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Issues - “Child labour” Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.
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Yellow (<10% of children working) Green (10-20%) Orange (20-30%) Red (30-40%) Black (>40%). Some nations such as Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Ethiopia have more than half of all children aged 5- 14 at work to make ends meet.
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-SOCIAL- -ECONOMIC- -POLITICAL-
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Issues - Transnational criminal activities – Importation of Chinese drugs into Australia “Trafficker sentenced to jail over methamphetamine hidden inside tiles imported from China”.
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Objects of Global Crime
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Issues - Disease ‘Pestilence’ & the ‘War on Disease’ The eradication of Polio – example India. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india- 25708715 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india- 25709362 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17045202
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“The single biggest threat to human’s continued dominance on the planet is the virus.” Joshua Lederburg Ph.D Nobel Laureate
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Polio survives – Pakistan – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia- 25455069 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia- 25455069 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia- 25446963 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia- 25446963 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia- 22932744 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia- 22932744
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-Disease Warriors- (narrated by Bead Pitt) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJR8kfhsLU
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en·dem·ic “ Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people: diseases endemic to the tropics.” Epi.dem.ic 1. An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely. 2. A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic. pan·dem·ic 1. Widespread; general. 2. Medicine Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population: pandemic influenza.
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Current pandemics HIV and AIDS Pandemics and notable epidemics through history Cholera Polio Influenza Typhus Smallpox Measles Tuberculosis Leprosy Malaria Yellow fever Concern about possible future pandemics Viral haemorrhagic fevers – eg. Ebola Antibiotic resistance SARS Influenza like H5N1 (Avian Flu)
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