A world without water

"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible over come the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it".
~ Lao tzu
Poverty, diseases, hunger, inequality you name it. There are lots of things wrong with the world and each has devastating effects on one billion people. But do you know that many of the world's seemingly impossible problems facing our world's poor are linked with lack of clean water. Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. It is the most important gifts to mankind. Our life revolves around water and is is essential for our health. We don't only use waterfor drinking but we also use it in our daily life for other purposes like washing, cleaning and mainly for agriculture.

Have you ever wondered what a world without water will look like? What would have happened if there was actually no water? Probably, not because you have access to clean water and could do what ever you want to do with it. But do all the people have water? No they don't?  More than a third of the world's population don't have access to clean water and good sanitation facilities. Nearly one billion do not have access to clean drinking water and are forced to drink and use contaminated water which cause many diseases. More than 3 million people die everyday from diseases spread through dirty water and poor sanitation facilities and 5000 of these people includes children. Lack of clean water in house holds causes millions of children in the developing world to suffer needlessly  from disease.

There are at least 120 million school age children not in school and majority of them are girls. Lack of separate and decent water facilities at school often forces girls to drop out of primary school. This lack of education early in life often consigns girls to poverty or dependance later in life. Children in poor environments often carry 1000 parasatic worms in their bodies at a time. There are many countries in this type of situation and these countries includes: Bolivia, India, Pakistan, Africa, Nigeria and many more.

The question is: Why do many people lack water? I think that many countires who have access to clean water just waste too much water. In rich countries people waste tons and tons of water when bathing, brushing teeth, washing clothes and even when washing hands. A minimum 2 500 000 litres or 2.5 mega litres of water is wasted in a large swimming pool. 

Many people can't  afford clean water.  It's just too expensive.  In many countries water bills are too expensive people with low income people can't afford water bill and if they don't pay the bill they get no water and this forces them to drink contaminated water. Women and girls in poorer countries spend half of their day just fetching water from distance for drinking and for household uses instead of studying or attending school.

The other reason why people don't have clean water is due to human activities.  Humans are harming the planet in many ways carbon dioxide, gasoline emitted from transportation, methane gas, deforestationand many other harmful pollutants are destroying the environment. This harmful pollutants cause the clean water to pollute. These harmful pollutants cause acid rain. Acid rain occurs when all the harmful pollutants combine with the rain and form acid rain. Acid rain is very harmful for the environment it can damge the stone work and is harmful for marine life. Acid rain causes marine life to die when the acid rain fall in the rivers or seas it pollutes the water allowing the death of many sea animals. Acid rain also pollutes the clean water once it falls on the ground and if anyone drinks the water they can become ill but in most cases people die and who is behind this all it's us. We all are destroying our own home in many ways. We are producing harmful gases by ourselves and are allowing them to damage our own home. All of these harmful pollutants that we produce causes much more harm then we can even imagine. 

There are many more countries dealing with a lack of clean water. India is one of the most famous countries in Asia. It is beautiful country and a place to see but many of India's cities don't have clean water either. Rajasthan is city near the desert.  Part of the reason people in Rajasthan do not have access to clean water is that there was a continuous drought for last 20 years. Water supply gets even worse when it is summer. Four towns get drinking water supply once in 96 hours, eleven such towns get water once in 72 hours, and 60 towns get the supply once every alternate day. This is the situation prevailing in Rajathan. The state public health does care about the rising water crisis in Rajathan but when it comes to the government it keeps postponing meetings. People are tired from all of this and want to take an action but don't have enough power to do so.

People who don't have access to
clean drinking water in India.

                                                  

Womens fetching water from a well for drinking

and for daily uses.

                               

                                          

  Water is a wonderful gift for us and you know what happens when there is no water for you. We are lucky that we have access to clean drinking water but there are many more people in the world who do not have clean water but we can help them and there are many ways we can help. We should stop wasting water and should only use how much we need. We can donate money to the water projects or we can go to those countries to help the people. We should try not to produce any pollution as it leads to water contamination. We should make other people aware of what is happening in those countries so they can help too.

 Apart from these there are many more ways we can help those people, so let's start today and we can make a big change. 

"Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water"

~Albert szengt-Gyorgyi

References: Wikipedia
Google free images

Protesters all over the world

Every human being is equal. Not all people are treated equally.When people are not treated fairly, one thing they can do is protest.  Protests are happening in many Arab countries.  This is called the "Arab Spring". The Arab Spring protests are taking place in Syria, U.A.E., Libya, Pakistan, Iran and even China.

In Pakistan, people are protesting for their right of freedom. The people are requesting U.S.A to stop doing drone attacks.U.S.A is doing drone attacks only because there are terrorists in Pakistan but drone attacks don't only effect terrorists they also effect innocent civilians. Rather than drone attacks there is also some thing known as Taget killing. There was a dramatic increase in targeted killings in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Thousands of people die in target killing everyday and target killing is done by terrorists and drone attacks are done only to kill terrorists and the only people who are most hurt are civilians. Many Political people were also killed in Pakistan. At least ten journalists were killed in Pakistan during the last year. Saleem shahzad, a reporter for the Hong-Kong based Asia times online and for Adnkronos International, the Italian agency disappeared from central Islamabd on the evening May 29 last year and his body was found two days later from 130 km southeast.

Protesters in Pakistani streets. People are protesting about the attacks which are killing thousands of innocent civilians.

The people are doing a protest and are requesting to stop the drone attacks. The protest involves both men and women.

 The government is taking appropriate measures to prevent target killing. Ranger police which is a  special task force has been assigned a duty to stop these kinds of incidents. Process is a bit slow but it's working. Government is trying to negotiate with the other parties to form a coalition to find a long term solution to stop target killing.

In Syria people are also protesting. They are protesting for their rights too because many of their rights are taken away and some of those rights includes: Personal freedom, right to meet anyone else and the right to travel but instead of helping those people the president of Syria called the army forces to stop the protesters from doing the protest. The army threw many people into jail and about 3500 people were killed and many more were injured.

Conclusion: People in these countries are getting awareness through print and electronic media. They are getting aware of their rights that resulted in Syria, Pakistan, Libya and many more countries around the world. In shape of demonstrations that proved successful in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Chande process is slow but it's finally working and a day will come when the people will have option to choose the best regime.

Protesters in Syrian streets.

.References: Google free images and human rights watch

SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS

                In this post I am going to talk about some of the solutions to the human rights problems in Pakistan?  What role does government play in human rights?  How does the government make money to help with poverty, shelter, jobs, transportation, food, etc.

                I think that there are many solutions to the problems if government and people try to help.  The government plays a vital role in human rights.  They can reduce poverty by making goods like groceries  cheaper. This can help people and they can buy more food for their families to survive.

               Last year in Pakistan there was a terrible flood which caused the destruction of the houses of many families. Millions of people lost their houses and many of them lost their loved ones.  Now those people are living in tents like a camp.  The government is helping them but not so much.  Almost everyone is jobless in       Pakistan.   Government should make more job vacancies so that the jobless people have a job and can make money for their families.  Everyone should be well paid so that they can make ends meet for their families.

             Government can help by providing more and better transportion. The government is making more schools in villages where there are no schools. They can help more by decreasing the fees of private and public schools.

            We can help those people and the people that were affected by the flood by donating them money.  Rich countries can help them by donating them money and food.

Human rights in Pakistan

I went to Pakistan (a country in continent of Asia)for a visit for 1 month.I saw many people there living without rights.They just didn't have one problem, they had lot's of problems like problems about transportation,shelter,food,education etc.It wasn't so happy to see people living without these rights but they had no other choice.

FOOD:Food was one of the major problem in Pakistan.There were lot's of people there living without food.Many of them even didn't have fresh water to drink.The things and grocery in Pakistan is really expensive many people can't afford to buy enough food for their family to survive.

SHELTER:Shelter is also a major problem in Pakistan.In villages people live in houses made out of mud but many of them don't even have mud houses they just live in tents which they set outside.I travelled and visited to so many places and cities in Pakistan and saw many people living out in tents. It was very sad.This is because the houses there in Pakistan are very very  expensive.

TRANSPORTATION:Transportation is not very good in Pakistan.  Most  of the people who don't have any transport to travel,  needs to travel in public transport which is sort of good but there aren't much facilities in public transport. I also have travelled in public transport but the journey wasn't so good they just overload the bus with  many people. Some people keep standing all the time. There is not even space to put a foot in the bus. Women are standing and their children are crying. The bus ticket is very expensive but the people stand's no choice.

EDUCATION:Not everyone has a chance to go to school in Pakistan especially girls don't get to go to school. Half of the  children don't get to go to school,  instead of studying they do work.One of the main reasons that the children don't get to go to school is poverty.Most of the children work to feed their family and manage their home expenses and the other reason of not getting education is the school expenses.Some of the schools are very expensive that poor people can't afford.

The U.N. declaration

The United nations  is an international  organization Whose stated aims are facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, progress, human rights and  achievement of world peace.The UN was founded  in 1945 after world war 2 to replace the league of nations to stop war between countries and to provide a platform for dialogue. There are five permanent members of UN security council: China, France, Russian federation, the United Kingdom and United states of America the rest of the countries are all non-permanent.UN and its specialized agencies decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular throughout meetings held in the year.

The United Nations Declaration Of Human Rights actually has 30 articles.

I have chosed five articles which I am going to explain:

In article 1 its clearly stated that every human is born free that means no one is slave in this world and no one can boss anyone but there are lots of people in this world who are slaves and there are lots of children who are working as child labour instead of getting education which is against the rules.So we all should try to give them their rights which they don't have.

In article 3 it is written that all the people have right to life,security and liberty but in some countries there is no security for people for example in some countries people are not allowed to practice their religion and if they do they are killed which is against the rules.

In article 4 it says that no one should be treated like a slave and no one should be traded as slaves but in most of the countries poor people are treated like slaves from rich people but actually they all are same . In many countries class divide is a common thing they treat poor people like slaves and rich people like kings but apart from this there are many people who sale other people and trade them for money but a life can never be paid if you give all of the money you can but still a life can't be paid.

In article 13 it is stated that every person can leave their country whenever they want and no one has the right to stop them. They can leave their city in their country and can move to any other city in their country whenever they want but in most of the countries some people are not allowed to leave their home which exactly means same as no freedom . This means that someone else is bossing them and it is against the rules.


In article 16  it says that every men and women of all ages have the right to marry and towards a healthy family. In many countries the womens are forced to marry the men they don't want to they are forced to live the rest of their lives with the person whom they don't want to live with.Many of them are not willing to marry but they are pressured and forced to marry. According to the rules both the men and the women should be willing to marry each other if one is not than its his or her right not to marry.A family is a natural group unit of society and should be protected by the  state and society.

In article 27 it's written that every person has the choice to rest whenever he wants and no one can make him work and every person has a limited  time to work and no one can force him to work extra but in most of the countries it's a major problem that people are treated like slaves and are forced to work in return of less wages which is not enough for their family.Most of them work day and night and get no holidays which is against the law because everyone needs rest to stay healthy.

References:Google
Wikipedia

My blogging purpose

I will be blogging about human rights for the rest of the year.  I am basically going to focus on international rights and the many human rights crisis in the world.  The purpose of my blog is to write about the people who don't have their rights and show my readers the poverty, hunger and the crisis in other countries.

In order to start blogging about human rights I am going to learn.  I will be learning about human rights in other countries.  Are all people in the world getting their rights?  Is the United Nations Organization doing it's job?  I will also be learning about the major crisis in the world and the way we could help the people.

Secondly, I am going to communicate to the world and show or tell them my thoughts.  I will be using different ways to communicate.  I will be communicating with people through my writing and my multi-media presentations.

Thinking is an important factor of writing in order to make your writing interesting. You have to do a lot of thinking.  Thinking involves questions and decisions so I am going to make decisions based on good questions.

I will conect with the people by joining their blog, by reading their blog and by making them join my blog.

I will try my best to change the world with my ideas for human rights.  Changing the world is not easy.  I will provide my readers with enough information and examples so that they start thinking about the rights they have but other people don't and how it feels to them.

If it were my home

If it were my home is an assignment in which we choose 10 countries and describe which one of the 10 countries is our most desirable country to live in to which one is our least desirable country.Here is a video showing which is my most desirable country in which I would like to live in.Hope you enjoy it.

If it were my home

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