1. Global Awareness Primary Focus #1
Extreme Poverty is a lack of basic human needs such as adequate food, clothing, housing, clean water and health services.

2. The Facts of Poverty…
More than 1.2 billion people (1 in every 5) survive on less than $1 a day.
Over 800 million people go to bed hungry every day…300 million are children.

3. Annual Cost of…
• Eliminating hunger globally: $19 billion. • Providing education for every kid on earth: $12 billion. • Providing access to water and sanitation: $15 billion. • Reversing the spread of AIDS and Malaria: $23 billion.

4. US Consumer Spending in...
Coffee Shops: $4 billion
Electronic and Appliance Stores: $82 billion
Florists: $6.6 billion
Shoe Stores: $22 billion
US Defence Spending: $522 billion

5. Global Awareness Primary Focus #2
Effective Governance and Human Rights
Respect for human rights
Institutions that protect citizens
Incorrupt police forces
Parliaments that represent citizen goals

6. Missing Persons from Chechnya…

7. Since 1986, over 30,000 boys and girls have been abducted in Northern Uganda and forced to become soldiers, laborers and sex slaves.

8. A child soldier
rides back to his
base in Ituri
Province,
northeastern
Congo.

9. Colombia has one of the highest antipersonnel landmine casualty rates in the world. 

10. Since December 2006, abductions and "disappearances" have risen rapidly in Sri Lanka, with government security forces frequently implicated.

11. A child miner works in the gruelling conditions of an open pit gold mine in Watsa, northeastern Congo.

12. Chapter Fourteen Questions – Pgs 325-331 and 339-340
1. Define the following terms:
Ingenuity Gap Labour Standards
2. One issue that has surfaced as a result of globalization is the gender gap and employment equity (equal pay for equal work). Employment equity in Canada and other countryies continues to be a concern. Explain why.
3. The International Labour Organization has identified four fundamental principles and rights at work. Identify these and explain how globalization discourages the implementation of these principles in the work place.
4. What are the criteria for Effective Governance? Do you think all countries practice effective government? Refer to page 339 and visit the Amnesty International web site to help answer this question.

13. Assignment Choose one of the 3 Take Action activities to submit:
1. Visit Make Poverty History and watch the Drop the Debt video and browse their 'Take Action' web site to select a campaign for you to get involved in...
2. Select a cause from the United Nations Cyber School Bus or Amnesty Internation site, and tell what you are chosing to do about/for the cause.
3. Select a story from the Good News column of Amnesty International. Summarize the highlights of one of the good news stories.

14. Evaluation for the 'Take Action Assignment' will be based on the following criteria:
- Identification and Outline of the Cause (who, what, when, where questions should be answered briefly adequately)
- Length - 1/2 page
- Mechanics (correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, etc.)
Total - /20