Climate Change
At current levels, unless we contain global warming under 2°C, by 2050 one third of all animal species will be
at risk of extinction and two billion people will be left without drinking water.
The good news is that in 2009 we can do something about it. On December the 11th 2009 Europe’s leaders
are meeting to decide on the post Kyoto environmental policy. There can only be one outcome - a genuine and unanimous commitment to a reduction of 30% in CO2 emissions by 2020. Otherwise there’ll only be one outcome for humanity and all the other animals species on earth: extinction.
Europe’s leaders must approve a law to guarantee a 30% reduction in greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 this December in Copenhagen, or risk 1/3 of all animals being threatened with extinction by 2050.
Child Labour
All too often in developing countries child labour is the short term solution to poverty. But this only reinforces the vicious circle of poverty - child labour - illiteracy - poverty.
This cycle has to be broken - to protect children and lead developing countries out of poverty. To do this we must communicate to their leaders and governments that only via education and long term solutions can the economic condition of their countries be improved.
Child labour is too complicated an issue to be simply abolished, and snap reactions like boycotts can make the situation worse. We need a debate without bias on the subject that concentrates on improving the situation
without making it worse with good, but damaging, intentions.
Children are not a short-term resource for immediate economic relief and their education is an investment in their country’s (and family’s) future.
Women gife life to Africa.
Communities are the core of life. And the heart of every community is the woman.
Yet every year in developing countries 82 million adolescent girls become wives, 14 million give birth to a child, 83 million cannot read and write, while an unknown number of young women are forced to drop out of school thereby jeopardizing their future. Action must be taken to give women in sub-saharan Africa, where 74% of Africas urban population is concentrated, the respect they deserve and the hope that africa needs. Amref runs schemes such as malkia (queens in swahili) in the slums of nairobi, that help raise women out of their difficult everyday situations by giving them the support and confidence they need through art and education.
Women in Africa are the pillars of their communities. They must be provided with means to help them gain the respect they deserve and allowed to speak with their own voice.
Communities are the core of life. And the heart of every community is the woman.
Yet every year in developing countries 82 million adolescent girls become wives, 14 million give birth to a child, 83 million cannot read and write, while an unknown number of young women are forced to drop out of school thereby jeopardizing their future. Action must be taken to give women in sub-saharan Africa, where 74% of Africas urban population is concentrated, the respect they deserve and the hope that africa needs. Amref runs schemes such as malkia (queens in swahili) in the slums of nairobi, that help raise women out of their difficult everyday situations by giving them the support and confidence they need through art and education.
Women in Africa are the pillars of their communities. They must be provided with means to help them gain the respect they deserve and allowed to speak with their own voice.
AIDS - HIV
HIV isn’t a life sentence.
Despite evidence to the contrary, being HIV positive isn’t a criminal offence. Yet aids sufferers are legally and socially discriminated against every day. In some countries being HIV positive is even judged under criminal, not civil, law. Governments must be convinced that making laws against hiv and its sufferers won’t stop the spread of the disease. Instead of focusing on repression and punishing people who contract the disease, efforts should be concentrated on preventing it via education.
Being HIV positive is not a criminal offence.
Governments must focus on education and prevention of the disease rather than repression.
HIV isn’t a life sentence.
Despite evidence to the contrary, being HIV positive isn’t a criminal offence. Yet aids sufferers are legally and socially discriminated against every day. In some countries being HIV positive is even judged under criminal, not civil, law. Governments must be convinced that making laws against hiv and its sufferers won’t stop the spread of the disease. Instead of focusing on repression and punishing people who contract the disease, efforts should be concentrated on preventing it via education.
Being HIV positive is not a criminal offence.
Governments must focus on education and prevention of the disease rather than repression.
