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.26,500 children died today- January 31, 2008 Updated figures reported by UNICEF showed that approximately 9.7 million children under the age of 5 died around the world. That is the equivalent to some 26,500 children dying a day, or 1 child dying approximately every 3 seconds. The causes are often poverty, hunger and preventable diseases. While the number of under 5 children dying each year is declining, the pace of decline seems slow year after year. Since 1960, such deaths have fallen from 20 million to 9.7 million in 2006 and given the..http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/death/ Military in Movies; Less Shock, More Awe- January 26, 2008 Many well-known films have had the advice of the military, even having parts of their script influenced by them. This benefits both the film producers (e.g. access to military bases or aircraft carriers and more authenticity) and the military (e.g. a chance to portray a more preferable image). Audiences are used to seeing films being promoted with merchandising such as toys, off screen, but on-screen a lot of programming contains a combination of product placement and military involvement. The..http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Corporations/Ads.asp Bali Climate Conference- January 1, 2008 The UN conference on climate change held in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007 led to a final agreement known as the Bali Roadmap. The Bali Roadmap outlined a new negotiating process to be concluded by 2009 to feed into a post-Kyoto (i.e. a post-2012) international agreement on climate change. The Roadmap included a decision to launch an Adaptation Fund as well as further decisions on technology transfer and on reducing emissions from deforestation. However, as with past climate conferences, this.http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming/bali.php |