Never before has change come so rapidly, on such a global scale and with such global visibility

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Urbanization in Our Global Community
Presented by Lauryn A. Migenes University of
Central Florida
EdgeMUN 2007 Conference February 17, 2007
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Never before has change come so rapidly, on such
a global scale and with such global visibility
Nelson Mandela
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Introduction

• Mega City
• Millennium Development Goals
• What Should Happen

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The Birth of the MegaCity

• What is a MegaCity?
• A megacity is defined as a city with an
  estimated population of more than 10 million
  people

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What does this mean?

• Building Shortages
• Crime
• Disease
• Health Care
• Garbage
• Water Issues

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Millennium Development Goals

1. Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty 2.
Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote
gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce
child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6.
Combat AIDS / HIV / malaria 7. Ensure
environmental sustainability 8. Develop a
global partnership for development
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1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

• Reduce by half the proportion
• of people living on less than one
• U.S. dollar a day
• Reduce by half the proportion
• of people who suffer from hunger
• Increase the amount of
• food for those who suffer
• from hunger

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Statistics of Poverty

• More than 1 billion people around the
• world live on less than 1 a day
• A child dies every three
• seconds from AIDS and
• extreme poverty
• More than 800 million 300 million of them
• people go to bed are children
• hungry every day
• 300 million of them
• are children
• Four out of every ten people in the
  world don't have access to a simple
  latrine

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Causes and Effects of Poverty

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2. Achieve Universal Primary Education

• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full
  course of primary schooling
• Increased enrollment must be accompanied by
  efforts to ensure that all children remain in
  school and receive a high-quality education

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3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
  secondary education preferably by 2005,
• and at all levels by 2015

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4. Reduce Child Mortality

• Reduce the mortality rate among children under
  five by two thirds

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5. Improve Maternal Health

• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality
  ratio

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6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria

• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV /
  AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of
  malaria and other major diseases

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7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• Integrate the principles of sustainable
  development into country policies and programmes
  reverse loss of environmental resources
• Reduce by half the proportion of people without
  sustainable access to safe drinking water
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at
  least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

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8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development

• Develop an open trading and financial system
• Address the least developed countries special
  needs
• Debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries
• Official Development Assistance
• Essential drugs in developing countries

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Quick Fixes

• Access to information on sexual and
  reproduction health
• Action against domestic violence
• Deworming school children in affected areas
• Drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria
• Eliminating school fees
• Free school meals for schoolchildren
• Legislation for Womens rights
• Planting trees
• Mosquito nets
• Access to electricity, water and sanitation

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Conclusion

• We are
• six
• billion voices
• and
• this world
• will do
• what we say

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• Thank you