Genocide according to the UN is the intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Also, genocides have taken more lives than all wars combined. The right stages are: (1) classification- categorizing people in a society, (2) symbolization- giving symbols to certain groups, (3) dehumanization- people are viewed as animals, vermin, and disease, (4) organization- organized in groups often by government, (5) polarization- separating the groups. (6) preparation- victims are removed/ confiscated from their property, (7) extermination- the killing, and (8) denial- governments deny their action. Major genocides include the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda.

The civil rights movement was the movement to give African Americans equal rights. After the American Civil War, many Africans faced a new reality: no homes, no jobs, no rights, etc. Many Africans moved North to avoid racism and fled to industrial cities. Jim Grow laws were created- which gave Africans no rights. The law stated where to live, eat, go to school, sit on a bus, where to go to the bathroom, etc. After the wars, African descendants began to demand equal rights. Some examples of civil rights movements are: Emmett Hill, the Bus Boycott (when Rosa Parks decided to not give up her seat to a white person while on the bus), March on Washington (protest/celebration), and the Voting Rights Act (allowing any minority to vote).

18 million poor people die every year from extreme poverty.
More than 50,000 people die every day.
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age

Ways to solve world hunger:
Distribution
The majority of food is produced in economically more developed countries such as USA, but those countries that are really in need of their share of the food to solve their hunger problems, cannot afford the high prices that these farmers charge and can get from other richer countries.
How to solve: encourage national governments and state departments to subsidize the purchase of food by less economically developed countries. Less economically developed countries are able to increase food supplies, while farmers are still able to gain competitive prices for their produce.

And World Debt Cancellation


Bread for the World
http://www.bread.org/hunger/
Bread for the World members write personal letters and emails to urge congress to end world hunger. Working through churches, campuses, and other organizations, they engage more people in advocacy. Each year, Bread for the World invites churches and groups across the country to take up an Offering of Letters to Congress on an issue important to hungry people.
People place these letters in the offering plates during church services, prayerfully offering them to God before sending them to Congress.
For many, it is their first time communicating with their members of Congress.
Topics wrote to congress:
-Strengthen child nutrition programs.
-Protect tax credits for low-income families.

Great Leap Forward

-1958 the government of China came up with the Great Leap Forward
-supposed to be a plan for China’s population to transform into a communist society.
-Individual farming was forbidden and food rationing was introduced by the government.
-Rural Chinese people were left with less than 250g of grain per day
-caused famine
-20 million deaths


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-A lot of the famine and starvation is in the third world countries.
-Don't have enough money and resources to keep their people well fed and healthy.
-Even though there are still people who are starving and homeless in the first world countries, they still receive some kind of aid from the country they live in.

-Every year 15 million children die of hunger
-3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
-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.

Task #6

In the next twenty years, we think the economic gap will get bigger between developed and developing countries. Developing countries will become more in debt and lose more of their resources, developed countries won't be willing to help anymore. MNC's will take over and westernize their countries and culture making them more and more dependent on these companies.

Also, in twenty years since there will be so many MNC's, pollution will get worse. Government won't treat people fairly in developing countries because they will be trying to drag MNC's into their country by lowering human rights laws.

task #5

http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw31decolonizationafricasamerica.htm

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/imperialism,+19th-century+European

http://www.postcolonialweb.org/poldiscourse/neocolonialism1.html

Task #4

UNICEF

UNICEF was created by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1946 as a temporary organization called the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund to respond to the suffering of children in European countries devastated by World War II. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system, its task being to help children living in poverty in developing countries such as Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Its name was shortened to the United Nations Children's Fund, but it retained the acronym 'UNICEF', by which it is known to this day.
This program helps children get the care they need in the early years of life and encourages families to educate girls as well as boys. It strives to reduce childhood death and illness and to protect children in the midst of war and natural disaster. UNICEF supports young people, wherever they are, in making informed decisions about their own lives, and strives to build a world in which all children live in dignity and security.
some facts...

• UNICEF procures vaccines for 40% of the worlds children, which is nearly 3 billion doeses annually.
• They are the largest buyers of mosquito nets, procuring 25 million nets in 2006.
• With educational supplies, over 12 million kids went back to school in 2006 with the support of UNICEF.
• A generation ago, 70,000 children died each day. Today that number has been cut by more than half
• Thirty years ago, 1 in 4 children died before the age of five. Today that number is less than 1 in ten.
• This year, 3 million more children will live to their fifth birthday than in 1990, and tens of millions will lead healthier, more productive lives.
• In 1980, 10 percent of the world's children were immunized against the six killer diseases. Today, that number is over 75 percent.

Click here to visit UNICEF's webpage.

task #3

Mcdonald's

Ray Kroc invested his life savings to become the distributor of a milk shake maker called the Multimixer. He came accross a hamburger shop owned by Mcdonald brothers in California and suggested that they open up more restaurants offering to work for them.

The first Mcdonald's opened in 1955 in Chicago, and 6 years later Ray bought the business from the brothers. By 1965 there were more than 700 sites in existence across the United States.

By 2003, the corporation held over 31,000 sites in 119 countries. There are more than 1,400 McDonald's restaurants in Canada employing more than 77,000 Canadians. Antarctica is the only continent without a Mcdonald's.

McDonald's is one of several giant corporations with investments in vast tracts of land in poor countries, sold to them by the dollar-hungry rulers (often military) and privileged elites, evicting the small farmers that live there growing food for their own people.

Its global reach and broadly standard product line and level of service have led to McDonald's becoming the target of anti-globalization protests, and as the highest-profile fast food company, it is often blamed for obesity and excessive packaging waste.

Mcdonalds is the largest user of recycled paper in the industry, which includes such items as trayliners, fry boxes, serviettes, carry out bags and drink holders.

They continually monitor and refine their Waste Reduction Action Plan that focuses on the three R's - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - in their restaurants and with their suppliers. McDonald's has always been responsive to their customers and, over the years, has sought the advice of industry experts and the environmental community to ensure that they continue to make a difference in this important area.