*Ø* Blogmanac July 11 | World Population Day
The theme of this year’s World Population Day, “One billion adolescents: the right to health, information and services”, highlights the need to support young people in their efforts to lead safe, rewarding lives and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities.
Throughout the world, millions of girls and boys are deprived of an education, harming their individual prospects and those of society at large …
From Message of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan July 11, 2003
More than 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty have a right to better lives. The challenge is to improve living standards without destroying the environment. Environmental destruction, along with natural disasters had created 25 million environmental refugees by 1998. Immediate problems include increasing population pressure, food shortages, water scarcity, desertification, deforestation, extinction of plants and animals, global warming, reduced fish catches and health risks from pollution.
World Population Day 2003
Population Issues Overview
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July 11, 1995 The killing days at Srebrenica began.
In Europe’s most horrific case of genocide and gendercide since WWII, at least 7,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred almost under the watchful eyes of United Nations troops. Perhaps if it wasn’t for the tenacity and courage of journalist David Rohde of the Christian Science Monitor, the story would not have got out to the world.
The theme of this year’s World Population Day, “One billion adolescents: the right to health, information and services”, highlights the need to support young people in their efforts to lead safe, rewarding lives and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities.
Throughout the world, millions of girls and boys are deprived of an education, harming their individual prospects and those of society at large …
From Message of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan July 11, 2003
More than 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty have a right to better lives. The challenge is to improve living standards without destroying the environment. Environmental destruction, along with natural disasters had created 25 million environmental refugees by 1998. Immediate problems include increasing population pressure, food shortages, water scarcity, desertification, deforestation, extinction of plants and animals, global warming, reduced fish catches and health risks from pollution.
World Population Day 2003
Population Issues Overview
July 11, 1995 The killing days at Srebrenica began.
In Europe’s most horrific case of genocide and gendercide since WWII, at least 7,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred almost under the watchful eyes of United Nations troops. Perhaps if it wasn’t for the tenacity and courage of journalist David Rohde of the Christian Science Monitor, the story would not have got out to the world.
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