Wednesday, December 23, 2009

UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling 

Human trafficking is the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.
Smuggling migrants involves the procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident.

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Virtually every country in the world is affected by these crimes. The challenge for all countries, rich and poor, is to target the criminals who exploit desperate people and to protect and assist victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants, many of whom endure unimaginable hardships in their bid for a better life.
As the only United Nations entity focusing on the criminal justice element of these crimes, the work that UNODC does to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants is underpinned by the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols on trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling.
Denmark is a big shame
The sea is stained in red and in the mean while its not because of the climate effects of nature.



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It's because of the cruelty that the human beings (civilised human) kill hundreds of the famous and intelligent Calderon dolphins.



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This happens every year in Feroe iland in Denmark. In this slaughter the main participants are young teens.
WHY?
To show that they are adults and mature.... BULLLLsh

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In this big celebration, nothing is missing for the fun. Everyone is participating in one way or the other, killing or looking at the cruelty “supporting like a spectator”


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Is it necessary to mention that the dolphin calderon, like all the other species of dolphins, it’s near instinction and they get near men to play and interact. In a way of PURE friendship

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They don’t die instantly; they are cut 1, 2 or 3 times with thick hocks. And at that time the dolphins produce a grim extremely compatible with the cry of a new born child.


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But he suffers and there’s no compassion till this sweet being slowly dies in its own blood
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Are we human ?

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The map below shows the world hunger problem by showing the prevalence of undernourishment in each country. Prevalence of undernourishment is measured by the share of a country's total population that is undernourished. The higher the prevalence, the more widespread the problem. To help analyse and monitor progress, five prevalence categroies have been established and are shown:



This picture is Graphic but real. A starving Child being stalked by a Vulture. This picture was taken by Kevin Carter. Is it this Childs fault that she has no food. She never wanted this, but her fate is near.
  • AP/Google.com reports that "Asia and the Pacific has the largest number of hungry people - 642 million, up 10.5 percent from last year. Sub-Saharan Africa registers 265 million undernourished, an 11.8 percent increase. Even in the developed world, undernourishment is a growing concern, with 15 million in all and a 15.4 percent increase, the sharpest rise around the world, FAO said" (AP/Google.com, 6/20).

  • For the first time, the number of chronically hungry people worldwide is greater than 1 billion, according to a recent U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization

  • The total number of hungry people is estimated to have reached 1.02 billion - an increase of 11 percent from last year's 915 million, according to the agency, which based its estimate on analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • The Philippine food insecurity Glossary: food insecurity Close A situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life. It may be caused by the unavailability of food, insufficient purchasing power, inappropriate distribution, or inadequate use of food at the household level. Food insecurity, poor conditions of health and sanitation, and inappropriate care and feeding practices are the major causes of poor nutritional status. Food insecurity may be chronic, seasonal or transitory. and vulnerability Glossary: vulnerabilityClose The presence of factors that place people at risk of becoming food insecure or malnourished, including those factors that affect their ability to cope. Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS) facilitated the identification of food insecure and vulnerable provinces, where the hungry and poor families are located. Results from the FIVIMS analysis show that 49 out of 77 provinces (63.6%) in the country are vulnerable to food insecurity in varying degrees. Only 13% (10 provinces) and 23.4% (18 provinces) were classified as Less Vulnerable and Not Vulnerable, respectively. The Philippines National Nutrition Council (NNC) in its role as oversight agency of the AHMP, recommended to the President and the Cabinet to target the 49 provinces ranked as highly vulnerable by FIVIMS for the AHMP. These 49 provinces are now the priority areas for AHMP implementation.

  • Every year 15 million children die of hunger

  • For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

  • Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF

  • 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

  • Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished

  • To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year

The grain required to fill a 25 US gallons (95 L) fuel tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year.

"If everyone in the world consumed like the average American, we'd need about six earths to sustain ourselves."

"To satisfy all the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only $13 billion, hardly as much as the people of the United States and the European Union spend each year on perfume". -- Ignacio Ramonet

"We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population.…In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.…To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives.…We should cease to talk about vague and… unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

We should recognize that our influence in the Far Eastern area in the coming period is going to be primarily military and economic. We should make a careful study to see what parts of the Pacific and Far Eastern world are absolutely vital to our security, and we should concentrate our policy on seeing to it that those areas remain in hands which we can control or rely on.— George Kennan,