GLOBAL ISSUES

How to make a better world

 Poverty
• Half the world, nearly 3 billion
people, live on less than $2 a day.
 Poverty
• According to UNICEF, about
30,000 children die each day due
to poverty.
 Poverty
• What can we do to stop famine?
 Human Rights - Racism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status.
 Environment
Global warming
• The warming of the climate will
lead to hurricanes and drought.
 Environment
Global warming
• Super storms.
• Longer spells of dry heat or intense
rain.
 Environment
Global warming
• The loss of ice in the Artic.
 Environment
Global warming
• Rising sea levels will also result as
the polar caps begin to melt.
 Health Issues

• One billion people lack access to

health care systems.
 Health Issues

• 11 million children, under the age of

five, die of malnutrition.
 AIDS
(Acquired Inmmunodeficiency Syndrome)

• Aids was first identified in the early 1980s, but 
the first case of the disease may have occurred 
much earlier ­ in Africa in the late 1950s.
• The most advanced stage of HIV infection is 
AIDS.
 AIDS
(Acquired Inmmunodeficiency Syndrome)

• It can take 10­15 years for an HIV­infected 
person to develop AIDS; antiretroviral 
drugs can slow down the process even 
further.
• Do you know how HIV is transmitted?