Global IssuesAnnouncement of new and updated content on the globalissues.org web site. GlobalIssues.org is a web site attempting to look at various global issues to show they are inter-related.Womens rights: empowering women empowers children- February 15, 2007 UNICEFs recent report on the state of the worlds children notes that enhancing rights of women has a positive effect on children. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is one of the most universally accepted treaties, on paper, though many countries fail to live up to the agreed principles. Furthermore, from birth to old age, women face many different types of struggles and face various forms of discrimination. In addition, women continue to be...http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/WomensRights.asp Global Warming and Over Population- February 1, 2007 It seems there has been a recent interest in associating climate changeglobal warming with over population and that countries such as China and India have to do more to help contain global warming. Yet rich countries have a lot to do themselves. There were agreed reasons why developing countries were exempt from initial greenhouse gas emission targets: it was the emissions from rich countries that accumulated in the atmosphere for so long to trigger climate change. At the same time, the rise of.http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming/population.asp |