Monday, January 10, 2011
Global Issue Topics List
Please post your list of ten global issues you are interested in for your research paper. Next to three of your topics, you should include a 2-3 sentence statement of what the issue is all about (this should be in your own words--don't lift this from another source). Finally, please put an asterisk before the topic you have chosen for your research paper. Thanks!
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1. Human Trafficking on the India and Nepal border: This is one of the most populated areas for people to be trafficked. They mostly get tricked into "going to get married, going to start a new job, or some other convincing lie," then they get taken across the border of India into Nepal or vis versa and are trafficked sexually more than anything. These people, mostly women, are raped and sold again and again to get raped some more.
ReplyDelete2. Orphanages: There are orphanages all over the world that are government owned and the government does nothing! There are dying children in these and no one cares about it. The government is supposed to check up on the orphanage every week to make sure everything is running smoothly, but they never check because the people who are working in the orphanage do not care so they just sit around and don't pay attention to the kids.
3. Racism
4. Global Warming
5. World Hunger
**6. Write up on how Haiti is now: There are 75% of people living in tents. 44% of the people are drinking unsanitary water and 27% have no access to sanitation. They feel like they have been forgotten and that no one is trying to help them get back to how Haiti was. There has been a rapid break out of cholera because of the terrible conditions that most of these people are still living in.
7. Child Labor
8. AIDS in Africa
9. Poverty
10. Environmental Issues
1. Icebergs melting in Greenland
ReplyDelete........1. The iceberg concerned in Greenland started as a chunk of ice four times larger than Manhattan, making this the largest iceberg since 1962. Now, it is only 100 square miles and the height of half the empire state building.
........2. According to Andreas Muenchow, a University of Delaware researcher, this iceberg could keep all of the US supplied with flowing tap water for 120 days.
........3. The iceberg is thought to be headed towards the Nare Strait between Greenland and Canada. If this happens, it is likely that the iceberg will get stuck in the narrow waterway, blocking key trading and shipping routes.
2. HIV/AIDS in Africa
3. Illiteracy in Africa
4. Humanitarian Issues in Gaza
5. Dioxin Scandal in Germany
6. New Smoking Laws in Spain
7. H1N1 Comeback in Ireland (H1N1 Flu Virus in general)
*****8. Arms Race in the UN
........1. Arms race is an ever growing problem that many countries have put up with for many years. Arms race is simply when one country gets a new weapon, and another country tries to top that weapon. This process keeps building on its self, becoming more and more of a threat.
........2. China has indicated that it is tired of the American efforts being made to "contain" the Chinese authority in the Pacific. Beijing alone is now expanding its maritime forces off-shore to attempt at forcing the US warships out of the Western Pacific.
........3. This is making India worried about the growing presence of Chinese naval vessels and port facilities in the Indian Ocean. This is an area that New Delhi feels belongs in their security zone. As a result, India is expanding its naval plans to include three new aircraft carriers and several nuclear-powered stealth submarines.
........4. Japan, however, is nervous because it has both North Korea and China aiming at them.
9. Hungary's Corporate Taxes
10. Japan to propose close Military ties with South Korea
11. WikiLeaks
12. Illegal Drug Trade
13. Insurgency
14. Floods in Queensland
15. Pulp and Paper industry vs. Key Tiger Territory
........1. The Bukit Tigapuluh is one of the few remaining rainforests in Indonesia's Sumatra Islands. Bukit Tigapuluh is made up of about 320,000 hectares of natural forest. This forest houses about 30 of the 300 Sumatran tigers which still live on the island. It has been declared one of 20 landscapes critical to the survival of tigers by international scientists.
........2. Approximately 150 elephants, 130 Sumatran orangutans, and two forest-dwelling tribes also live in Bukit Tigapuluh.
........3. The companies associated with this crisis is the Asia Pulp & Paper/ Sinar Mas Group (APP/SMG).
........4. More than half of the tigers killed are from protected areas, proving that the patrol system is ineffective. The law enforcement for tiger poachers has been weak because the judicial officers are not familiar with the Conservation Act. The Conservation Act assigns much heavier sentences than common criminal law.
16. Global Water Treaty
17. Mountain Gorilla Population decreases
18. Central Africa Clamps down on Smugglers
19. Copenhagen going green isn't enough according to UNEP
20. Russia introduces ban on Korean Pine Logging
1. Drug wars in mexico- Juarez, Acapulco- rival gangs (shootings, kidnappings, massacre, etc)
ReplyDelete2. La Chureca city dump in Managua
3. Cholera outbreak in Haiti
4. One child rule in China- forced abortions kept secret
5. Overpopulation- especially in areas like China and Japan
6. Poverty in south Africa
7. Immigration
• Mexico
• turkey
8. blood and conflict diamonds
9. Trafficking
• human, drugs, weapons
o Nepal into India, etc.
10. World water shortage
• lack of clean, healthy water
11. Orphans in Mexico
(sentence descriptions of top 3 issues)
****Drug wars in Mexico
• Since June 2008, reports on Mexico’s bloody drug war have flooded the country. There are kidnappings, shootings, threats, massacres, gangs, and cartels that are ripping apart Mexico thread by thread. Thousands have died in this seemingly endless circle of violence.
- La Chureca
• La Chureca, a city dump located Managua, Nicaragua, is home to roughly 1,500 people. However, their home cannot be considered a home in even the least of our standards. They live in piles and miles of trash in huts composed of scattered trash. To attain any electricity they must steal it and few have clean water for bathing. Disease, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, unsanitary conditions, and prostitution are the main components of life in La Chureca.
- Forced Abortions in China
• Because of the one child rule policy in China, women carrying their second and third children have been dragged into hospitals, even at late stages such as nine months, for forced abortions. These situations have been suppressed due to the illegality of the forced abortions by the government, but horrifying stories are surfacing in regards to their brutality.
1. Human Rights: Mauritian Sex Workers Demand Rights
ReplyDelete2. A Caribbean Cinderella: St. Domingo’S Colonial Zone
3. Nicaragua: Lobster Divers in Deep Trouble
4. Hiv/Aids: Fund Rejection Worries Health Campaigners:
Health rights activists in Malawi are expressing concern over the recent rejection of the country’s proposal for close to six hundred million dollars to the Global Fund to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria between 2011 and 2016. These people really need the money to stop the spread but the government doesn’t want to help do anything about it after they said they would.
5. Biodiversity: A Year for Limited Optimism
6. Uganda: 'Why Waste ARVs on Sex Workers?'
7. Africa's Future Lies In A Green Energy Grid
8. ********Pakistan: When Men Fear Telling Their Wives About HIV :
As a peer educator at a local HIV/AIDS organisation, Ahmad (not his real name) has taken care to teach his own wife anything and everything he knows about the disease. He doesn’t want to tell his wife that he has the disease and this is the case in many families. Also, may kids are contracting the disease through their mothers.
9. Rights-China: Crackdowns Do Little to Address Sex Work
10. Gambia: Families Left Homeless by Floods :
Amie Manneh and her family lived securely in their single-bedroom home in Bundung, 15 kilometers from the capital, Banjul. Then their home was destroyed by heavy rainfall in September. Since then Amie, her husband and six children have been living in the damaged house.
1. Honor Killings
ReplyDeletehttp://www.examiner.com/american-politics-in-vancouver/arizona-muslim-immigrant- stands-trial-for- running-over-daughter-honor-killing
- To bring shame upon your family is considered one of the worst things to a Indian family. So insulting to the family, that they would kill to have that scandal expunged from their reputation. Many people (mostly women) are brutally murdered by their own flesh and blood. Avoiding an arranged marriage, running away from home, being forced into human trafficking, and being raped, are all reasons to an Indian father to kill his daughter.
2. Human Trafficking
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/about/slavery/
3. Women the burn themselves in Afghanistan and Iraq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/afghan-women-burn- themsel_n_360859.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-01-03/news/they-burn-themselves/
- Many woman in the Afghanistan-Iraqi area are abused by their family. Husbands, father-in-laws, and mother-in-laws are the top abuser in a family. Some women put up with their miserable life, but some would rather just die, so they light themselves, but the bitter-sweet fact is, most women don’t die, most just suffer with up to 3rd degree burns or worse. There is a whole hospital in these areas of burn victims.
4. China Orphanages
http://pangaea.org/street_children/asia/china.htm
- Forced Abortion, One Child Policy, Overpopulation, are all problems within the China borders. One Child Policy is a law that allows each family to have only one child because of how overpopulated the country is, and most people want their family name to be carried on, so they want to bore males, no one wants the girls. An effect of this is huge orphanages and tons of them. They are stuffed with girls of all ages, all unwanted to their families.
5. World Hunger
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty
6. World Poverty
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty
7. Pink Saris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7068875.stm
8. Haiti vs. Pakistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan-flood
9. African migrants drown on their way to Yemen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12108715
10. Mexican Drug Scandal
1)*Mexico's obesity rates*
ReplyDelete-obesity has become a big issue in mexico over the last three years the obesity rate has tripled. The Mexican government launched a campaign last year urging people to exercise, drink more water, and eat fruits and vegetables. President Felipe Calderón said that "since 1980, the percentage of overweight or obese Mexicans has tripled."The problem starts early: 4.5 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 are already overweight. Many school districts have banned junk food in their facilities, but it's readily available right outside, much to the chagrin of parents.
2)Eurozone inflation
-Eurozone inflation rose in June to its highest since 1999. Prices were 4 per cent higher in June than a year earlier, twice as high as the ECB's inflation target, according to preliminary estimates, the European Union's statistical office. oil prices hit a fresh record of $143.67 a barrel and commodities recorded their largest first-half-of-the-year price jump for at least half a century.
3)Afghanistan abusive arranged marriages
4)Afghanistan scavengers
5)One child rule in China
6)Animal abuse in France and Denmark
7)African Health Care
-The hospitals in africa are providing medical services for peanuts. The hospital use the peanuts to make peanut butter,to feed the patients, and for other necessities. when the inflation rate rose in 2008, a lot of the Zimbabweans life savings was gone. Sine most Africans grow food the hospital accepts the food and in return gives medical help.
8)Vaccine helps Africa of raging illness
9)Human trafficking
10)Death toll rises in Iran
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ReplyDelete1. Dead birds in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and Sweden
ReplyDeletea. Throughout the past month dead birds have dropped out of the sky dead in America and Sweden. The cause of these mass deaths is not known, although several theories about firework or weather are suspected. In Sweden the birds appear to have be hit by a blunt object.
2. Violence against women
3. Armed Rebel Movements: the problem of widespread insurgents
a. All over the world countries are being plagued with armed insurgents. There are the Maoists in India, The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and more in Africa. These groups wreck havoc in the countries they are stationed.
4. ***Conflicts over water***
a. Countries all over the world are either trying to find more water for themselves, or trying conserve water/ help other countries to conserve water. Countries are building dams in river to increase their supply. Various countries are trying to use different irrigation systems to conserve water. Some have even stopped importing flowers from countries who do not have a lot of water.
5. Human trafficking
6. Flooding in Australia, crocodiles and snakes swimming in waters
7. Haiti today, a year after the flooding
8. UN bailing out smaller countries
9. Struggling economies in the world
10. Going green movement
World Issues:
ReplyDelete1) Floods taking over Australia: These floods are continuing to rise. A particular concern not only to the damage to houses, but to crops like fruit crops and cotton. Many Australians are in danger and government is planning for a way out.
2) Turkey frees 23 Suspected Militants
3)***Haiti (in general) coming back one year later- One year struggling back, Haiti is slowly making a comeback but with more than a million people still living in tents. Incredible stories are to be told of their struggle and with a positive outcome, there still might be hope.
4) Peace hovering in Sudan but most Soldiers stay armed
5) Iran invites specifics for nuclear tour
6) Africans drown trying to reach to reach Yemen on Rough Seas
7) Pakistani President killed
8) HIV Aids in Africa
9) Contaminated water
10) Japan and South Korea becoming friends: The signing of the two countries will make their military forces both much stronger. The joining of the two forces has it’s up’s and downs but the outcome has the ability to be very strong.
1. Pakistan flood
ReplyDeleteThe floods in Pakistan brought much destruction to the country, leaving many homeless and without good sanitation. After the Pakistan flood, poor relief efforts made by the government caused citizens to distrust their leaders even more.
**2. Forced abortions in China
Officials are using more extreme methods than ever to enforce the one child policy. If there is a woman pregnant with a second child, she will be forced to have an abortion. One woman was drugged and the baby was killed 8 months into the pregnancy.
3. Healthcare
The lack of good healthcare in third world countries leaves many without hope of receiving the essential medicines needed to prevent or treat diseases. Also, women doctors are limited in how much they can help, lowering the number of medics available.
4. Earthquake/tsunami/volcano in Indonesia
5. Human trafficking in India
6. Honor killings
7. Debt in third world countries
8. Haiti earthquake aftermath
9. Refugees in Africa
10. Persons with disabilities
10 Things:
ReplyDelete1.Global warming
2.Poverty
3.Malaria
a.Malaria is a disease that is spread by mosquitoes that can be fatal. In the world, 350- 500 million people die a year from this disease and cause huge population decreases.
4.Global financial crisis (Latin America, Asia, Africa)
5.Global energy crisis (India, China) -- how they are going to affect other countries
a.China is a major power in the World. Since China is starting to lack in oil and running out of resources to distribute energy, ruffles are spreading through the world.
6.Global Obesity
7.Update on the hurricane in Haiti
8.Landfills (trash) in the world
9.**Malnutrition
a.Malnutrition is caused from the lack of proper supplements of nutrition and can lead to death. People, mainly in Africa, worldwide are affected by this disease and 3.7 billion people die from it annually.
10.Flood in Taiwan
List of Global Issues:
ReplyDelete1.Clean water in Africa
2.Human trafficking
****3.Aids/ HIV in Africa- Aids and HIV have always been a major issue in Africa. Africa lacks the money to pay for treatments of the disease. They are also lacking the protection from aids and HIV to prevent it. While there are a lot more funds being provided to help people with the disease to live longer lives, there are still so many people still suffering.
4.Malaria in Africa- Malaria is a big problem in Africa because they don’t have the money for drugs to help treat the disease. Another issue is the living environment, with the conditions that majority of the people in Africa are living in, they can’t avoid the mosquitoes.
5.Starvation in Asia
6.Population (abortion) in China- The population of China has been an issue for a long time. But as the population continues to grow the measures that they are taking are becoming more extreme.
7.Women’s health in Asia
8.Racism
9.Abortion
10.Food prices rising—less food, because less money
1.World food prices at all time high
ReplyDelete2.Uganda in yellow fever break out
3.Conflict on Korean peninsula
a.In North Korea, there is destitute poverty due to communist failure, while South Korea is prospering. Recently, the North Koreans shot missiles and sunk a South Korean naval vessel killing 46 sailors. The U.S. sent warships to South Korea to due training with them to put a threat on North Korea. Russia and China are both alliances to NK, while the U.S. and Japan are alliances to SK. If things get bad enough, it could lead to World War III.
4.Persecution of Christians in Middle East
5.Iran developing nuclear bomb capabilities
***6.Restarting Israeli/Palestinian peace process
a. After World War II, the U.S. and U.N. gave the Jews a land called Israel, which was Palestine’s land taken away with them. The borders have always been contested, and with an exquisite army and secret service no one can argue with the Isrealites. Hes Bula is a terrorist group from Palestine and is causing fighting and are shooting rockets towards Irael as we speak. Because Palestians are Muslim, they get a lot of support from bordering nations, and they are against the U.S. because we support Israel: the most prospering country in the Middle East.
7.Fair Trade
8.Global Warming effect on the planet
9.Acid Rain
10.Whales being hunted by other countries
11.Polio in Africa
a. A vaccine for polio was discovered in the U.S. more than 50 years ago, but polio is spreading in Angola and has crossed into the Democratic Republic of Congo, creating an international threat. Polio in one place creates a global threat and children are most at risk, because it is a highly contagious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause complete paralysis within hours.
12.Remains of communism (Venezuela, North Korea, China, Cuba)
13.Proper management of the world bank
Human trafficking
ReplyDelete***Infant mortality: Infant mortality could be either chosen (abortion) or could be due to diseases that are preventable, but it is mainly defined as the latter. A country where it is prevalent is Angola because there is not education about safe sex and nutrition among other issues. America is one of the countries with a lower rate of infant mortality because we are privileged to have education about these issues.
World food prices rising
Honor killings: Honor killings happen mainly among the Muslim religion and across the world, but they sometimes occur in the US also. They happen when a woman marries a man who the parents/family don't want her to marry (specifically a man of a different faith or ethnicity) and to "conserve their honor," they kill the daughter where she will not bring shame to the family.
Women's rights
Australian floods
Birds falling from the sky
HIV/AIDS: There is no cure for HIV/AIDS, which is a main problem, but it can be prevented by education of safe sex or abstinence. It is mostly prevalent in Africa, and will eventually lead to death. Hundreds of US teens are also diagnosed with it each year.
Hunger
Measles
Illiteracy
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ReplyDelete1. Obesity in Mexico
ReplyDeleteThe percentage of obese people in Mexico has tripled since 1980, 69.5 %, the highest in the world, more than the United States. Clothes designers say sales in the sizes large and extra large have increased 50%.
2. Ivory Coast on the brink of genocide
The Ivory Coast is close to being in genocide because of the mass burials from murders in the area. Houses have been marked to indicate which tribe the family belongs to and the UN is in the country trying to maintain peace.
3. Australia Floods
4. Genocide in Darfur
5. Latin American countries line up behind Palestinian state
6. Us oppistion to Afghan war remains high
7. Iran claims it shot down western spy planes
***8. Afghan women speak out on abuse
There is now a tv series that feature Afghan women who are masked. They are speaking out about their forced marriages and how women are abused by Afghan men.
9. Iran stoning women to sue German journalists
10. Security tightened after Egypt church blast
1) Arms Trade: Arms Trade is a universal issue that can be both a present day problem and also a problem for the future. Arms Trade is when countries trade mechanical or nuclear weapons to other countries without fully understanding the consequences of failing to understand what these separate countries are using them for. This issue can affect future wars with advantages of both sides, one side knowing the secrets of the weapon and the other knowing the dangers of the weapons.
ReplyDelete2) Brazil Running Out of Engineers
3) ****Student Drop Out Rate in Kenya Despite Free Education: In Nairobi, Kenya, the government has made the primary education level free, causing the number of students to increase dramatically from five million to eight million. Because of this, the secondary school is now double the cost for girls, causing them to drop out before reaching this level. This is an issue because these girls without education are either pregnant or already mothers during their adolescent years, endangering the overpopulation.*****
4) Greece’s Financial Crisis
5) Genocide in Myanmar/ Burma
6) Iran’s Nuclear Issues: Countries are worrying on whether or not Iran is creating a new nuclear device. Although President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies these accusations stating that they created enrichment program 18 years ago, which outlawed nuclear weaponry. However, if Iran were to create a nuclear weapon, it would be created within 3 months.
7) Nigerian Violence in response to: ethnicity and economic issues
8) Environmental problems in Syria
9) Swaziland finds ways to cure HIV in orphans
10) Bangkok poverty issues
10 ideas for the Global Issue Research Paper:
ReplyDelete1. 1 child policy in China : Since implementation thirty years ago, China's one-child policy has been criticized both in and outside of the country, and its record is somewhat mixed. The government claims that the policy has prevented over 400 million births, but many also blame the policy for leaving China with one of the most imbalanced populations in the world: heavily male and quickly ageing .
2. Human trafficking on the borders of India
3. Abortions because of the strict 1 child policy in China
4. AIDS/HIV in Swaziland
5. Global Food Crisis in 2010 in Nigeria: So far the crisis has been driven by the slow and steady increase in defaults on mortgages and other loans. Today, about 90 percent of Nigeria's agricultural output comes from inefficient small farms, according to the World Bank, and most farmers have little or no access to fertilizers, irrigation or other modern inputs. Most do not even grow enough food to feed their own families.
6. Hunger/poverty – hunger problems relating to poverty :
7. Sweatshops/ child labor in Asia
8. FGM in Malawi – Female Genital Mutilation
9. Drug Addictions in Russia
10. ****Contaminated water usage in India : Sustainable water management in India is fast becoming a necessity, with the looming crisis over water resources in the country threatening the security and livelihood of the population and the environment over the coming decades. Growing population pressures and increased development have led to higher pollution, over-exploitation and a degradation of the natural environment.
Research Paper Topics:
ReplyDelete****1. Over 8 million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases, each year.
a. Many children around the world suffer from lack of nutrition (malnutrition) on a daily basis. They are either not getting enough food/drink or they are not getting clean food/drink. Children are also dying from preventable diseases, where they would only need a vaccine and proper care to survive. This issue is most prevalent in Africa.
2. AIDS/HIV has spread rapidly. There are 33.4 million people living with HIV worldwide: 31.3 million adults, 15.7 million women, 2.1 million children under 15.
3. Malaria causes some 243 million acute illnesses and 863,000 deaths, annually.
a. Malaria is a huge killer in most African countries. Since Malaria is carried through mosquitoes, all the children need are the proper equipment/attire to repel and keep the annoying pests away. Many children die every year from Malaria, an easily preventable disease.
4. Impure water in poverty-stricken countries
5. Radical Islam
6. Conflicts in Africa: violence, the Darfur Conflict (an ongoing guerilla conflict or civil war centered on the Darfur region of Sudan; began February 2003)
7. World Hunger (causes of hunger are related to poverty), population and feeding the World
8. Child Labor
9. Climate Change and Global Warming
10. Drug Trafficking
a. Mexican massacre- over 70 people massacred.
b. Mexico has been a major producer of drugs such as cannabis and methamphetamine, for the past few decades. Now they are illegally sending the drugs into the United States to sell them. This issue has grown out of control; the Mexican and American governments can no longer have complete control over the issue or the people involved in the issue.
Human trafficking
ReplyDelete-illegal sale of people into slavery worldwide.
Floods- pakistan, austraillia
Gasoline shortages
World economy
AIDS
**Genocide- Rwanda , Darfur**
-almost 20 years ago entire religious groups were completely erased from the earth in less than a year. many of the ones left behind or that managed to survive are still struggling to get back on their feet.
Child Warriors
-children are kidnapped and then used as soldiers in many territory wars. some have to fight their own families.
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ReplyDeleteResearch Paper Topics
ReplyDelete***1. genocide in DaRfur
The government of Darfur is extremely repressive. Over the past five years, over 400,000 Darfurian civilians have been killed. People are calling the genocide in Darfur the humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. Recently, the leader of Darfur has been trying to resolve the problem.
2. aids in africa
3.global warming
4. war in iraq
5.nuclear weapons in North Korea
6.flooding in Australia
7. earthquake recovery in Haiti
8.Irish financial crisis
Ireland has fallen into a recession for the first time since the 80s. The unemployment rate has greatly increased and people are taking advantage of the unemployment benefit. The country is now in debt and the government is working on solutions.
9.human trafficking
10. floods in Pakistan
11. birds falling from the sky/ fish dying in USA and Sweden
More than 3,000 birds have fallen dead out of the sky in recent days. It began in Arkansas on new years eve. People believe that it is because of the fireworks. Large amounts of birds have fallen dead in Sweden as well.
1. The one child policy in China.
ReplyDelete2. North/South Korea bombing
3. Women across the world are beginning to accept obesity. Especially in Mexico, where after many requests, .
4. The Australian flood
5. Economic downfall in other countries because of the US.
6. Ivory Coast on the "brink of genocide"
7. Poverty stricken Afghanis from the war.
8. Anorexia is an eating disorder that affects people all over the world. It seems to be incurable, and a French model recently died from it. I need to do more research to see how countries are attempting to fix this problem.
9. Water shortages/contamination
10. ****Premature birth is a nightmare for all pregnant women. There are over 11 million babies born premature in Africa and Asia alone. These countries are poverty stricken; if complications do occur during pregnancy, it is likely that the women will not have enough money to get help. These women need help to keep their babies alive while in the womb and for the beginning of their lives.
Global Issues
ReplyDelete1.- Global food prices hit record high
2.- China has said it will cut exports of rare earth minerals by 10% in 2011.
3.- African child scavenges trash for family's survival
4.- Brazil's first female president was sworn in Saturday, it is the first time that the presidential sash hangs over the shoulders of a woman.
5.- Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to more than 3,000.
6.- Mexico's other enemy: Obesity rates triple in last 3 decades
7.- Southern Sudan is scheduled to start voting on January 9 on whether to become an independent country or remain part of Sudan, Africa's largest nation which has been wracked by decades of conflict.
8.- More than 58,000 evacuated in southwest China due to icy and rain weather
9.- More than 1,000 German poultry farms shut in tainted egg scandal
10.- Northern Ireland water crisis effectively over
5.-Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to more than 3,000.
In the 10 weeks since cholera suddenly happened in Haiti, it has killed more than 3,000 people. The reason why it influences on such a wider scales, mostly is because of the poor hygienic conditions of Haiti and the incorrect way to deal with the corpses. Without question, this brutal disaster hit this country which still not recover from the earthquake and hinder the step of development.
9.-More than 1,000 German poultry farms shut in tainted egg scandal
More than 1000 German poultry farms closed and 3000 chicken had been killed because of the scandal that large numbers of eggs have been tainted with poisonous industrial residue. According to the report that many poisonous industrial residue including dioxin, which is used to companies making animal feed, had been sold. In order to protect the health of people, the Germany government retrieved the tainted eggs, closed more than 1000 farms and killed 3000 chicken.
1.-Global food prices hit record high
Global food prices hit a record high last month, even surpassing the levels of the crisis that happened in 2007-2008. The crisis of hunger happened in many countries such as Haiti and Bangladesh, it causes a lot of rebellions.
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ReplyDelete1. HIV/AIDS
2. Human Trafficking
3. World hunger vs. world poverty: World hunger and world poverty are directly related. As poverty increases, hunger increases also. If efforts are taken to improve the global economy, if is probable that world hunger would also decrease.
4. Global military spending
5. Drug cartels in Mexico: In the past four years, over 34,000 Mexicans have died do to drug related killings. Different anti-crime groups have been created to slow down the drug crime. Mexico was once a highly rated vacation spot, but the number of people who travel to Mexico has decreased due to the rise of gangs and drug activity.
6. ***Religious persecution: Christians from all over have been trying to reach people from Asian countries. Missionaries risk their lives by going inside these countries. Oftentimes, they face persecution and are forced to give their lives for their faith. I would be interested to see how these missionaries mask their purpose for coming to these countries and to study their techniques for spreading the gospel.
7. Haiti follow up
8. Islamic terrorist threats
9. Nuclear development
10. Impure water
1. health issues
ReplyDelete2. global warming
3. world military spending
4. obesity
5. racism
6. natural disasters and recovery
7. government
8. darfur- be current
9. child brides
10. forced abortion in china
Top 3 Choices
1. ***World Military Spending- For this topic I will look up different countries and research their military. The amount they spend a year and what they are spending it on will be my main focus.
2. Genocide in Darfur- Since this subject has been pushed aside lately because of more recent events I will find recent updates of Darfur’s government and their people.
3. Global Warming- I will look up how the earth is changing because of this. I will also find out how people are reacting to this around the world.
1. Human trafficking
ReplyDelete- Human trafficking is a major issue currently going on across the world because it is a type of human slavery. Women all over the world are being sold to be sex slaves unwillingly and undercover so their lives are stripped away from them and taken advantage of.
2. Eating disorders
- Eating disorders are currently making a huge impact on people due to low self-esteem and media. Women and men are doing whatever it takes to make themselves look the way the media is portraying how people should look, thin, but this obsession with perfection can get out of hand and has become a major problem overtaking peoples’ lives.
3. Global warming
- Global warming is one of the main issues currently going on; it is happening because of the gasses being released into the atmosphere are decreasing the ozone, thus making the temperature on the Earth get higher over time. The increase in temperature has made animals go endanger and there be a lack of plants. This is getting worse by the day and can be solved by using alternative fuels and conservation.
4. Genocide in Darfur
5. Earth quake in Haiti one year later
6. Mines caving in
7. Pakistan flood
8. Australian flood
9. Animal abuse
10. Rape
Global Issues Topics
ReplyDelete1. Afpak: Bombed Schools Feed Illiteracy, and Militancy
2. Egypt Church bombing
3. Sex Trade in China
4. The Student dropout rate in Kenya
5. Agriculture Battle in South Africa
6. HIV in Pakistan – Men in Pakistan are scared to tell their wives they have HIV. Men pretend they don’t want children or they work late to avoid sex. The HIV rate is going.
7. Flood disaster left in Gambia- In July, August, and September there were severe amounts of rainfall which brought about major floods. Lives were lost and crops destroyed.
8. Number of Women in Politics declining in Namibia
9. Plastic surgery in China - In 2009 A woman died on the operating table while receiving cosmetic surgery. The cosmetic industry rate was growing rapidly with over 2.2 million surgeries performed in 2009.
10. Diarrhea in Kenya
Kyoto Protocol is an agreement between 37 industrialized countries and Europe to reduce green house gas emissions. Over a five-year process, it is supposed to decrease the emissions by at least 5 percent. The Protocol commits the countries unlike the Convention which just encourages green ways,
ReplyDeleteChina, for the past 20 years, has been censoring established companies’ products. This action has manipulated the system so much that companies such as Wal-Mart, Google, and McDonalds have had to customize their merchandise to satisfy the government and avoid conflict. The question arises, “Does China have too much power.
Michelle Obama has created a global health program called Get Fit. This program was put into action when then obesity rate reached around 50 percent in 2009 and the government then became involved with its communities personal life. The goal is to decrease this percentage to 30 percent by 2015.
1. Human trafficking
2. Kyoto Protocol
3. 3rd world countries with nuclear power
4. Global HSN OGSM
5. Get Fit World Wide
6. Censorship in China
7. North Korea vs. South Korea Conflict
8. Abortion in China
9. Child Marriage in Asia
10. Floods in Pakistan
1. Floods in Australia
ReplyDelete2. Cholera in Haiti
3. Floods in Pakistan
**4. Smoking ban in Spain- Smoking is banned in all enclosed areas, playgrounds, schools, and outside hospitals. More than 40% of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 smoke
5. Genocide in Darfur
6. Foot and Mouth Disease in South Korea- foot and mouth disease was found in many dairy, pig, and beef farms. 85 people have gotten the disease
7. Aids/HIV in Africa
8. Clean water in Africa
9. Obesity in Mexico- 69.5% of Mexicans over the age of 15 are obese. In the last 30 years the percentage of obese people has tripled
10. Hunger in Children