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Worldwide, approximately 40 million children are subjected to child abuse each year

One study revealed that about 30% of all severely disabled children relegated to special homes in the Ukraine died before they reached 18 years of age

UNICEF estimates that two million children died as a result of armed conflict during a recent 10-year period, and that another six million were injured or disabled.

In Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, over 6.5 million children annually are exposed to unwanted sexual materials over the Internet; over 1.7 million of these report distress over exposure to these materials.

Each year, approximately one million more children around the world are introduced into commercial sexual exploitation.

Sexual abuse statistics vary between countries and reports, but are consistently alarming: One country's research indicates that up to 36% of girls and 29% of boys have suffered child sexual abuse; another study reveals up to 46% of girls and 20% of boys have experienced sexual coercion.

More than 40 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza - 1.8 million people - are refugees, many of whom live in crowded camps.

Life in the Palestinian territories has gotten worse in recent years and economic hardship has deepened. In the past few months, Israel has eased some restrictions on Palestinian travel and trade in the West Bank.

Socio-economic conditions in Gaza, which is subject to the most severe restrictions, have deteriorated particularly sharply and the population is increasingly reliant on food aid. Israel has to stop the illegal destruction and take over of the Palestinian land.

"We used to be a nation of farmers, but now it's less than two percent of the population in the United States. So a lot of us don't know a lot about what it takes to grow food."

America’s food system is dominated by agribusiness and corporate farms, whose destructive practices pollute the environment, are cruel to animals, and offer us unhealthy food choices. Despite this dire situation, most people have little idea how to eat differently, or healthier.

1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.

1. I'm willing to pay more for a t-shirt if it has a cool corporate logo on it.

2. I believe that if I buy the cocktail dress, the cocktail party will come.

3. I have a shoe collection Imelda Marcos would envy.

4. When I'm cold, I take my clothes off and turn up the heat.

5. I'm willing to work 40 years at a job I hate so I can buy lots of stuff.

6. When I'm feeling blue, I like to go shopping and treat myself.

7. I want a sports utility vehicle, although I rarely drive in conditions that warrant one.

8. I usually make just the minimum payment on my credit cards.

9. I believe that whoever dies with the most toys wins.

10. I'd rather be shopping right now.

An organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as social and environmental standards. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate and flowers.

We need more retailers to expand their reach into these markets and to source out more products that are produced using a fair wage format. No longer can we continue to purchase products using cheap or forced labor. We the consumer should educate ourselves and make our voices heard. Speak with your dollars, spend your money wisely.

They swallow everything up and spit it out. They beg, borrow and lobby. They whine and dine off of your dollar. They get what they want and get bailed out.

Although most microbes that live in our environment perform functions essential to our survival, a small percentage of them enter our bodies to cause an infectious disease. Infectious diseases emerge, suddenly or gradually, in various environments, and may spread across a region or even the world. Weather and economics, for example, both play roles in the burgeoning and spread of a disease. By examining the physical and social environment, we can better learn how to prevent infectious disease.

We often hear about people’s desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it.

However, meaningful long-term alleviation to hunger is rooted in the alleviation of poverty, as poverty leads to hunger. World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty. If efforts are only directed at providing food, or improving food production or distribution, then the structural root causes that create hunger, poverty and dependency would still remain. And so while continuous effort, resources and energies are deployed to relieve hunger through these technical measures, the political causes require political solutions as well.

10) Action

The last but not least. ACTION ! Can you handle it? Can you find time for it? Can you be called to action for a cause greater than yourself? The answer is YES. Yes to Action. Yes - Yes - Yes