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China Food Scandal: Rat Meat Sold as Lamb Meat
World  (tags: warning, risks, food, health, nutrition, illness, humans, disease, family, children, society, world )

Evelyn
- 14 days ago - naturalnews.com
Beyond the obvious gross factor of the discovery, the rat meat used in the scam was obviously never safety tested or inspected. It may have been, like many other foods in China, heavily contaminated with heavy metals and toxic chemicals. Rats, after all..
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UN Vote Backs Precautionary Approach to Depleted Uranium Weapons
World  (tags: depleted uranium weapons, weapons, humanrights, world, war, health, research, risks, disease )

Nancy
- 193 days ago - bandepleteduranium.org
The resolution was tabled by the Non-Aligned Movement and, as with previous years, the text was actively opposed by the US, UK and France. First Committee resolutions are voted on for a second time early in December by the full UN General Assembly.
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Tell the UN to Take Responsibility for Cholera in Haiti ACTION
World  (tags: Haiti, cholera, UN, Clinton, Rice, disease, government, ethics, death )

Nancy
- 304 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Bill Clinton, who serves as UN Special Envoy to Haiti, has admitted that UN troops were the "proximate cause" of the epidemic, and US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has acknowledged that the UN played a role. Yet, the UN refuses to accept formal respons
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World Leaders: End Hunger By 2015! ACTOIN
World  (tags: food, illness, disease, family, world hunger, nutrition, occupy food )

Nancy
- 359 days ago - thebreastcancersite.com
Hunger is the world's number one health risk, killing more people than tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS combined. Over 15,000 people will die today of hunger alone. If we don't address the ever-growing issue of world hunger, trying to solve other problems
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Help Moms Fight Malaria ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
World  (tags: humans, disease, children, Malaria, protection )

Cher
- 399 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Malaria takes the life of one child every 45 seconds. But something amazing is happening around the world to fight back against the disease. When children and family members get sick, their families can afford to pay for their treatment.
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Beyond Kony: Spotlight On Central Africa ACTION
World  (tags: Kony, human rights, Congo, Sudan, Uganda, petition, family, disease )

Nancy
- 426 days ago - thehungersite.com
We condemn the actions of Joseph Kony; and at the same time, emphasize the need for attention on the other important issues there -- like malaria, access to clean water, and nodding disease, which ails thousands of children.
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Haiti Cholera Victims Demand UN Damages
World  (tags: health, disease, cholera outbrea, law, humans, world, UnitedNations, Refugees&Relief, government, death, crime, unitednations )

Cal
- 558 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Lawyers representing 5,000 cholera victims in Haiti are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from the UN over the epidemic.
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ACTION ALERT: Save Indigenous Peoples - Tribes and Campaigns
World  (tags: ACTION ALERT: Sign letter, Campaign, Human rights, Indigenous peoples, tribes, culture, conservation, disease, rainforests, survival, Africa, Amazon, Brazil, India, Peru, world )

Rosemary
- 635 days ago - survivalinternational.org
This action alert from Survival International asks human beings on our planet to save Indigenous Tribal peoples at risk for extinction due to diseases, logging and lack of protection. Please click on every tribe and simply sign your name for each tribe.
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50 Famous & Successful People Who Are Diabetic
World  (tags: Diabetes, famous people, disease, life, Successful People )

Anna
- 851 days ago - nursingschools.net
Diabetes is a serious, sometimes life-threatening disease that affects millions of people, famous and successful included. But suffering from this disease doesn't mean your life has to stop where it is-many people have gone on to live full,
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Sri Lanka: Australian Complicity in Genocide
World  (tags: Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamil, Tamils, HumanRights, humanrights, conflict, asia, Australia, government, capitalism, racism, abuse, politics, corruption, freedoms, disease, hunger, internment camps, concentration camps, death camps, genocide, holocaust )

Simon
- 1275 days ago - greenleft.org.au
Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil people has not ended. 250,000 Tamil people face nightmare conditions detained behind barbed wire in violation of international law, in concentration camps where they are killed, or subjected to torture, rape, disease, etc
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Sign Petition: Tell Congress to End Child Hunger
World  (tags: world, global, crisis, poor, children, families, food, security, act, starvation, disease, health, nutrition, illness, humans, death, society, malnutrition, poverty, sadness )

Tom
- 1370 days ago - action.savethechildren.org
The global food crisis may be out of the headlines for the moment, but for poor children and families, the emergency remains urgent and real. Please co-sponsor the The Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2817).
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Britons Outraged Over US Conservatives Criticism of British Health Care
World  (tags: britain, nhs, conservatives, lies, socialist, healthcare, government, public, option, republicans, corruption, dishonesty, cover-up, americans, abuse, illness, disease, treatment, prevention, medicine, protection, safety )

Tom
- 1371 days ago - voanews.com
Britons are outraged and speaking out in response to comments among Conservatives in the United States attacking Britain's national health care system as socialist, evil and Orwellian. Such criticism has sparked an outpouring of NHS support in Britain.
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Obama: `Too Many Still Die From Diseases That Shouldn`t Kill Them...`
World  (tags: Africa, health, deaths, disease )

Sally Ann
- 1406 days ago - newsblaze.com
During his first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa as president, Barack Obama today gave an historic speech before Ghana's parliament. Devoting one quarter of his speech to address the deadly public health voids in many African countries.
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Sign Petition: Provide Water for the World
World  (tags: world, clean, water, sanitation, poor, health, prevention, protection, risks, safety, illness, health, humans, disease, children, rights, technology, science, government, obama )

Tom
- 1438 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In his Inaugural Address, President Obama said, "let clean waters flow." With those words, he brought recognition to the suffering of 884 million people who do not have access to clean water and 2.5 billion without adequate sanitation.
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Take a Stand Against Wrongful Eviction
World  (tags: world, poverty, poor, shelter, homeless, water, sanitation, disease, suffering, health, harassment, corruption, discrimination, women, children, human, rights, safety, prevention, culture, humans, government )

Tom
- 1438 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
For the more than 1.6 billion people suffering from some sort of shelter deprivation in the world, that future is bleak. Without access to adequate shelter, clean water or sanitation, upwards of 10 million people die each year from preventable diseases.
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