You had great information regarding of this matter. The government is responsible for charities in any terms. They need to protect the people. Over a billion people across the globe don’t have those kinds of choices. World hunger is fast becoming a pandemic, and some of it is in our own backyard – such as the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. Citizens of Haiti have resorted to literally eating dirt – making cookie sized clumps of dirt and eating them, which exposes them to an untold number of bacteria and possible infections. This last month, there was a resolution that went before the floor at the United Nations, and it was whether or not food was a fundamental human right, and it passed by a margin of 180 to 1. There were no abstentions, or nations that didn’t have an opinion, and only 7 countries were absent. The sole opposition to the resolution was the United States of America. The reason must have been sound – it had to do with opposition to the wording of the resolution – but that doesn’t change the fact that it happened.
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BY Jamal D
ON January 3, 2009 03:02 AM
You had great information regarding of this matter. The government is responsible for charities in any terms. They need to protect the people. Over a billion people across the globe don’t have those kinds of choices. World hunger is fast becoming a pandemic, and some of it is in our own backyard – such as the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. Citizens of Haiti have resorted to literally eating dirt – making cookie sized clumps of dirt and eating them, which exposes them to an untold number of bacteria and possible infections. This last month, there was a resolution that went before the floor at the United Nations, and it was whether or not food was a fundamental human right, and it passed by a margin of 180 to 1. There were no abstentions, or nations that didn’t have an opinion, and only 7 countries were absent. The sole opposition to the resolution was the United States of America. The reason must have been sound – it had to do with opposition to the wording of the resolution – but that doesn’t change the fact that it happened.