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The UNICEF website tells the grim reality for millions of children right now, today. 246 million children around the world are engaged in exploitative child labour. 13.4 million children have been orphaned by HIV/Aids. 1.2 million children are trafficked for labour or sex every year. This is not just a problem for developing countries in the grip of poverty. According to the Daily Mirror, every week an average of 88 children are expelled from US schools for carrying a gun. 61 per cent of British teenagers believe aliens have landed on Earth while only 39 per cent have any belief in Christianity.
Social Issues	Salvationist - 3rd July 2004



Sri Lanka has a population of 19.5 million, 4 million of whom live below the poverty line. In the country's capital, Colombo, it is estimated there are 2,000 children living and working on the streets. A further 2,500 children live on the streets in other cities across Sri Lanka.
Social Issues	Interact - July / September 2004



In the sub-Saharan Africa 314 million people live on less than US$1 per day. 840 million people are seriously under nourished. 104 million children receive no formal education and 60 million people have HIV/AIDS.
Social Issues	Worldshare magazine - Summer 2004



Colombia - The Facts Ten families every hour are forced to flee their homes. More than 2 million people have left their original communities during the 40-year civil war. More than 17,000 people have been kidnapped over the last five years.
Social Issues	The Walk - June 2004



Inferninha the child prostitution area of Recife, at least 40 children are known to be working as prostitutes - with more than 60 at weekends. Some of the boys and girls are as young as ten, and some have been sent there by their parents to supplement their income.
Social Issues	Just Right - Issue 10 2004



In a graph showing the probability of not reaching 40 years - the top 34 countries are all African.
Social Issues	Justright - Issue 10



The key findings of the TRC (Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission), in Peru include a death toll estimated at double that of the previous one and figures showing that nearly 70 per cent of those killed had no secondary education. Around 60 per cent of the men killed left behind a wife and family, according to a report from the Peru Support Group (PSG) on the findings of the TRC.
Social Issues	The Church of England Newspaper - 8th April 2004



In Rwanda, one quarter of five year olds are underweight and eight out of ten live on less than £1.50 per day.
Social Issues	Scottish Catholic Observer - 9th April 2004



More than 500,000 Rwandans are infected with HIV/AIDS, in a population of just 8 million. More than 200,000 children were orphaned (and as women who were raped die from AIDS the number is growing). The country's jails are crammed with almost 100,000 men accused of murder during the genocide.
Social Issues	Christian Herald - 10th April 2004



Samaritan's Purse International Relief (SPIR) has launched a major public appeal to provide safe drinking water for thousands of families in Mozambique. According to the charity, almost 75 per cent of Mozambique's 18 million people do not have direct access to safe drinking water.
Social Issues	Christian Herald - 3rd April 2004



80 per cent of the 8 million inhabitants of Haiti (the poorest country in the western hemisphere) live well below the poverty line. There are only just over 20,000 jobs for the city's 3 million inhabitants. 40,000 people in Haiti officially have AIDS.
Social Issues	WorldShare magazine Window - Spring 2004



"UN World Water facts;" * Despite the earth being 70 per cent water, freshwater ecosystems only cover one per cent of the Earth's surface. * A billion people do not have access to safe water. * Two billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation. * Three million people die each year from easily preventable water related diseases. * By 2025 it is estimated 3.5 billion people will experience water shortages. * Of the 19 countries labelled "water stressed" most are in Africa. * Human and industrial waste, fertilisers, sewage and pesticides - to name but a few - are contaminating the world's water. * Global warming and deforestation are causing sea water levels to rise resulting in droughts and floods. * An estimated 34 per cent of all fish species are threatened by extinction. * About 25,000 people die daily from hunger, 6,000 die daily from diarrhoea and 815 million people are suffering from malnutririon.
Social Issues	Scottish Catholic Observer - March 19th 2004



Hunger in itself is a weapon of mass destruction - it kills 24,000 people a day and 11 children every minute.
Social Issues	The Scottish Catholic Observer - February 27th 2004



It is surely a horrifying blemish on the goodness and greatness of advanced societies that we should accept as natural that 20 per cent of humanity have access to 80 per cent of the world's resources and 80 per cent have access to only 20 per cent.
Social Issues	The Church of England Newspaper - 19th February 2004



In Britain it is predicted that we could see at least 200,000 jobs moving overseas in the next five years. In Amercia one organisation estimated in 2002 that 3.3 million jobs will move overseas by 2015. A report from Deloitte Research in 2003 said that the top 100 financial services firms plan to move $356 billion in operations and two million jobs overseas in the next five years. In Britain around 50,000 have probably disappeared.
Social Issues	The Church of England Newspaper - 19th February 2004

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