On January 12 2010, a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, causing a lot of damage and many people lost their lives in this earthquake, and leaving three million people in need of emergency aid. The earthquake was the strongest to hit Haiti in more than 200 years. The estimate of the death toll continued to the weeks following. In February 2012, more than two years later, the United Nations officials estimated that 1.5 million people remained homeless or in temporary relief camp housing. The deaths from the earthquakes remain uncertain. In January 2011, Haiti’s former prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive place the death toll at 316,000 people, this death toll was higher than the estimate 220,000 to 25,000 people killed in 2004 in the Indian Ocean tsunami regardless Haiti’s earthquake will remain among the most deadly natural disasters in modern history. The epic center of the earthquake was near the Haitian capitol of Port-au-Prince which suffered the most damage. More than 80 percent of buildings in the city were destroyed by the earthquake. During the week following the earthquake, Haiti experienced scattered outbreaks of looting, gun fire, and violence. The UN’s Haitian mission assumed responsibility for security. At the request for U.S. had been needed, In February, over 2,000 U.S. troops were assigned to recovery and rebuilding efforts in Haiti. At least 5000 Haitians were suffering from an Illness called cholera. The UN discovered the source of the cholera outbreak; it was from the swage getting in to the water system. By 2012, the cholera out break had killed an estimate of 7,000 people, and with an estimate of 485,000 cases of cholera.
Women and Poverty Summary
Across the world women experience higher rates of poverty than men, related to the economic opportunities and lack of access to economic resources. Poverty can also force women into situations in which they are sexually abused. The UN conference on women and poverty found causes and developed solutions to reduce poverty among women and increase economic development for women world wide. In some regions of the world, cultural and tradition keeps women from working and earning wages. In India, women labourers experience poverty in high numbers, there women commonly experience gender-based wage discrimination. In the early 2000s, the international Labour office helped to establish “self-help groups” to assist women labourers to get better pay and entry into unions, which has helped to decrease some of the poverty women faced in India. In other countries like Palestine 11 percent of women work in the labour force, widowed Palestinian women face the highest rate of poverty. Social insurance laws in many countries do not include women’s unpaid labour, for Example, In the United States stay home mothers and house wives who do not earn money do not get social security insurance credits, but countries like Venezuela stay home mothers and house wives do receive social insurance credits. Single mothers in all societies are vulnerable to poverty. Motherhood is a leading factor in holding women back from work. Each year according to the United Nations Population Fund, more than 10 million women face chronic illness or disability as direct result of complications issues that weaken women’s ability to work or to avoid poverty for herself and her children. Poor nutrition in childhood can cause problems as child reaches adulthood and becomes pregnant, pregnancy complications from chronic malnutrition puts the mother’s life at risk. The United Nations Announced in November 2011 that the world population had topped seven billion. Most of the population growth took place in developing nations. In Africa the population is growing by 2.3 percent per year. Women lack the access to birth control, social pressure to marry at a young age, having large families but they don’t have enough money to feed their family. Lack of education and social standing for women contribute to the cycle of poverty.
Famine in Somalia Summary
The nation of Somalia has spent much of the past twenty years torn apart by civil war. Hundreds of thousands of Somali citizens have been killed in the conflict, and many more have fled to near by countries, like Kenya and Ethiopia to escape the war. For those who remained, the hot dry climate has led them to a deadly drought and famine. Somalia didn’t have a central government to coordinate operations; international aid groups have had difficulty getting food to those who need it the most. Somalia Is located in horn of Africa, a section along the continent’s eastern coast near the Arabian peninsula. The country supports nearly two thousand miles of coastline, ad fishing has long been an important source of food and income for Somali citizens. In 2004, a massive earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean; the tsunami generated by the earthquake destroyed many fishing villages and vessels along the Somali coast. This led to increase reliance upon the country’s agriculture industry to keep its citizens fed. Those areas suitable for agriculture rely upon seasonal rainfall to keep their crops from dying. In 2010 and 2011, a climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean, known as La Nina, caused there to be less rain in Somalia, this destroyed much of Somalia’s domestic food supply. In January 2011 the United Nations declared that much of Somalia was experiencing famine. The vast majority of people who died of famine were children, an estimate of 30,000 children died between May and July 2011due to hunger. UN officials said that the toll of death in Somalia from the famine reached as high as 75000 people. One complicating factor in the fight against famine is the country’s political instability. In 1991, a revolt against Somalia’s long time dictator, Siad Barre left the country without a formal government. Rebels in the North-western region of Somalia, known as Somaliland declared their territory as an independent state soon after, leading to a drawn out civil war in 1998. An Islamic rebel group called al Shabab fight for the control of southern regions of the country. In the south the government have been weekend and the United Nation aid group have little to protect themselves. The famine has led to other diseases like cholera and measles. The severer drought in Somalia stretched in Ethiopia and Kenya, leaving aid workers underfunded. In December 2011, The U.S. president Barak Obama announced an addition $113 million in emergency relief for victims of famine. Also in December the UK announced that it would fund 9,000 metric tons of food aid and medical supplies.
How NBA Violence has changed in the year 2012.
Over the years NBA has been a sport everyone enjoyed watching but it started becaming a large issue in violence. The close contact in the game makes it easy to be agressive and sometimes players will get violente. A perfect example would be the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma city Thunders game on April 21st 2012. The game between these two great basketball teams started getting agressive, it was in the 3rd quorter when Ron Artest (AKA Meta world peace) from the Lakers throw an Elbow at James Harden (from the Oklahoma thunders) in the head. James Harden suffered a minor concussion and didnt play for 2 games and had to be in hospital, Ron Artest was suspendend for 5 games.
I think the Ron Artest insendent should have been dealt with severe consequnces and i think the NBA just let it go. Over the years the NBA rules for has gotten really bad because referies dont call fawls and it gets really agressive when refs dont call the fawls. I