Rights of Human !!!

I could not give more than a small portion of my sincere contribution to the less fortunate people because I share with them my heart soul and life too ...

Quotes

POOR POET

Almost nix 

Empty salver

Wind could feed no ravening man

Fall deep down

Path is darkening

As mind not spoken, 

Words were written 

But they are not giving repast

Forage no emptiness

Hollow remain the same.

MALAYA ROSES

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Food For Who ...???

Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.2 billion people in the world going hungry?

Poverty is EVERYWHERE ..!!!

 

Hunger and World poverty

Posted May 10th, 2011 | Poverty is Everywhere

Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.2 billion people in the world going hungry?

There is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 6.7 billion people. And yet, one in nearly seven people is going hungry. One in three children is underweight. Why does hunger exist? There are many reasons and factors that play into why famine occurs.

Nature 

Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms and long periods of drought are increasing in the world and these disasters are man-made.

One other major problem in day society is global warming. The earth is becoming warmer and sea level rise. Where there was fertile grasslands, there is now desert. It is impossible for all people to get out as much carbon dioxide as the richest people do.

Drought is now the single most common cause of food shortages in the world. A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region. Although droughts can persist for several years, even a short, intense drought can cause significant damage and harm the local economy. Lengthy periods of drought have long been a key trigger for mass migration and played a key role in a number of ongoing humanitarian crises. Here is a list of the most ongoing drought disasters in the world.

War From Asia to Africa to Latin America, fighting displaces millions of people from their homes, leading to some of the world’s worst hunger emergencies. Since 2003, conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan has uprooted more than a million people, precipitating a major food crisis, in an area that had generally enjoyed good rains and crops.

In war, food sometimes becomes a weapon. Soldiers will starve opponents into submission by seizing or destroying food and livestock and systematically wrecking local markets. Fields and water wells are often mined or contaminated, forcing farmers to abandon their land.

Poverty In developing countries, farmers often cannot afford seed to plant the crops that would provide for their families. Craftsmen lack the means to pay for the tools to ply their trade. Others have no land, water or education to lay the foundations for a secure future.

The poverty-stricken do not have enough money to buy or produce enough food for themselves and their families. In turn, they tend to be weaker and cannot produce enough to buy more food. In short, the poor are hungry and their hunger traps them in poverty.

Agricultural infrastructure In the long-term, improved agricultural output offers the quickest fix for poverty and hunger.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2004 Food Insecurity Report, all the countries that are on track to reach the first Millennium Development Goal have something in common — significantly better than average agricultural growth.

Yet too many developing countries lack key agricultural infrastructure, such as enough roads, warehouses and irrigation. The results are high transport costs, lack of storage facilities and unreliable water supplies. All conspire to limit agricultural yields and access to food.

But, although the majority of developing countries depend on agriculture, their governments economic planning often emphasizes urban development.

Over-exploitation of environment

Poor farming practices, deforestation, over cropping and overgrazing are exhausting the Earth’s fertility and spreading the roots of hunger. Increasingly, the world’s fertile farmland is under threat from erosion, salivation and desertification.

Distribution About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes and more than 800 million people are chronically undernourished, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Even though there is plenty of food in the world for everyone, the problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves.

Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty.

It is not necessarily required everyone to have the exactly the same. There is talk of justice. Every human being has the right to live safe with access to food, safe water and basic human needs.

A good example of injustice is the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. On one side of town you can find the slum areas, where the lives of people who barely can afford food and water, while on the other side of town you will find the houses of the wealthiest citizens, with well watered lawns.

I believe that people shouldn’t have to starve and struggle for survival. All should be able to live the life they want, without having to ask for much. I think people are willing to help but they need someone to organize them and take charge. We must begin to think more of others and do the best we can to help. Only one dollar a day for one year can make a big difference for a person in the third world.

Health AIDS is of course a major cause of hunger and poverty in Africa, but it is not the only one. AIDS and hunger are still a show context. AIDS made people gradually loose the ability to produce and buy the food they need, and many parents die before they can transfer the necessary information about food and health to the children. Hunger affects the immune system and weakens the body to the starving man. When they then in addition to AIDS, they have a small chance to survive. Medicines are not necessarily more expensive in developing countries, but because many Africans do not have money, they heal not afford the necessary medicines.

I believe that lack of knowledge is the greatest cause of hunger in Africa. Before any structure of Africa can start, Africans must first gain knowledge. It helps not only to erase the debt and bed Africans restart. There is no reason to send high-tech equipment to developing countries as long as no one knows how to use them. They must first get the knowledge to do this. Knowledge is the key. They must learn to produce finished products for export; instead of selling raw materials at half price, but that they will manage to do this we must be willing to help them. The leaders of the country must take immediate action and priority education of their countries population. Without education people will not be able to develop nor take care of themselves. There will not be jobs available and constant hunger and poverty will continue.

Here is a pic borrowed from google, showing the hunger around the world (click on the picture to get an larger image)

Written by

Hatef Mokhtar

Oslo,Norway

Unsung Miseries Among Poor Women

Thousands of Afghan girls and boys are trafficked into neighboring countries and sold into slavery each year. Though it is taboo, prostitution is alive and thriving - at the cost of those forced to work in it.

It is the oldest trade in the world and exists in probably every country in the world. Yet prostitution is not a dream job. Most female sex workers are forced to make a living through prostitution.

In conservative Afghanistan, prostitution is illegal. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Human trafficking is booming - young women are being sold and sent over to neighboring countries, mostly to Pakistan.

Heather Barr says the government has a number of other issues to tackle as well

Many people are unaware of just how many women are forced to work as prostitutes, according to Heather Barr of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division.

"HRW did a report that was released in March this year about women in prison for moral crimes. And one of the things that I found really surprising by doing those interviews, was how many women I met, had been forced in prostitution often by their husbands and in-laws."

Women sold as commodities

The reason, she explained, that women were forced into the sex trade by their families was due to poverty and drug addiction - usually of a husband or brother or both. The families often saw women as a source of money and take advantage of it.

Women from Pakistan are also been bought and sold to Afghanistan. Poor or practically non-existing security at the border means criminals smuggling and trafficking goods and people can easily get away with it. When the trafficked people arrive on the other side of the border, they are fully at the mercy of their pimps.

One woman from Pakistan who wished not to be named is now in Jalalabad - far away from her home in Karachi.

"We are poor and helpless. What are we supposed to do? We don't have anything to eat. That's why the "big man" brought us here from Karachi. No one likes doing this work, but I don't have any other choice," she told DW.

The young woman speaks neither of Afghanistan's official languages - Dari and Pashtu. She said she didn't know who to turn to and was afraid of the consequences she would face should she run away and the authority of her pimp, the "big man," as she called him. But he himself also cited poverty as a reason to force women into prostitution.

Sahar Gul, 15 years old, was tortured for months by her in-laws for refusing to prostitute herself

"I do this because I am poor and I want to be able to feed my children. I am aware that there are dangerous consequences, harsh punishments for this kind of work - for instance death or being ostracized and other things."

But he insisted he did not force anyone to work - that the women who work for him prostituted themselves because they wanted to.

Prostitution, whether out of one's own will or not, is illegal according to Islamic law. The cleric Nek Mohammad works for the court in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar and offers consultations on Islamic law. All forms of position are illegal, he told DW.

"At least four people have to bear witness to the crime. And should the prostitute or the person who buys her be married, his or her spouse will have to be stoned. If there are no married people involved, then they receive lashings."

Disease

But punishment is not the only thing to worry about. Most of the prostitutes are unaware of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as HIV and do not use condoms. The number of cases of STDs had sharply risen in the past few months, according to Dr. Baz Mohammad Sherzad, head of Nangarhar province's health ministry.

Prostitutes pose as beggars on the streets of Afghanistan

"Our doctors confirm that many young men who have come to us recently have had urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. If prostitution is allowed then it is no wonder there is an increase in such problems in Nangarhar."

Nonetheless, doctors should promote educational campaigns, said Sherzad. The government should tackle the problem. Yet the government had a whole set of other problems: "Think about child marriage, forced marriage, domestic violence, the sale of women for marriage and other purposes, forced prostitution, self immolation - honestly the government hasn't been dealing very effectively with any of those issues," said Heather Barr.

She said it was unfortunate that there was a lack of political will to solve these issues. Progress was only made very slow.

As of recently, it is now illegal to lock up women for running away from home, which is just a further symptom of the violence and forced prostitution women continue to face in Afghanistan.

Unsung Miseries Among Poor Women