Global Social Issues

are challenges that can be environmental, economic, or social.

By Maria Zimmerman

​Global Issues:

Global Social Issues:

are challenges that affect a community or society, often related with human rights, inequality, or political power.

Racial segregation.

​Europeans, Asians and Africans in front of a wealthy white-owned estate in South Africa. This photograph, taken just before the turn of the century, vividly illustrates the racial divisions that have characterized South African society.

Apartheid

Apartheid in Asia

In what has been called Asia's hidden apartheid, entire villages in many Indian states remain completely segregated by caste. Caste-based abuse is also prevalent in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, and several African states.

In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.

By Maria Zimmerman

a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
Some two million Hutus - both civilians and some of those involved in the genocide - then fled across the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the time called Zaire, fearing revenge attacks. Others went to neighboring Tanzania and Burundi.

​https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506

Refugee(s)

Multiple Choice

This is an example of?

• Animism

• Apartheid

• Dictator

• Human Rights

Multiple Choice

Tutsi rebels in Uganda formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invaded Rwanda in 1990. By the end of the Second Republic was the beginning of a 100-day rampage in which hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered.

• Apartheid

• Imperialism

• Human Rights

• Genocide

Multiple Choice

It is estimated that 400,000 people have died due to violence, starvation and disease. More than 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes and over 200,000 have fled across the border to Chad. Many now live in camps lacking adequate food, shelter, sanitation, and health care.

• Refugee(s)

• Famine

• Secede

• Genocide

To withdraw from an organization (such as a religious communion or political party or federation)

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Secede

​Human Rights

​Rights (such as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons.
“The future must see the broadening of human rights throughout the world,” Eleanor Roosevelt told a crowd in September 1948 at the Sorbonne in Paris.

​Dictators a person with unlimited governmental power.

1. General Idi Amin Dada
Country: Uganda

2. Hissene Habre
Country: Chad

​3. Omar Al-bashir
Country: Sudan

Multiple Choice

As part of a peace agreement signed in 2005, southern Sudan held a referendum in January 2011, and the people voted overwhelmingly in favor of establishing their own country. On July 9, 2011, South Sudan came into existence as an independent country.

• secede

• Apartheid

• Human Rights

• Genocide

Fill in the Blank

(1924/25–2003). After taking control of Uganda in a military coup in 1971, Idi Amin ruled the country with despotic power for eight years. His regime was noted for its brutality. This is an example of...

Multiple Choice

In the wake of World War II's horrors, Roosevelt saw the need to support refugees and affirm the right to education, shelter and medical care.

• Refugee

• Apartheid

• Human Rigths

• Secede

​The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas.

Imperealism:

Africa’s hunger crisis is particularly severe in the Horn of Africa (Sudan and Somalia) and the West and Central Africa regions (Niger)

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Famine

https://www.worldvision.org/hunger-news-stories/africa-hunger-famine-facts

A South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans.

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Afrikaners

​https://www.visapourlimage.com/en/festival/exhibitions/sang-afrikaner-la-generation-nee-libre

Multiple Choice

what is this policy?

• Genocide

• Famine

• Imperialism

• Apartheid

Multiple Choice

Sudan: Escalating conflict in 2023 added 8.6 million people to those facing extreme hunger. 

• Human Rights

• Genocide

• Afrikaners

• Famine

Multiple Choice

Famine is...

• Racial Segregation

• Rights regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons.

• deliberate and systematic destruction of a gruoup

• An extreme scarcity of food