2009年7月22日水曜日

Meeting 14: Global Issues Discussion Day 1

In today's meeting the Uighur group presented about disease and the Philippines group presented about weapons and war. After the discussion various MMCE members also gave various ideas about how we can make the problems better. It was a very interesting meeting today and I am looking forward to next week's meeting. Please remember that next week we will start MMCE at 10:20 AM.
Below is a summary of the main points of each presentation.

Disease: (By Uighur)

Main Point of the Presentation
Developing countries suffer from infectious diseases such as Aids, cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, measles and malaria. Many people dies from these diseases every year even though these diseases are preventable. The most dangerous diseases in developed countries are cancer and hear disease.

What can be done to make the problem better?
  • Help people change their life conditions such as getting access to clean water
  • .Education about infectious diseases
  • Donate money for vaccinations.
  • "Don't give fish but teach how to fish"
  • Make drugs such as drugs to treat Aids cheaper
  • People should change their lifestyle to prevent health problems (no overeating, etc,)






Weapons and War: (by the Philippines)

Main point of the presentation
There are many wars going on even today.
Ex. Only in Africa there are more than 10 wars.
8 international wars and 25 civil wars in 2005

One problem that results from these wars is land mines
About 2000 people are killed or injured by landmines every month.
It is difficult to remove landmines because it is dangerous and expensive.
Fact:Between China and Vietnam there are 2 million land mines

What can be done?
  • Monetary support for removing mines (Opposite opinion - giving money is not good because they might use the money for other military affairs. )
  • Find the landmines and mark them
  • Don't make new landmines
  • Government should persuade countries with landmines to join the Ottawa Treaty
  • United Nations has the removing mines project and we can give monetary support to the United Nations. It is better than giving it to some government.


2 件のコメント:

  1. We thought about the way to improve many problems in this meeting.
    >Disease
    We don't know the real conditions of the countries which has some diseases. So we should know about the countries and diseases. I think that is the way we can in Japan. If we think these things, our attitude must be change.
    >Weapons and war
    I was very surprised to hear the fact of the number of the war. Only in Africa there are more than 10 wars. 8 international wars and 25 civil wars in 2005. I thought that our knowledge of the war was only a few parts of the world. I became vary sad. We can do a lot of things to improve these situations as a member of developed contries. I would like to start my action from thinking the world.

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  2. I learned many things about Global issue.

    I didn't know that developing and developed countries have diference of diseases.
    In japan, we could buy many foods and eat it whenever we want. But, developing countries could't. And it is caused of starve and malaria.
    And more, I didn't know there are a lot of landmine in ground.And it is dangerous.
    So,I think all countris sould understand these individual country's state.

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