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  • Water Shortages

    To drink a draft of water  Some people have to walk 10km every day across deserts under scotching heat. Children die from drinking muddy, polluted water. 4 in 10 in the world suffer shortage of water. 2 in 10 do not even have access to drinking water. Since 1970s, 24,000 people die each year from lack of water. The world population, which stood at 2.3 billion in 1940,  more than doubled to 5.3 billion in 50 year as of 1990. [...]

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  • Women and Children

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 says, All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. However… A woman in her 30s got arrested at a hotel in Southeast Asia for having a beer. She was sentenced to six lashes and a fine of $1,400 for consuming alcohol. Caning is a dreadful corporal punishment for men that tears apart skins and leaves scars on the skin. 13 women were arrested while having a meal at [...]

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  • Disease and Pollution

    AIDS, the infectious disease also called as the Black death of modern times, is extremely hard to cure and of very high mortality rate. The number of patient with AIDS is estimated to be around 40 million in about 170 countries and the number keeps rising. Each year Millions of people die in Asia and Africa because they did not receive treatment for AIDS. At least one in five people in Southern Africa are AIDS patient, and 1 in 4 [...]

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  • Climate change and Global warming

    The Arctic, January 2010 Strikingly, polar bears were spotted as hunting their own kind for food. In the Arctic where temperatures have gone down warming the region, polar bears, unable to hibernate or get any food, turn to monsters killing not only humans but also their own kind. They are drifting on the slices of ices and struggling for survival at the very front line of global warming. The Antarctic, July 2008 A satellite picture from European Space Agency(ESA) showed [...]

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  • International Conflicts

    The most dreadful form of disease is war that hardens people’s lives the most. What maintains peace is not mighty power. It can be attained only through understanding between each other. In war, the most despicable and corrupted people gain power and glory. Unless we have wars exterminated, we will be annihilated by them. Those who love to see wars breaking out are just like mean-spirited children. On September 11, 2001. 4 aircrafts were hijacked by Al-Qaeda, an armed Islamic [...]

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  • Poverty and the gap between the rich and the poor

    The richest 1% holds 40% of global wealth, 50% of poor people in the world share only 1% of global wealth 20% of world population consumes 80% of energy 80% of people are even waging a war to secure the remaining 20% of energy 2 billion people in the globe have no access to electricity While rich nations are fighting hard against obesity,  1 billion people suffer malnutrition and shortage of food 35 people a minute 50,000 people a day  [...]

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