The Guardian: 69m children will die of preventable causes, says Unicef
UN children’s agency report highlights toll on youngsters by 2030 unless world leaders turn rhetoric into reality on fighting poverty
Less than a year after the world promised to leave no one behind by signing up to an ambitious 15-year blueprint to end inequality, the UN children’s agency says that 69 million children will die from mostly preventable causes by 2030, and 167 million will be living in extreme poverty, unless world leaders turn rhetoric into reality.
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“For the most part, the constraints on reaching these children are not technical. They are a matter of political commitment. They are a matter of resources. And they are a matter of collective will – joining forces to tackle inequity and inequality head-on by focusing greater investment and effort on reaching the children who are being left behind. The time to act is now.”
ReplyDelete69 million kids.
It's genocide in the time of world wide capitalism.
RRH
ReplyDeleteTHIS ONES JUST FOR YOU!
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161466
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DeleteWhy thank you phill, for the very helpful illumination of a charitable act toward post-revolutionary Russia in 1921.
DeleteBefore I proceed to employ your very cogent, if narrowly conceived/employed, historical intervention, a word. Just because a person criticizes the current hegemonic system, that bring capitalism, does not mean they are advocating communism; much less as it was practiced in Russia. In 1921. After a world war. Revolution. Civil War. (Beneficent to be sure--aren't they all?) "Western" invasion. During a drought.
No, the criticism is in fact quite specificand contemporary. So, JUST for you, phill.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che and Count Dracula have been (un)dead -- duly resurrected whenever self appointed guardians of capitalism want to fart out some chaff to distract any criticism of the system they have pledged to defend to the last man, or kid in this case-- for decades, but, the bodies keep piling up.
All of this, as phill as so graciously pointed out with apt historical (re)proof, with the knowlege that "we" certainly know better.
Further to that, and thanks again for the help, phill, TODAY'S U.S. food aid is a paltry crumb in compared to the ARA's efforts, especially when compared to the real money maker; military aid.
But I digress. I was critizing international capitalism, which includes, but is not limited to, the U.S.A.
Now phill, I understand, especialy since Live Aid, y'all have taken the "We Are The World" thing to heart but you just are not the only all profit, all the time game in town-- more on that later.
DeleteCharitable acts of a bygone era notwithstanding, in a world dominated by the capitalist system, in 2016 -- that's TOOO THOUSAND AN' SIXTEEN (an' about fiddy cent), 69 MILLION kids are dying, will die from perfectly preventable causes. Fo sho, right now.
So, if I may publicly avail myself of your unsolicited informational charity, oh graduate of the high fallutin' indignant morally reductionist obfuscationist school of capitalist deflection of criticism...
Just what, the f###, is goin' on?
in the spirit of charity that phill has given the little trip down memory lane getting off on 1921 Hoover Street,
ReplyDeleteSome less than charitable, and by no means eexhaustive, list of historical addresses worth a visit.
JUST FOR YOU PHILL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/35/181
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/colonial-atrocities-explode-myth-of-dutch-tolerance-1439153.html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch02-3.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill-children-un-reports.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/libya-anniversary-situation-terrible-
150216082028555.html
NOTE: The stunning and astounding absence of Communist killers at the above addresses. In a neighbourhood this bad one would expect at least ONE reference to LeninStalinMaoChe. Amazingly, a large number of these horrifying acts and more, not forgetting the 69 million kids, happened before, happened after or are in progress as we #### about on this forum playing games__
OWN YOUR SHIT for a change.