1. Human Rights Issues

2. Apartheid  “apartness” - racial segregation in S. Africa from 1948-1994  Nelson Mendela President from 1994 – 1999 was arrested in 1962 for anti-apartheid statements served 27 years in prison

3. Genocide  deliberate & systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, or religious group Holocaust (1940s)  Germans killing Jews Rwanda (1994)  mass murder of 800,000 people  Hutus killing Tutsis  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3594187.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3594187.stm Bosnian War (1992 – 1995)  Serbs killing Bosnians

4. Famine  925 million people starving (2010)  N. Korea  Horn of Africa  http://www.wfp.org/hunger http://www.wfp.org/hunger

5. Diseases  Influenza 36,000 deaths/year in U.S.  Cholera diarrhea infection Zimbabwe & Haiti  AIDS killed 25 million people since 1981 sub-Saharan Africa  Malaria mosquito parasite kills 2.7 million people/year kills 2,800 children/day