Ten Global Issues 2013

1. Ten Global Issues 2013 • What are the global issues that the nations and people of this world deal with today? • How do people struggle to have a good quality of life? • Brainstorm issues • Solo • Partners

2. Ten Global Issues 2013 Water/Sanitation Food/Hunger Transportation Health/Diseases Economy Education Energy/Climate Shelter War Waste/Garbage

3. 15 would be overweight 75 would have some supply of food and shelter 25 would not have any food or shelter 1 would be dying of starvation 17 would be undernourished

4. 83 would have access to safe drinking water • 17 people would have no clean, safe water to drink

5. 100 People: A World Portrait 10 Global Issues: • Water/Sanitation • Food/Hunger • Transportation • Health/Diseases • Economy • Education • Energy/Climate • Shelter • War • Waste/Garbage http://www.100people.org/onehundred_lens.php?section=100people ..\100_People_Curriculum-Global_Issues.pdf

6. My Top 3 Global Issues: • Why each of these three issues is important to me. • Experiences in my life that are connected with this issue • How might this issue be important to others in the world who are different than me? Explain

7. United Nations

8. UN General Assembly • The United Nations Headquarters is in New York City but the land and buildings are international territory. • The United Nations has its own flag, post office and postage stamps. • Six official languages are used at the United Nations – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. • The UN European Headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland. • The senior officer of the United Nations Secretariat is the Secretary-General

9. The United Nations today • There are currently 192 Members of the United Nations.

10. UN Powers • None of the decisions taken by the Assembly are binding. Nevertheless, the Assembly's decisions become resolutions that carry the weight of world governmental opinion. • Each country, large or small, rich or poor, has a single vote.,

11. TheAims of the United Nations • Keep peace throughout the world • Develop friendly relations between nations • Work together to help people live better lives • Eliminate poverty, disease and illiteracy in the world • Stop environmental destruction • Encourage respect for each other's rights and freedoms • To be a center for helping nations achieve these aims

12. Principles of the United Nations • Member States have equality • All Member States must obey the Charter • Countries must try to settle their differences by peaceful means • Countries must avoid using force or threatening to use force • The UN may not interfere in the domestic affairs of any country • Countries should try to assist the United Nations

13. MDGs

14. What areMillennium Development Goals? • The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are international targets for reducing global poverty. • By the year 2015 these goals, if they are reached, will have lifted around 500 million people out of poverty.

15. Background: MDGs 2000 • In the year 2000, the member countries of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration. • This document outlines the189 countries’ commitment to the UN’s principle of working towards a more just, peaceful and equal world.

16. The MDGs are a set of achievable targets, and they are central to this process. • By signing up to these goals, governments of both developing and industrialized countries have committed themselves to working collaboratively towards a better future for all.

17. What is Happening to MDGs now? • Progress on the goals will be measured each year, in order to help achieve them all by 2015. • For the first seven goals, the governments of developing countries must ensure that targets are being met.

18. 2015 Is Less than 2 Years Away… • At the current rate of progress, many of the targets will be missed. It is therefore vital • that pressure is stepped up on the • global community to increase efforts • to achieve them

19. More about the MDGs • Goal 1: End extreme poverty and hunger - Reduce the number of people living on less than $1 a day by half and reduce the number of people suffering from hunger by half. • Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education - Make sure that every boy and girl in the world can complete elementary school. • Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women - Work to make sure that girls can go to school and that women have the opportunity to make choices in their lives. • Goal 4: Reduce child mortality - Reduce the number of deaths of young children by two-thirds. • Goal 5: Improve maternal health - Improve the health of mothers before and just after their babies are born and reduce the number of maternal deaths by three-quarters. • Goal 6: Combat malaria, and other diseases - Fight diseases like cholera and malaria that can be prevented and treated. • Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability - Make sure that the environment is protected for people now and in the future. Reduce by halfthe number of people without clean drinking water and sanitation. • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development- Help to create better, fairer business and trade opportunities that reduce poverty and help young people find employment.

20. One UN Organization:UNICEF • UNICEF is working to promote and protect children’s rights and their well-being. To reach the Millennium Development Goals, UNICEF is partnering with other UN agencies and global around the world. • UNICEF works to help: • Provide basic child health care, like vaccines. • Deliver fresh water and basic medical supplies in emergencies. • Promote early childhood learning and better access to childhood education. • Improve the quality of education.