CHINUCH BOOKLET FOR
HABONIM DROR
COMPILED BY LANA FESTER, 2003
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Children’s Health, Illness & Death
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Crisis in Africa:
Breastfeeding vs. baby formula
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The link between - Poverty, Hunger &
the
Enviro
nment
Sustainable Development:
For how long can we abuse our earth?
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Statistics on world Poverty
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Human Rights: What are they?
Who deserves them?
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Armed Conflicts in Africa: The hidden
Truth
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Quotes/songs
Children’s health, illness & death
FACTS AND FIGURES
Over five million children per year die from illnesses and other conditions caused by
the environments in which they live, learn and play.
Around two million children under five die every year from acute respiratory
infections, the largest killer of young children. These infections are aggravated by
environmental hazards such as indoor air pollution.
The second most common cause of child deaths is diarrhoea, estimated to be
responsible for 12 % of the child deaths under five years of age in developing
countries - and a total of 1.3 million deaths each year. Diarrhoea may result from a
variety of different causes. It is frequently a result of the child consuming pathogens
or toxins from dirty hands or through contaminated water or food.
Malaria kills approximately one million children per year, many of them
under five and most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Dengue haemorrhagic fever kills an estimated 10,000 children per year,
while Japanese encephalitis kills an estimated 8,000 children per year (90% of
whom are under five).
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The most common, and most serious vector borne diseases are transmitted by
mosquitoes that breed in water close to, or within, the home.
In developing countries, substances associated with poisoning include
pesticides, carbon monoxide (released from faulty stoves), or kerosene used as
household fuel.
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In the USA poisoning is the fifth leading cause of accidental death in
children under six years of age, principally from ingestion of drugs,
antidepressants, analgesics, and household products such as drain cleaners.
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Within the European Union poisoning accounts for two per cent of all injury
deaths in children.
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About 50,000 children, aged 0-14 years old, die every year as a result of
unintentional poisoning.
The leading causes of death from unintentional injury among children are
road traffic injuries (21% of such for this age group) and drowning (19%).
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The vast majority of unintentional injuries among children occurs in low
and middle-income countries: children in the African, South-East Asian and
Western Pacific regions account for 80% of all children’s deaths from
unintentional injuries.
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In 2001, an estimated 685,000 children under the age of 15 were killed by
unintentional injuries including those resulting from road traffic accidents, falls, burns
and cases of drownings. Worldwide approximately 20% of deaths due to such injuries
occur in children under 15 years old and they are among the ten leading causes of
death for this age group.
Breastfeeding’s Deadly Dilemma
Africa's AIDS Victims Pass On Disease to Infants
Its been done this way forever – no bottle, no formula, just bothers milk.
But with the AIDS epidemic ravaging Africa, breastfeeding mothers are passing pass the deadly
disease on to their infant children. And despite the risk of transmission, breastfeeding is still
commonplace.
Some of companies that make baby formula argue their products would put an end to the cycle
of infection.
But in rural Africa, the problem is not that simple.
Poor hygiene, bad water, and unsterilized bottles make formula-feeding much more dangerous
for the babies. The risk of contracting AIDS through breastfeeding is one in five. With formula
and other substitutes, there is a 50 percent chance of dying from diarrhea, dehydration and
gastrointestinal illnesses.
"It really is a dilemma for a woman who has to choose the risk of infecting her child or the risk
of giving her child gastro-enteritis and killing [the baby] that way," admits Dr. James McIntyre,
an AIDS researcher.
And until sanitation improves and AIDS education reduces the rate of infection, the numbers
are unlikely to improve.
Formula's Risks: Disease and Disgrace
"It's a tremendous dilemma," says Jesper Morch, a relief worker for UNICEF, the United Nations
children's agency. UNICEF has found itself at odds with formula makers over the issue.
"We seem to be forced back into a discussion … with the baby formula industry about whether
one thing is better than the other. We are saying that is not the key issue," Morch insists.
The cost, he says, is prohibitive, and there remains a social stigma over formula feeding.
"In South Africa, there is a lot of discrimination," says a mother with AIDS named Charlotte.
"People kill us because we have AIDS."
Because formula feeding is one way to identify a mother with AIDS, mothers resist using it, or
try to use it in secret.
And so breastfeeding, despite the risks, continues
Argument FOR Breast Feeding
One and a half million newborn babies die every year from the wrong kind of feeding.
Despite the risks, and an international code designed to stamp out abusive commercial
practices, the dried-milk companies continue to use their powers of persuasion to get women
to give up breast-feeding and buy their products. Particularly in the third world, where this is
frequently an issue of life and death. Over the past 30 years, breast-feeding has continued to
decline: today less than half of all third-world women (44%) breast-feed their babies. At
world level, the percentage is even lower, about one third.
Until the mid- twentieth century, choices were limited: most infants were fed either breast
milk or a "formula" prepared from evaporated cow milk. Today, parents (and pediatricians)
are inundated with advertisement from formula companies, touting their products as "closest
to mother's milk", "most digestible", "hypoallergenic", etc.
Companies related to protect breastfeeding
1.IBFAN
The International Baby-Food Action Network - consists of public interest groups working
around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality. IBFAN aims to
improve the health and well being of babies and young children, their mothers and their
families through the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant
feeding practices.
IBFAN also works to improve the safety of artificial feeds.
2.WHO
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health. WHO's
objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest
possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete
physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
WHO is governed by 192 Member States through the World Health Assembly. The Health
Assembly is composed of representatives from WHO's Member States. The main tasks of
the WHA are to approve the WHO program and the budget for the following biennium and
to decide major policy questions.
3.UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly
to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to
expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
Infant mortality in Africa –
Breastfeeding VS Formula - The Facts
 Non-breast fed infants are 6 times more likely to die of infectious
diseases than breastfed infants.
 Worldwide, more than 800,000 children under 14 contracted HIV
in 2001. According to the United Nations, 90 percent were infected
with HIV through pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding.
 Women constitute an estimated 58 percent of the 29.4 million
people infected with HIV in the sub Saharan African region and many
women may not even know if they are HIV positive.
 The region leads the world in mother-to-child transmission of
HIV.
 The per-capita income in sub-Saharan Africa was $407 in 2001,
according to the World Bank, meaning few mothers can afford
formula.
 Babyformula is expensive, hard to come by, and potentially lethal
for infants if mixed with contaminated water.
 A new mother who fails to put her baby to the breast may publicly
brand herself HIV positive, a stigma that may cut her off from
community support.
 UNICEF has estimated that in the last 20 years 1.7 million babies
may have contracted HIV from their mother's breastmilk, while, in the
same time, 30 million babies have died because they were not
breastfed.
 Breastfed infants are at much lesser risk of diarrhoearial disease,
respiratory infections and other illnesses and their mothers also
experience health advantages.
Nestlé’s argument FOR Baby Formula
Why is infant formula sold in developing countries ?
Infant formula is the only product recommended by the UN’s food standards
body as an appropriate substitute for breast-milk.
For working mothers in the developing world who can afford it, infant formula can be
a vital product, as the mothers are commonly obliged to return to work when their
baby is a few months old, and often forced to be away from their babies from
sunrise to sunset. This is also true for women who, for medical or other reasons,
cannot breastfeed, as well as the orphans of the over 600,000 women who annually
die in childbirth.
However, the vast majority of mothers in developing countries do not have the
means to buy infant formula and feed their babies inferior (and dangerous)
traditional substitutes for breast-milk, including whole cow’s milk, rice water and
corn starch and water. These are commonly used by both breastfeeding and nonbreastfeeding mothers
Does Nestle's promote Infant Formula to mothers in
developing countries?
In order to reach developing world mothers who do need infant formula, while not
promoting it to those who do not, Nestlé leaves the recommendation of appropriate
breast milk substitutes to health professionals and for almost 20 years has stopped
all promotion of infant formula to the public. This commitment to a ban on
promotional activities means: no advertising, no store promotions, no price
incentives, no ‘milk nurses’ and no educational materials mentioning infant formula.
ENVIRONMENT, POVERTY, HUNGER
Introduction - Linking the Environment and Poverty
Both environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are urgent global issues that
have a lot in common, but are often treated separately. This article explores some of
these linkages.
Both environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are urgent global issues that
have a lot in common, but are often treated separately. Consider the following.
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Human activities are resulting in mass species extinction rates higher
than ever before, currently approaching 1000 times the normal rate.
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Human-induced climate change is threatening an even bleaker
future.
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At the same time, the inequality of human societies is extreme.
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"Globally, the 20% of the world's people in the highest-income
countries account for 86% of total private consumption expenditures the poorest 20% a minuscule 1.3%".
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To highlight this inequality further, consider that approximately 1
billion people suffer from hunger and some 2 to 3.5 billion people have a
deficiency of vitamins and minerals.
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Yet, some 1.2 billion suffer from obesity.
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One billion people live on less than a dollar a day, the official
measure of poverty.
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However, half the world - nearly three billion people - lives on less
than two dollars a day.
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Yet just a few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the
world's poorest 2.5 billion people.
Issues about environment, economics and politics are inter-related through the way
humans interact with their surroundings and with each other.
There is often a mainstream belief that for poor countries to develop, environmental
concerns have to be sacrificed, or is a luxury to address once poverty is alleviated.
Therefore, the approaches to such issues require rethinking. The overloaded phrase
"sustainable development" must recognize the interconnectedness between human
beings and the environment if true environmental and social justice is to be obtained.
Final Quote: "We would need two additional planet Earths to produce resources
and absorb wastes ... and good planets are hard to find!"
The Impact of Poverty on the Environment
Poverty and third world debt has been shown to result in resource stripping just to
survive or pay off debts.
For example, Nepal and Bangladesh have suffered from various environmental
problems such as increasingly devastating floods, resulting from large-scale
deforestation. Forests around the world face increased pressures from timber
companies and agricultural businesses.
Some environmentalists, from rich nations especially, also raise concerns about
increasing populations placing excessive burdens on the world's resources as the
current major source of environmental problems.
This makes for a worrying situation for third world development and poverty
alleviation. However, an environment-only approach risks 'blaming the victims'. While
humans are largely responsible for many problems of the planet today, not all
humans have the same impact on the environment.
It is important to consider, for example, that the consumption of just the worlds
wealthiest fifth of humanity is so much more than the rest of the world.
Link between Economics, Hunger & Poverty
To understand why people go hungry you must stop thinking about food as
something farmers grow for others to eat, and begin thinking about it as something
companies produce for other people to buy.
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Food is a commodity. ...
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Much of the best agricultural land in the world is used to grow
commodities such as cotton, sisal, tea, tobacco, sugar cane, and cocoa,
items which are non-food products or are marginally nutritious, but for
which there is a large market.
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Millions of acres of potentially productive farmland is used to
pasture cattle, an extremely inefficient use of land, water and energy,
but one for which there is a market in wealthy countries.
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More than half the grain grown in the United States (requiring half
the water used in the U.S.) is fed to livestock, grain that would feed far
more people than would the livestock to which it is fed. ...
The problem, of course, is that people who don't have enough money to buy food
(and more than one billion people earn less than $1.00 a day), simply don't count in
the food equation.
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In other words, if you don't have the money to buy food, no one is going to
grow it for you.
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Put yet another way, you would not expect The Gap to manufacture
clothes, Adidas to manufacture sneakers, or IBM to provide computers for those
people earning $1.00 a day or less; likewise, you would not expect ADM
("Supermarket to the World") [A large food processing company] to produce
food for them.
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What this means is that ending hunger requires doing away with poverty,
or, at the very least, ensuring that people have enough money or the means to
acquire it, to buy, and hence create a market demand for food."
Sustainable Development
What is Sustainable Development?
“Development that meets the needs of present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs"
Understanding of sustainable development as encompassing a number of
areas, highlights sustainability as the idea of environmental, economic
and social progress and equity, all within the limits of the world's natural
resources.
Little Progress So Far
However, the move towards sustainability so far appears to have been
quite poor.
Though we might not always hear about it, sustainable development is
an urgent issue, and has been for many years.
For example, there are
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1.3 billion people without access to clean water;
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about half of humanity lacking access to adequate sanitation
and living on less than 2 dollars a day;
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approximately 2 billion without access to electricity;
The inequality of consumption (and therefore, use of resources, which
affects the environment) is terribly skewed:
"20% of the world's people in the highest-income countries account for
86% of total private consumption expenditures - the poorest 20% a
minuscule 1.3%" according to the 1998 United Nations Human
Development Report.
Can it work? Who needs to be involved?
In many countries - rich and poor – there is often a perception that
sustainability is expensive to implement and ultimately a brake on
development. Poor countries for their part usually lack the physical
infrastructure, ideas and human capacity to integrate sustainability into
their development planning. Besides, they are often quite skeptical about
rich countries' real commitment to sustainable development and demand
a more
equitable sharing of environmental costs and responsibilities. Many
people also believe that environmental problems can wait until
developing countries are richer.
Focus: Technological or Political?
More focus is needed on developing technologies that are "environment
friendly". Advances in such technologies would have a profound impact
on all manner of society. Yet, achieving sustainable development seems
primarily a political task not a technological one, though technology may
be one of the many factors that could play an important part in moving
towards more sustainable development. Without the political will to
overcome special interests, it will prove difficult and those without voices
to be heard, such as the poor that make up the majority of the planet,
would be impacted the most.
POVERTY FACTS &
STATISTICS
Half the world -- nearly three billion people –
live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's countries) is
less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined.
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or
sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons
was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet
it didn't happen.
51 percent of the world's 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.
The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of
any industrialized nation.
The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from
people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money.
20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the worlds goods.
The top fifth of the world's people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding
export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment -- the bottom fifth, barely more than
1%.
In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the
poorest 20% -- in 1997, 74 times as much.
"The lives of 1.7 million children will be needlessly lost
this year [2000] because world governments have failed to
reduce poverty levels"
The developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.
A few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the
world's poorest 2.5 billion people.
"The combined wealth of the world's 200 richest people hit $1 trillion in 1999; the combined
incomes of the 582 million people living in the 43 least developed countries is $146 billion."
"Of all human rights failures today, those in economic and social areas affect by far the
larger number and are the most widespread across the world's nations and large
numbers of people."
"Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically
undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific"
"7 Million children die each year as a result of the debt
crisis. 8525038 children have died since the start of the year
2000 [as of March 24, 2001]."
For economic growth and almost all of the other indicators, the last 20 years [of the current form of
globalization, from 1980 - 2000] have shown a very clear decline in progress as compared with the
previous two decades [1960 - 1980]. For each indicator, countries were divided into five roughly equal
groups, according to what level the countries had achieved by the start of the period (1960 or 1980).
Among the findings:
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Growth: The fall in economic growth rates was most pronounced and across the board
for all groups or countries.
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Life Expectancy: Progress in life expectancy was also reduced for 4 out of the 5 groups of
countries, with the exception of the highest group (life expectancy 69-76 years).
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Infant and Child Mortality: Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably
slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.
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Education and literacy: Progress in education also slowed during the period of
globalization.
"Today, across the world, 1.3 billion people live on less than one dollar a day; 3 billion
live on under two dollars a day; 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion
have no access to sanitation; 2 billion have no access to electricity."
The richest 50 million people in Europe and North America have the same income as
2.7 billion poor people. "The slice of the cake taken by 1% is the same size as that
handed to the poorest 57%."
The world's 497 billionaires in 2001 registered a combined
wealth of $1.54 trillion, well over the combined gross national
products of all the nations of sub-Saharan Africa ($929.3
billion) or those of the oil-rich regions of the Middle East
and North Africa ($1.34 trillion). It is also greater than the
combined incomes of the poorest half of humanity.
A mere 12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water,
and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.
HUMAN RIGHTS
HUMAN RIGHTS
"The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the
individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone.
It is only through the pursuit of practical and effective efforts to
promote human rights that we show our real commitment to the
welfare of individuals and society." Alexander Downer.
The term "human rights" covers the series of often unlike rights and freedoms
asserted by many to be universally accepted and essential prerequisites for peoples'
enjoyment of a life based on the centrality of human dignity.
Proponents of human rights regard them as being inherent, inalienable and universal.
Inherent in the sense that they are the birthright of all human beings, in that people
enjoy these rights simply by reason of their humanity and, as such, they do not have
to be granted or bestowed by a Sovereign for them to be enjoyed;
Inalienable, in the sense that people cannot agree to give them up or have them
taken away from them; and
Universal in that they do not just apply to "men", or "citizens" or "ethnic minorities",
but to all persons, regardless of their nationality, status, sex or race.
For more info – see:
www.amnesty.org
CONFLICTS IN AFRICA
INTRODUCTION
Recent years have seen many regions of Africa involved in war and interal or external
conflict, from the seven or so countries directly involved in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) to the Sierra Leone crisis and the war in Ethiopia/Eritrea and the
various other civil wars.
There have been over 9.5 million refugees and hundreds and thousands of
people have been slaughtered. If this scale of destruction and fighting was
in Europe, then people would be calling it World War III with the entire world
rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation.
Yet here, as mentioned in the Media section of this web site, the western
mainstream media does practically nothing to raise this awareness
No less than 28 Sub-Saharan African states have been at war since 1980
Political corruption, lack of respect for rule of law, human rights violations are all
common reasons heard for some of the causes of Africa's problems. Although, not the
only reasons, some often overlooked root causes also include:
the artificial boundaries created by colonial rulers as they ruled and finally left
Africa. The effect of this was to put many different ethnic people within a nation
that did not reflect, or have the ability to accommodate or provide for, the
cultural and ethnic diversity. The freedom from imperial powers is not a smooth
transition. It also comes with the natural struggle to rebuild.
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the poverty of Sub-Saharan Africa and the immense burden of debt. This, when
combined with international trade and economic arrangements that do little to benefit
the African people, further exacerbates the problem.
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limited rights to land
the support of various regimes and dictatorships by countries such as the
USA and former Soviet Union in their Cold War, with disregard to how it has
affected the people of these countries.
 the proliferation of small arms in the region when the cold war ended, which
has helped fuel many conflicts.
 corporate interests and activities in Africa
 easy access to natural resources to maintain and fuel rebellions (combined
with corporate interests, this makes for a nasty combination)
a lack of support for basic rights in the region, plus a lack of supporting
institutions, as well as the international community's political will to do
something about it and help towards building peace and stability.
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There have recently been numerous civil wars and conflicts going in Africa, some of
which are still going on, including
Angola
Angola, which has seen an estimated 500,000 people killed since 1989 and an
estimated 3 million refugees. It is also being torn apart due to resources such as
diamonds and offshore oil, with various factions fighting for these prizes, supported
by multinational corporations and other governments.
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has seen serious and grotesque human rights violations since 1991
when the civil war erupted. According to Human Rights Watch, over 50,000
people have been killed to date, with over one million people having been
displaced.
While the rebel force, the Revolutionary United Front, (RUF) have called the various
governments corrupt and accused them of mismanagement of diamond and mineral
resources, they themselves have committed horrendous abuses. People have been
raped, had limbs amputated and more. While the RUF may have started from
respectable aims, they themselves have been corrupted and attracted others who see
the RUF as a way to get at the diamonds and profit from it.
Both sides have also used a large number of child soldiers. For example, the UN
estimates that of those fighting with Sierra Leone government forces, a quarter are
children below the age of 18.
Despite any peace agreements, Human Rights Watch reported that abuses were still
continuing towards the end of 1999.
A diamond-mining ban was announced in Sierra Leone, from 18th July 2001, hoping
this might help address the violence, although many are skeptical.
Isn't it ironic that Sierra Leone is the poorest country in the world, while it has a rich
set of natural resources and minerals, including diamonds, which have caused entire
countries and corporations to get involved to fight over them?
Nigeria
The Niger Delta in Nigeria has been the attention of environmentalists, human rights
activists and fair trade advocates around the world.
The activities of large oil corporations such as Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Elf, Agip etc
have raised many concerns and criticisms.
Oil, which could potentially have allowed Nigeria to be one of the wealthiest countries
in Africa has instead led it to become one of the poorest.
According to Human Rights Watch, "multinational oil companies are complicit in
abuses committed by the Nigerian military and police."
Criticisms abound about the way the oil companies have neglected the surrounding
environment and health of the local communities. The Niger Delta is the richest area
of biodiversity in Nigeria, but regular oil spills that are not cleaned up, blatant
dumping of industrial waste and promises of development projects which are not
followed through with, have all added to the increasing environmental and health
problems.
Democratic Republic of CONGO
 Described by some as Africa's first World War, the conflict in the DRC
(formerly known as Zaire) has involved seven nations.
 There have been a number of complex reasons, including conflicts over
basic resources such as water, access and control over rich minerals and
other resources as well as various political agendas.
 This has been fueled and supported by various national and international
corporations and other regimes which have an interest in the outcome of the
conflict.
 There have been 2.5 million deaths since the outbreak of the fighting in
August 1998 -- usually far more than enough to get media attention the world
over.
QUOTES
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"Live life simply so that others may simply live" -- Gandhi
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"I destroy my enemy by making him my friend" -- Abraham Lincoln
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"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed" --
Mahatma Gandhi
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"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- Mahatma Gandhi
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"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the
opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to
formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."
-- C. Wright Mills
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men - true nobility is being
superior to your former self." -- Anon
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." -- Albert Einstein
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"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed
him for a lifetime." -- Old Chinese Saying
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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no
food, they call me a communist." -- Dom Helda Camara
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"If I had 6 hours to cut down a tree, I would spend 4 hours sharpening my axe!" -- Old
Chinese Martial Arts Master!
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"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -- Albert
Einstein
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"Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles." -- Dr. Robert H Schuller
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently
opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
WHERE IS THE LOVE
BY BLACK EYED PEAS
What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate,
yeah
Badness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how a n**** works and operates
N**, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love
It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'
in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them
dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love) x2
Where is the love
The love, the love
I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' our own direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love
WITH MY OWN 2 HANDS
Ben Harper
Now I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make it a better place
With my own two hands
Make it a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
Now I could make peace on earth
With my own two hands
And I could clean up the earth
With my own two hands
And I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a brighter place
With my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a safer place
With my own two hands
I'm gonna help Jah human race
With my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
Now I could hold you
With my own two hands
And I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you got to, got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own, use your own two hands X 2
Oh, you got to use your own two hands
With our own, with our own two hands X 3