40 30 20 0 Australia Vietnam Global Average Comparing money spent on health in Australia‚ Vietnam and the global average PART D: NGOs: Helping developing countries Name of the NGO: OXFAM The NGO addresses inequalities in the fight against poverty. List of the work and actions being made by my chosen NGO: Secure land tenure/ownership rights Set up village forest management groups to work with local authorities Develop sustainable
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GLOBAL ISSUES Simply hours after the impact in Haiti‚ nations all over the world such as the United States‚ the United Kingdom and Venezuela were pledging “unwavering support” (Matt Frei‚ 2010). The United States of America immediately dispatched Navy Ships and smaller boats to Haiti while the US Agency for International Development (USID) sent specialised teams with rescue equipment. Similarly‚ Israel sent two planes with a field hospital and around two hundred and twenty (220) emergency personnel
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It is a good idea to give our unwanted clothing to charity to make money for the poor or local communities and decrease the amount of textiles‚ which are sent to landfills. However‚ my voluntary job experience in Oxfam makes me feel that charity is not the end of garment waste. The Oxfam shop that I used to work for receives a large volume of donations every day‚ and most of them derive from fast fashion. Sometimes not even the charity will sell them due to their poor quality. Additionally‚ some consumers
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Socioeconomic effects on farmers in a volatile Ethiopian coffee market and the promise of the Fair Trade movement Coffee and Ethiopia have shared a lengthy and highly tumultuous relationship. According to some‚ their history dates back to the fifteenth century‚ but it is widely acknowledged that extensive trade didn’t begin until the late eighteenth century (Aregay 1988‚ 19). As world coffee consumption skyrocketed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries‚ Ethiopia’s economy grew increasingly
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World’s Resources - STWR. Web. 21 Dec. 2010. . International Cotton Advisory Council. "The Subsidies Gap between Rich and Poor | Environment | The Guardian." Latest News‚ Comment and Reviews from the Guardian | Guardian.co.uk. Web. 14 Dec. 2010. . Oxfam. "Cotton." UNCTAD.ORG Home. Web. 12 Dec. 2010. . USAID. "USAID Africa." U.S. Agency for International Development. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. . "WTO | Agriculture - Sub-Committee on Cotton." World Trade Organization - Home Page. 12 June 2004. Web. 09 Dec
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T/F 1. According to Oxfam‚ little has been written about the wars in Afghanistan T 2.According to Mills‚ Freedom is the ability to choose between the given alternatives F 3.One measure of powerlessness is the degree to which one’s choices are limited by necessity T 4.Social roles are individually acted and socially determined T 5.Sociological competence does require meeting ethical research F 6.According to Johnson‚ one characteristic feature of militarism is the clear division of labor between
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In this documentary the company sent their general manager to a class from Oxfam Australia to teach mine owners‚ where he came up with the idea for both groups to meet and talk to each other and participate in the roundtable process.I think this was necessary for both groups to understand each other better and make communication
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Poverty and Oppressed: Why Has Poverty Been Occurring for so Long? “What I would like in the future is to do what I can to help people‚ is to help the poor so they have what they need. Everybody will have a stable house‚ everybody will be well and no child will be in need.” as stated by the eleven year-old Luisa living in poverty. How sad this makes me feel as a teenage girl‚ to know that there are billions of children all around the world suffering‚ along with their parents because of poverty
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What are the main causes of food insecurity in the world today? Outline and evaluate 2 or 3 possible solutions to food insecurity problems Currently‚ millions of people across the globe suffer from under-nutrition and hunger. In 2007‚ the UN (United Nations) estimated that there are approximately 850 million people who suffer undernourishment in the world today. It also reported that 799 million undernourished people live in developing countries
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Oxfam‚ the international charity that works to right the wrongs of poverty‚ hunger‚ and injustice‚ states that “The obligation of States to respect‚ protect and fulfil the Right to Food as a fundamental human right requires the appropriate policy initiatives. As such‚ its legal recognition is a necessary –though insufficient - step in its fulfilment and provides the framework for justiciability.” I felt that the human Rights issue that was highlighted in the book Enrique’s Journey was the one of
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