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Source: ST/AI/189/Add.3/Rev.2, para. 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awake-1984-10-22-p.6 Today, the prospects seem more dismal than ever for reversing—or even checking—rapid growth in the number of the desperately hungry. “Chronic hunger remains a problem for tens of millions of people,” states The Unesco Courier, a United Nations publication. “Nearly 500 million human beings, stagnating in poverty, are under daily threat of famine.” Does it really require more than that to convince an honest-hearted person that he is witnessing the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1985-5-22-p.3 The reports are equally chilling. A special issue of the magazine Courier, an official United Nations publication, grimly points out that many people were optimistic ten years ago and adds: “Today, however, it must be admitted that the plight of the world’s underprivileged is steadily worsening. Nearly 500 million human beings, stagnating in poverty, are under daily threat of famine.” The UN World Food Council estimates that “every year in developing countries, 15 million children die from malnutrition,” which translates into an infant death rate 30 times higher than that in developed countries. And, according to The World Bank, 200 million Africans—more than 60 percent of that continent’s population—eat less than a survival diet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watchtower-1985-8-15-p.3 Around the earth many still lack much freedom, or they suffer discrimination. Realizing this, various individuals devote their lives to trying to remove all sorts of injustices and inequalities. One recent United Nations publication on the subject of freedom refers more than a dozen times to being equal and to the need of equality. Evidently it is still an elusive goal. Why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1991-1-8-p.28 “Poor rural women are the most deprived people in the world,” states the United Nations publication, UN Chronicle. “They are sicker and more illiterate than men and lack the opportunities males have to better themselves.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1995-3-8-p.6 States Facts for Life, a United Nations publication: “For the first few months of a baby’s life, breastmilk alone is the best possible food and drink. Infants need other foods, in addition to breastmilk, when they are four-to-six months old.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1996-12-22-p.29 Ever more people are moving to the cities, reports the United Nations publication The State of World Population 1996. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1997-12-8-p.29 “Approximately 2 million girls are mutilated every year,” states the 1996 edition of The Progress of Nations, a United Nations Children’s Fund publication on the health, nutrition, and education of children. “Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, and the Sudan account for 75% of all cases. In Djibouti and Somalia, 98% of girls are mutilated.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1998-4-8-p.12 Progress has undoubtedly been made since then, but as the United Nations publication The World’s Women 1995 states, there is still a long way to go. “Too often, women and men live in different worlds,” it reports, “worlds that differ in access to education and work opportunities, and in health, personal security and leisure time.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awake-1998-4-8-p.10 Nothing else has such power to improve family health and to improve the lives of women themselves, notes the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) publication The State of the World’s Children 1991. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-1999-1-8-p.31 However, the UN publication United Nations Action for Youth notes that especially in the developing world, progress is overshadowed by persistent problems related to education, employment, and poverty, and these are just a few of the areas that the World Programme aims to improve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awake-1999-11-22-p.29 “The continued use of children in hostilities has grown from an estimated 250,000 two to three years ago to 300,000 today,” reports Go Between, a publication of the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service. Awake-2000-2-8-p.31 “More progress has been made in reducing global poverty in the past five decades than in the previous five centuries,” states UNDP Today, a publication of the United Nations Development Programme ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awake-2002-5-22-pp.3-4 This growing worldwide integration has produced a whole series of consequences—economic, political, cultural, and environmental. Unfortunately, some of these consequences can be negative. The United Nations publication Human Development Report 1999 explained: “People’s lives around the globe are linked more deeply, more intensely, more immediately than ever before. This opens many opportunities, giving new power to good and bad.” Like many human achievements, globalization has both an upside and a downside. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watchtower-2003-3-15-pp.12-13 But illiteracy will handicap a daughter. A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) publication states: “Study after study has demonstrated that providing education for girls is one of the best strategies for breaking the hold of poverty.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awake-2003-9-22-p.11 Many illnesses, especially diarrhea, can be prevented by applying the following suggestions that are set out in Facts for Life, a publication of the United Nations Children’s Fund.