Friday Forum Model: What does world wealth distribution indicate about first world ethics and morality particularly freedom of expression, liberty of conscience

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Friday Forum ModelWhat does world wealth
distribution indicate about first world ethics
and morality particularly freedom of expression,
liberty of conscience
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FDR on 6 January 1941

• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights
  everywhere, particularly freedom of expression,
  liberty of conscience, freedom from armed
  aggression, and freedom from want, which,
  translated into world terms, means economic
  understandings which will secure to every nation
  a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants
  everywhere in the world. These four Human Rights
  are attainable in our own time and generation.

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The Most Underfulfilled Human Right

• Everyone has the right to a standard of living
  adequate for the health and well-being of himself
  and of his family, including food, clothing,
  housing and medical care and necessary social
  services, and the right to security in the event
  of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood,
  old age or other lack of livelihood in
  circumstances beyond his control Article 25(1)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Human Cost of Poverty Today
 
 

• Among ca. 6800 million human beings, about
• 800 million are undernourished (UNDP 2007, p.
  90), 1 bn now (FAO)
• 2000 million lack access to essential drugs
  (www.fic.nih.gov/about/plan/exec_summary.htm),
• 1085 million lack access to safe drinking water
  (UNDP 2007, p. 254),
• 1000 million lack adequate shelter (UNDP 1998, p.
  49),
• 2000 million have no electricity (UNDP 2007, p.
  305),
• 2600 million lack adequate sanitation (UNDP 2007,
  p. 254),
• 774 million adults are illiterate
  (www.uis.unesco.org),
• 211 million children (aged 5 to 17) do wage
  work outside their household often under
  slavery-like and hazardous conditions as
  soldiers, prostitutes or domestic servants, or in
  agriculture, construction, textile or carpet
  production (ILO The End of Child Labour, Within
  Reach, 2006, pp. 9, 11, 17-18).

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30 Percent of all Human Deaths

• some 18 (out of 57) million per year or 50
  000 daily are due to poverty-related causes,
  cheaply preventable through safe drinking water,
  better sanitation, more adequate nutrition,
  rehydration packs, vaccines or other medicines.
  In thousands
• diarrhea (1798) and malnutrition (485),
• perinatal (2462) and maternal conditions (510),
• childhood diseases (1124 mainly measles),
• tuberculosis (1566), meningitis (173), hepatitis
  (157),
• malaria (1272) and tropical diseases (129),
• respiratory infections (3963 mainly
  pneumonia),
• HIV/AIDS (2777), sexually transmitted diseases
  (180)
• (WHO World Health Report 2004, 120-5).

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Millions of Deaths
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Where in the world is the wealth?
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Distribution on Wealth Compared to Population, by
Region
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Who has the energy?
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How much do families around the world spend on
food each week?
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Italy The Manzo family of SicilyFood
expenditure 214.36 Euros or 260.11
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Germany The Melander family of BargteheideFood
expenditure 375.39 Euros or 500.07
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United States The Revis family of North
CarolinaFood expenditure 341.98
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Mexico The Casales family of CuernavacaFood
expenditure 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or 189.09
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Poland The Sobczynscy family of
Konstancin-JeziornaFood expenditure 582.48
Zlotys or 151.27
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Egypt The Ahmed family of CairoFood
expenditure 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or 68.53
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Ecuador The Ayme family of TingoFood
expenditure for one week 31.55
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Bhutan The Namgay family of Shingkhey
VillageFood expenditure for one week 224.93
ngultrum or 5.03
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Chad The Aboubakar family of Breidjing CampFood
expenditure for one week 685 CFA Francs or 1.23
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Water, Water Everywhere???
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The worlds water resources
Oceans 97.5

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Physical, economic water scarcity.. freedom
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HR and Human Responsibilities

• Insofar as HR deficits are not humanly avoidable,
  no one is responsible for them.
• Insofar as HR deficits are avoidable through
  active intervention, there are unmet
  responsibilities to protect and to fulfill
  (positive duties).
• Insofar as HR deficits are caused or aggravated
  through active intervention, there are HR
  violations, unmet responsibilities to respect
  (negative duties).

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The ClaimToday, most premature human deaths
and other deprivations are due to injustice for
which we (citizens of the more powerful
countries) are co-responsible in violation of
basic negative duties of justice.
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We are knowingly leading lives that create
injustice in the world.