filed for political asylum for the little boy, stating that his mother had fled Cuba seeking freedom for her son and that she would have wanted him to remain with his Miami relatives. Contradicting this narrative, Brotons did not appear to have fled Cuba as a political refugee, but rather was following her boyfriend to Miami. In fact, journalist Ann Louise Bardach, who has written extensively on Cuba, notes that Brotons hadnt even planned on contacting the Gonzà ¡lez family, as they were relatives of her ex-husband. On the other side of the Florida Strait, Fidel Castro milked the Elian affair for political capital, demanding the boy be returned to his father and staging mass, government-organized demonstrations drawing tens of thousands of Cubans. Some 160,000 Cuban children march 12 June, 2000, to the US Interest Office in Havana to demand the return of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Adalberto Roque / Getty Images   In January 2000, the INS ruled that Elian should be returned to his father in Cuba within a week. There were mass demonstrations to protest the ruling in Miami. Elians relatives filed to declare Là ¡zaro Gonzà ¡lez his legal guardian. While a local court granted him emergency custody, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno rejected the ruling, insisting that the family file in federal court. On January 21, Elians two grandmothers traveled from Cuba to visit with their grandson, the result of a deal between U.S. diplomats and Fidel Castro. They were able to visit with Elian at a neutral location in Miami, but were never allowed to be alone with him and felt he was being manipulated by Marisleysis the whole time. The Miami exile community had predicted that either or both of the women would defect from Cuba during their time in the U.S., but neither expressed any desire to that effect. US Rep. Maxine Waters (C), D-CA, speaks to reporters outside her office after meeting with grandmothers of six-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez, Raquel Rodriguez (L) and Mariela Quintana (2nd R) 28 January 2000 on Capitol Hill in Washington DC.   Chris Kleponis / Getty Images In April, the State Department approved visas for Juan Miguel and his new wife and son to travel to the U.S. They arrived on April 6 and met with Janet Reno on April 7; soon after, Reno announced the governments intentions to return Elian to his father. On April 12, Reno initiated negotiations with the Miami Gonzà ¡lez family, but they refused to release Elian. The Raid Fed up with the stalling of the Gonzà ¡lez family, on April 22, before dawn, federal agents raided their home and seized Elian, reuniting him with his father. Due to court proceedings and mass demonstrations, they were not able to return to Cuba until June 28. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, right, speaks to reporters as attorney Gregory Craig looks on before he boards a jet for his return to Cuba with his son Elian Gonzalez June 28, 2000 at Dulles International Airport in Washington.   Alex Wong / Getty Images Miami Cubans had miscalculated the larger reception of attempting to keep Elian away from his father. Instead of generating sympathy for their anti-Castro ideology, it backfired and led to widespread critique among Americans. NPRs Tim Padgett stated, The world called Miami a banana republic. Critics said the Cuban-American communitys intolerance—and the way it turned a traumatized child into a political football—was more reminiscent of none other than ... Fidel Castro. A former CANF president later admitted that it was a huge mistake and that he had not taken into account the perspective of more recent Cuban exiles (such as the Marielitos and balseros or rafters), who were in favor of normalizing relations with Cuba because of their continued ties with family members on the island. In fact, the Elian affair aided the argument of Miami Cubans who wanted normalization: they highlighted the ineffectiveness and exaggerated nature of the rhetoric surrounding the longstanding hardline U.S. policy toward Cuba. Return to Cuba and Relationship With Fidel Elian and Juan Miguel were given a heros welcome upon their return to Cuba. From that point on, Elian ceased to be just another Cuban boy. Fidel regularly attended his birthday parties. In 2013, he said to the Cuban media, Fidel Castro for me is like a father...I dont profess to have any religion, but if I did my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path. Elian continued to be invited to high-profile political events and was part of the official mourning ceremonies for Castro following his November 2016 death. Cuban President Fidel Castro (C) talks with Elian Gonzalez (L), 14 July 2001 in Cardenas, Cuba during a political gathering to inaugurate the Museo a la Batalla de Ideas, where a range of objects relating to Elians custody battle in the US is being exhibited. Adalberto Roque / Getty Images   Juan Miguel was elected to the Cuban National Assembly in 2003; a waiter by profession, its unlikely that political ambitions would have surfaced if his son had not been the focus of a major controversy. Elian Gonzalez Today In 2010, Elian entered the military academy and went on to study industrial engineering at the University of Matanzas. He graduated in 2016 and currently works as a technology specialist for a state-run company. Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who was rescued off the coast of Florida 16 years ago, talks to the press at Havanas Revolution Square where people are paying their respects to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on November 29, 2016, as tributes to the late former president are being held across the country.   STR / Getty Images Elian has been one of the most outspoken defenders of the Revolution in his generation and is a member of the Unià ³n de Jà ³venes Comunistas (Young Communist League), the Cuban Communist Partys youth organization. In 2015, he stated, I have fun, play sports, but I am also involved with the work of the revolution and realize that young people are essential for the development of the country. He noted how lucky he was to have survived the dangerous voyage from Cuba to the U.S. and, echoing the Cuban governments rhetoric, blamed the U.S. embargo for pushing people to flee by boat: Just like [my mother], many others have died attempting to go to the United States. But its the U.S. governments fault...Their unjust embargo provokes an internal and critical economic situation in Cuba. In 2017, CNN Films released a documentary about Elian featuring interviews with him, his father, and his cousin Marisleysis. On his 25th birthday, in December 2018, he created a Twitter account. Thus far, he has only posted one tweet, which states that he decided to create an account to thank Cuban President Miguel Dà ­az-Canel for his birthday wishes and to follow and support him. Sources Bardach, Ann Louise. Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. New York: Random House, 2002.De La Torre, Miguel A. La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.Vulliamy, Ed. Elià ¡n Gonzà ¡lez and the Cuban crisis: fallout from a big row over a little boy. The Guardian, 20 February 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/21/elian-gonzalez-cuba-tug-war, accessed 29 September 2019.

Aborts are Legal Essay - 853 Words

Abortion is not easy decision, but women has made that choice for hundreds years, for many different reasons. Since 1973 abortions are legal in the United States, but we have some people who still are disagree with this position. They are talking about religion, that children are viewed as a gift from the Lord, about the health, and about the moral side of the issue. Should a fetus have rights equal or superior to woman’s? We can find many reasons for abortions and against it, but I think women have the legal right to make their own decision. The illegal abortions done in back alleys are become dangerous, expensive and humiliating. The reason for abortion can basically be divided into three categories. These categories are based upon the†¦show more content†¦In addition, to the fact that abortions kill innocent human beings, anti-abortionists believe that they also damage the mental, as well as physical condition of the mother. Since, after an abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression. In the case of congenital defects, the pro-life activists argue that such indications of a disease, do not guarantee that the child will be born into a life of suffering. They believe that through love, and guidance anyone with any form of deformity or disease, can lead a normal life. The cases pertaining to rape also have different anti-abortionists views. Many anti-abortionists believe that the child can actually help the mother get through the turbulent times in her life, by providing each other with a loving environment. Finally, in the case of economics, the pro-life activi sts believe that having an abortion due to financial reasons is ridiculous. Because, it doesn’t mean that the child will have a life full of isolation and depression. The pro-life activists argue that there are also numerous welfare programs for such families. 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Dying With Dignity. The Right To Assisted Suicide Is A

Dying With Dignity The right to assisted suicide is a significant topic that concerns people all over the United States. The debates go back and forth about whether a dying patient has the right to die with the assistance of a physician. Some are against it because of religious and moral reasons. Others are for it because of their compassion and respect for the dying. Physicians are also divided on the issue. They differ where they place the line that separates relief from dying--and killing. For many the main concern with assisted suicide lies with the competence of the terminally ill. Many terminally ill patients who are in the final stages of their lives have requested doctors to aid them in exercising active euthanasia. It is sad to†¦show more content†¦Some terminal patients in the past have gone to their doctors and asked for a final medication that would take all the pain away— lethal drugs. 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