What should be the role of United Nation?

Introduction

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental association to advance worldwide co-operation. A trade for the incapable League of Nations, the association was set up on 24 October 1945 after World War II with a specific end goal to keep another such clash. At its establishing, the UN had 51 part states; there are presently 193. The base camp of the United Nations is in Manhattan, New York City, and encounters extraterritoriality. Further primary workplaces are arranged in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna. The association is financed by surveyed and intentional commitments from its part states. Its targets incorporate keeping up global peace and security, advancing human rights, encouraging social and financial improvement, ensuring the earth, and giving compassionate guide in instances of starvation, normal calamity, and furnished clash. 
(Yusuf & Shillan)

Roles & Functions

            The upkeep of worldwide peace and security speaks to the main role behind the foundation of the United Nations. It mirrors the expectations and cravings of its originators who looked to set up a worldwide association for accomplishing this end. It is an essential to whatever other reason for the United Nations. Without it no benevolent relations, no global collaboration, and no harmonization of country's activities could be accomplished. In light of the significance of worldwide peace and security, the originators of the United Nations demanded it and stressed it in the preface and the Charter of the Organization. They expressed all the conceivable standards, strategies and methods which are to be taken after to achieve this end. The subject "we are going to make an aggregate security framework, and this time we are going to make it work," overwhelmed the whole procedure of arranging and planning the United Nations Charter. The Charter gave a framework to the pacific settlement or change of question, and the utilization of aggregate measures in danger to or breaks of peace and demonstrations of hostility. The primary technique gave by the framework is that of looking for tranquil settlement or modification of question and circumstance by serene means recorded in the Charter. The second technique is that of taking aggregate activities (measures) of a coercive nature for the counteractive action and expulsion of dangers to the peace and for the concealment of demonstrations of animosity and different ruptures of the peace. The United Nations basically practices its part in keeping up worldwide peace and security.
(Vijayashanti)

1.      United Nations Forces

The utilization of military powers by the United Nations with the end goal of keeping up and reestablishing global peace and security speaks to the viable measures which might be utilized by the Organization under the arrangement of aggregate activities. On numerous events, the United Nations has set up universal military strengths. The sacred bases for the foundation of each of these powers have been distinctive. The errands which these powers have been required to perform have run from a negligible policing activity to an upholding activity. The piece, size and charge have shifted. The relations of the strengths with and inside states have been various. The protected bases for the foundation of United Nations strengths are found in the Charter of the United Nations and the Uniting for Peace Resolution. Under the Charter, the Security Council may, in the final resort, make furnished move including the foundation of worldwide strengths with the end goal of upholding its choices for completion a danger to the peace, break of the peace, or demonstration of hostility.

With respect of the General Assembly, the Uniting for Peace Resolution gives a sacred premise to the foundation of United Nations powers by the General Assembly. The General Assembly may build up United Nations strengths for the errand of actualizing its suggestions with respect to any inquiry, circumstance or question, with the end goal of keeping up global peace and security. The United Nations powers have performed different capacities and errands in understanding to the circumstances of every case. The capacities and assignments of the United Nations strengths have run from a peace-authorizing nature to a peace-keeping nature. The United Nations peace-keeping powers have been endowed to perform peace-building capacities notwithstanding the peace-keeping capacities. Peace-building capacities are capacities expecting to bolster situations and structures which fortify and merge peace and security; zones of movement incorporate military security, common lawfulness, legal building or change, human rights, political advancement choices and races, organization, well being, training, recreation, social improvement and financial improvement. The United Nations peace-keeping powers are progressively accused of capacities identified with peace-working, notwithstanding those identified with the support of peace and security. By and large, they are charged to keep up truces and separate strengths, to keep the repeat of war and brutality, to actualize complete settlement, and to secure or encourage helpful operations and exercises. It appears that there is no restriction on the capacities which the United Nations strengths can perform. Future clashes are liable to show new and complex difficulties to the universal group, to which it will react. Viable reactions to these difficulties will require gallant and innovative game-plans to be taken, and new means and instruments for peace and security to be used.
(Prithik)

2.      Uniting for Peace Resolution

The Uniting for Peace Resolutions allows the General Assembly the forces to act set up of the Security Council if the last fizzles, in view of the absence of unanimity of its changeless individuals, to release its essential obligation in keeping up global peace and security regardless where there seems, by all accounts, to be a danger to the peace, break of the peace or demonstration of aggression. Under this Resolution, the General Assembly may do by proposals anything the Security Council may do by choices. The Assembly may consider the matter quickly and prescribe to individual aggregate measures, incorporating into instance of a rupture of peace or demonstration of hostility the utilization of military regarded fundamental for the upkeep or rebuilding of universal peace and security.

To guarantee that the General Assembly could act instantly and adequately, the Uniting for Peace Resolution gives a technique to calling of a crisis exceptional session of the Assembly. The Assembly may meet in a crisis exceptional session inside twenty-four hours upon the solicitation of any nine individuals from the Council, by the dominant part of individuals from the United Nations, or by one part if the larger part of individuals concur. It ought to be noticed that this privilege conceded to the Assembly is not proposed to be a substitute for the Council's obligation regarding the upkeep of global peace and security, yet rather a supplement.

(Revan)

3.      Pacific Settlement of Disputes

      By and by concerning the pacific settlement of question (or "peacemaking" as it might be known), the United Nations has given different means through which clashes, debate, and circumstances are contained and determined. The Security Council has connected all the accessible strategic strategies in different worldwide question, notwithstanding open civil argument and in the background dialog and campaigning. It hosts called upon the gatherings to a debate to fall back on any serene method for their own particular decision to settle their question. It hosts prescribed to the gatherings particular fitting techniques or strategies for conformity. It hosts prescribed to the gatherings approaches to determine their debate, or terms of settlement. It has dispatched exceptional emissaries or missions for particular assignments, for example, examination, reality discovering, transaction or compromise. It has asked for the Secretary General to help the gatherings in achieving a settlement to their question; the fairness of the Secretary General is one of the United Nations' benefits. The Secretary General has taken discretionary activities to support and keep up the force of transactions. He has utilized his "great workplaces" for intervening, or to work out "preventive strategy", that is, to take activities with a specific end goal to keep question from emerging, to determine them before they grow into clashes or to constrain the spread of contentions when they happen. In numerous examples, the Secretary General has been told to deflect dangers to peace or to secure peace assertions.

To cultivate the upkeep of peace, the General Assembly has held extraordinary or crisis uncommon sessions on issues, for example, demilitarization, and the topic of Palestine. Over years, it has advanced quiet relations among countries by receiving presentations on peace, the serene settlement of question and global participation. It has set up investigatory organs to look at matters under thought by it, and to report back to it. It has set up auxiliary organs for perception, intercession, measurement and great workplaces.

The Security Council and the General Assembly may practice their part in keeping up global peace and security by talks, examinations and proposals. In any case, the likelihood remains that pacific settlement may neglect to determine the question which may turn out to be so genuine as to constitute dangers to or ruptures of the peace or demonstrations of hostility. In such cases, the United Nations may intercede by taking aggregate activities of coercive nature for the aversion and evacuation of the outcomes of such debate.

(Revan & Prithik)

Conclusion

United Nations keep up worldwide peace and security has been the prime obligation of the UN. Amid around 64 years of its presence, it has done an important work in this bearing. It has done a genuinely decent measure of work in the settlement of a few debates, which could have postured genuine dangers to the world peace. Alongside it, the UN has contributed incredibly in the field of decolonization, human rights, demobilization.
(Yusuf & Shillan)

The current tax system is unfair to the middle class and lower income groups.

We agree with the current tax system is unfair to the middle class and lower income groups. The principle issues worried about the execution of GST is the expenses of the products will increment which will load the general population in the nation. Despite the fact that the administration guarantee that the execution of GST won't hurt the organizations and individuals as the assessment paid on the inputs at the past stage is claimable or deductible, by and large the expense of products will at present increment as the makers pass the full esteem added to the end shoppers at the last stage. Therefore, there might have expansion impact subsequent to the GST is connected to the costs of all merchandise, at each stages which bring about swelling as the general items costs may go up and the hyperinflation may happen from the persistently of swelling.

There might have constantly impact from the items costs go up. The interest of the business sector may significantly diminish because of the constrained acquiring force of family units. Numerous individuals contend against the GST is that the general population would not be able to pay for it as the high average cost for basic items cannot be met by their present salary needs and GST would unduly load the low wage working gathering. Because of the expanded items costs and high average cost for basic items, individuals may but rather ready to spend their constrained acquiring power and the business sector interest will generously influenced.

In spite of the fact that the administration guarantee that the GST would not hurt organizations because of GST claimable practice, truth be told it will hurt the organizations as well. This is a result of the low request in the business sector because of the high cost of item go to the end shoppers, the organizations need to diminish the supply to meet the present state of lower interest, hence the organizations need to chop down the costs, for example, work cost because of the lower yield required and in the long run there might happen high rate of unemployment. In addition, the organizations is not creating in the productive conditions as they are not augmenting the use of the machines, rental and so on and all these will lead them to scale back their organizations and in the long run lead to the retreats in a nation.

What's more, GST is another type of wide based assessment that will affect the lion's share of Malaysians who are not the citizens now. In spite of the fact that the administration asserts that the execution of GST would not load the general population in light of the fact that the wage charge rate is not expanding, indeed the GST is expanding the weight of Malaysians who are not the citizens now. This is on the grounds that some individuals is not qualified to pay for money charge where their salary is under sure sums, so the wide based expense framework GST will effect on those low wage specialists who are not the citizens now as they will need to pay for GST when they expend and make buys.

Numerous individuals is stressing the rate of GST may potentially increment later on with a specific end goal to increment for the administration income. This is on the grounds that numerous nations have expanded the rate of GST after its initiation. Individual’s desire and estimation on the expanding rate of GST later on will bring down the general population utilizations as they are unwilling to spend more on the merchandise and rather they are making all the more sparing. The beginning rate of GST is lower than the deals and administration charge, however individuals is stressing the GST rate may considerably higher than the present deals and administrations charge later on.

 

 

In addition, some individuals is contending that the GST ought not be actualized as the acquaintance of GST may lead with higher obligation level of the nation as different nations happens, for example, Greece and Italy. Subsequently, GST has not helped in the improvement of the nation and its would not help in lessening the nation's obligation level. In addition, the proposed usage GST is to upgrade the productivity and adequacy of the current expense framework, however its strength difficult to conform to it’s as it including complex bookkeeping framework and required appropriate review frameworks as well. Ultimately, individuals is stressing that the redistribution of expanded expense income won't not be accomplished or unjustifiably. Maybe executing GST will constrain purchasers to spend less and more cautious in the retail decisions as individuals are trepidation of the startling expansion and outcomes result from the usage of GST.

        In other words, the tax will impose a smaller burden (relative to resources) on those who are wealthier. It is expected that the lower income earners will pay more GST(GST) payable as percentage of income) than the higher income earner. The authors also found that it is not possible to make GST a progressive tax and reduce the GST burden on the low and middle-income groups if it is necessary to raise the same amount of tax revenue. Therefore, the low- income households will bear the higher GST tax burden. On the other hand, is only collected from those who have surplus wealth and nothing is taken from those who have no surplus wealth

        The execution of GST could raise obstructions to upward social versatility for the lower salary family units (Zhou et al., 2013) . Low - salary families spend more on essential things, for example, sustenance and utilities. A charge on nourishment utilization in addition to other things, will promote limit the ability to put something aside for some of the lower salary family units. Without adequate reserve funds, the poor could confront colossal challenges in collecting resources or have better access to data innovation and instruction . Resultantly, GST is broadening the separation between those who are well off and have notes. On the other hand, the motivation behind is to redistribute riches from those who are well off to the have notes.

        

       Besides, wage bolster gave to the low-wage family units would bring about upward move sought after for products and administrations, particularly essential necessities of life, for example, nourishment and attire. The news about this issue as below:

KUALA LUMPUR: All the reasons trotted about the benefits of the goods and services tax (GST) for the nation makes no difference to the man on the street who doesn’t earn much.

The poorer households will feel the effects of GST because a higher proportion of their income will be spent on GST. Those in the high-income bracket would pay more on taxable items but they will hardly feel the pinch while middle-income earners would be able to cope, reported The Malaysian Insider. These findings emerged from a survey of 12 families in the Klang Valley to gauge the impact of GST. The 6% GST comes into effect on April 1 and the only good news for all is that, almost all common fresh foods will be exempt, such as fish, poultry, mutton, beef, vegetables, fruits, herbs and seafood.

Some processed foods such as bread, rice, sugar, salt, belacan, tea, coffee, fresh noodles, infant milk formula and white flour will also not be taxed. But almost all household items and toiletries, such as soap, shampoo, detergent, floor cleaner, dish washing liquid and insecticide sprays will be taxed. Most over-the-counter medicines and all kinds of clothes will be taxed as well as shoes, bags, make-up and other beauty accessories.

It is estimated that only 1.7 million Malaysians pay income tax out of a workforce of 12 million, and according to the government, the GST is fairer and more transparent because those who consume more, pay more. To cushion the effects of the GST, the government is expected to slash personal income taxes by between 1% to 3% for all income brackets.

But this is hardly good news for low-income families. The three families surveyed who made RM5,000 or less were quite worried about the GST’s impact on their ability to make ends meet, despite the fact that they would not pay that much GST if they bought the same things.

However accountant Aziz Mustapa, 63, would likely have more taxable items in his shopping basket if his spending pattern remained unchanged yet he was relatively unworried because his household income was between RM10,000 and RM15,000 a month. Most of the five families in the middle-income range of between RM5,000 and RM12,000 a month were somewhat worried but confident they would be able to get by.

The most pronounced consumption trend was that high-income households tended to buy more processed foods, which would be taxed such as chocolates, biscuits, chicken nuggets, potato chips and fruit juices. The receipts of the four high-income families showed that out of the total number of items they bought, 55% to 89% would be taxed. They had fresh food, but the proportion of fresh food to processed foods was slightly higher, compared with low-income families.

For the high-income families in the survey, processed food made up 40% to 48% of all food they bought while for low-income families, processed food comprised 35% to 45% of all food. Low-income earners still bought processed foods, such as jam, butter, peanut butter, instant noodles, coffee, creamer, soy sauce and biscuits, which would be taxed.

As a conclusion, GST is a regressive tax and imposes a burden on end-user consumers of products. GST seems to have a negative impact as lower income earners pay more tax than higher income earners. It promotes inflation which reduces the purchasing power of consumers, and raises barriers to upward social mobility for the lower income households. In the long run, inflation may trigger higher interest rates and dampen private investment as well as overall economic growth.

References:

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prezi.com. (2016). GST & HOW IT EFFECTS LOW INCOME EARNERS. [online] Available at: https://prezi.com/newk83frd7hf/gst-how-it-effects-low-income-earners/ [Accessed 3 May 2016].

Earners, I. (2015). Financial Market Analytics: Implications of GST on the Malaysian Low and Middle Income Earners. [online] Samcheekong.blogspot.my. Available at: http://samcheekong.blogspot.my/2015/03/implications-of-gst-on-malaysian-low.html [Accessed 3 May 2016].

People who have changed the world

 

Dato Ruby Khong

Dato 'Ruby Khong, who was on the list of Heroes of Philanthropy Forbes Asia in 2010, is by itself make the mainstream of charity. As the driving force behind Kechara Soup Kitchen, a foundation that aims to feed and provide medical assistance to the homeless in Malaysia, which actually began his journey like any other fashionable lady, decked Chanel feet to head.

       When she met his spiritual guide in India, His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, Dato 'Ruby had in his sunnies, shirt, jeans, handbag, wallet and shoes - all from Chanel. "My spiritual guide was skillful. He told me," You should not spend money on this and that ", have said goodbye!" Says Dato 'Ruby of his first encounter with the man who stood in the way to where it is today. Being the youngest of three sisters, Dato 'Ruby was very close to her mother and shares the same admirable qualities, which has been transmitted to their children. "Growing up, my parents had many problems, and my mother kept everything to herself. She was stronger than me wife and my sisters up too. My mother taught me how should grow or behave," says Dato 'Ruby. "It is for thecharacter of my mother that I have become what I am."
 
       A mother of three children herself, Dato 'Ruby speaks of them with unbridled pride. "Elena, 28 years, my firstborn, and share a very special bond. She is very sensitive to tuning and feelings. As they say, the firstborn will always be the baby of the family, no matter how old they are" he says cheerfully about his eldest daughter. "Elisa, 27, on the other hand, is gregarious. She is a very kind person, and Clifford, 26, my son, is a robot with a mind," he laughs, explaining, "He is tremendously disciplined, well organized , and does not like to see people suffer. "

       "My mother has always seen me as another sentient being. Because of this, we are able to have open conversations, as she sees me as more than your child," says Pastor Elena Khong, which is on its way to becoming a nun. "When I was 14, he told me that if I knew then what you know now, she would never have had children I was dumbfounded until she elaborates. - She said she loves us but having kids meant I spent 18 years focusing all their time , energy and resources on a few individuals. If she had spent the same amount of time and childless, she could have focused on and changed the lives of perhaps thousands of people. I know some may sound harsh to them, maybe even extreme but I chose to view it differently. Then I realized how much capacity of my mother has to love. it was then I decided not to have children, which made my decision to become a much easier nun. but over the years, has been very tolerant of my crazy ideas. I've gone from wanting to be a pilot, a Navy SEAL (canceled quickly when I realized it has to be American), an environmental activist, a politician, a marine biologist. At each step of the way, she never once told me I was crazy. Instead, materials would be in my way or send their experiences to help learn more about this path. For example, when I wanted to be a marine biologist, the next family vacation to Australia, where all the activities we did and every hotel we stayed in was something about dolphins. "

       The influence of Dato 'Ruby on their children is inspiring. It's all about giving and helping those around them. When he asked Clifford only thing that would change the course of history, his response was, "to stop the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, an incredible man who could have continued to do so much more." His words are a true reflection of the way her mother raised her children in an incredible positive way.

       His second daughter, Elisa, share the same exuberant laughter as his mother and a pure love to give. He is currently the director of corporate communications and Kechara Soup Kitchen Kechara Rainforest Retreat, which supports the development of conscious individuals through universal programs that inculcate positive values. "We must look for opportunities to give to others who live on less than ourselves Kechara Soup Kitchen offers the same opportunity and has given me the privilege of practicing generosity, caring for others, and most importantly, balance -. For see that all are equally worthy of my love and care, regardless of their classification in society ".

       Everyone and anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Dato 'Ruby would agree that their positivity and joy inspire all those around him to make a difference in the world. As Clearly, Dato 'Ruby and once said the late Mother Teresa, "Sometimes we think that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of not being loved, loved, and loved it is the greatest poverty." his family are well on their way to making the world a better way.

 

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad

Malaysia’s development has improved leaps and bounds in the last 55 years of independence. With our short history, we were given the privilege to be under the command of 5 previous Prime Ministers. Now sky scrapers proudly graze our skies, with our planes touching down at our own Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Malaysians are also gifted with an education system that has contributed a significant impact on our citizens. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad played an important role in improving Malaysia status and image to both the citizens and foreigners. He was an individual who had a visionary mind and was someone who was always trying to improve Malaysia for its citizen.

Tun Dr Mahathir was famous for his visionary mind that had no limit. One of the main reasons he was a good leader and adored by his people was his innovative ideas on improving the lives of the Malaysian people. He launched Vision 2020 in 1991 as a step to familiarize the citizens of Malaysia with the future he planned for the country. Vision 2020 was a thirty-year plan of the steps needed to be taken by Malaysians to ensure the rapid development of the country that was stemmed by none other than Tun Dr Mahathir himself. According to him, in order for Malaysians to proceed towards its goals, the citizens of Malaysia were to face nine challenges. Not only that, Vision 2020 was also used to establish a single, united Malaysian nation that would unite our multi-racial citizens. With Vision 2020, Tun Dr Mahathir also develop a plan to build a symbol for the nation by constructing the World’s tallest building. The creation of the Petronas Twin towers started on 1992 and was completed in 1997. The Petronas Twin Towers came to be the tallest from 1997 until 2003. With his ties with Petronas, Tun Dr Mahathir urged Petronas to reach out abroad to secure future petroleum supplies.

During his time, Tun Dr Mahathir also reached out to improve the development of the science and technology sector in Malaysia. He had previously said that he did not want Malaysia to be left behind in the new IT-based industries and business.(Tun Dr Mahathir, 2002) Thus, a Japanese business consultant, Kenichi Ohmae had helped him to understand the rapidly unfolding developments of the science and technology sector. As a result, Tun Dr Mahathir had decided to build Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) situated at Cyberjaya. According to Tun Dr Mahathir (2011), the range of industries using information and conducting research on information-based technology and its applications, together with various other businesses based on information technology and telecommunications, would be located. Moreover, science and technology has been emphasized in the Vision 2020. Malaysians have to start innovating and developing on our own, not just be passive recipients and consumers according to Tun Dr Mahathir, 2011. Additionally, we have to stand alongside other creative nations and be leaders in scientific discovery and technological innovation. (Mahathir, 2011, p.500)

Last but not least, Tun Dr Mahathir had also greatly contributed to the Malaysian education system. He had managed to introduce Science and Mathematics to be taught in English (PPSMI) for students from primary schools until secondary school. Even though this program did not pan out as planned, but it still had managed to leave a remarkable value on the importance of learning English to Malaysian citizens. It also had manage to open the eyes of teenagers of the important role of English has in the field of science and technology. According to Tun Dr Mahathir, science in particular changes and advances rapidly. That is why good command in English would assist greatly on Malaysians to keep up with the rapid development. Moreover, most area of modern life applies knowledge using the English language. In addition, Tun Dr Mahathir wants everyone to study in one type of school so he makes Government National Secondary School as well-equipped and attractive.

In a nutshell, Tun Dr Mahathir has proven himself as a worthy leader. With his visionary mind and brilliant ideas he played an important role in improving the science and technology sector in Malaysia. He was also responsible in improving our education system. Through the years, Tun Dr Mahathir is now remembered most for his achievement on making Malaysia better place through Vision 2020, which has become not only his dream but a dream for the whole nation.        

References

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