Be the best of whatever you are!

Be the best of whatever you are!

These days, People say this generation is the richest generation.

In a twinkle many things have developed. And make our life comfortable.

Ironically there’s many different kind of poverty.

Not just physical thing.

Poor Poor Poor

That’s because of relative poverty.

Not because I am poor but because I feel poor.

Thus, not because I face, the feeling makes me poor.

So I want to be an affluent person not physically, but from the heart.

Be the best of whatever you are!

Douglas Malloch

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley…but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a bush, be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can’t be a muskie, then just be a bass…

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew.

There’s something for all of us here,

There’s big work to do, and there’s lesser to do,

And the task you must do is near.

If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail,

If you can’t be a sun, be a star;

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail…

Be the best of whatever you are!

New Year's Day Quotes

Happy New Year

Do you plan anything for 2015 year?

the following quote is written by Charles Lamb. he write a quote for new year's day.

He said New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

I think How we make a plan and spend a New year's day is very important like each man's birth day.

Who is Charles Lamb?

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

He also wrote a number of poems, and was part of a literary circle in England, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, whom he befriended. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".

i got this information from wikipedia

He was a writer and he wrote many poems. and he get an effect from his religious life. He described the New Testament as his "best guide" for life, and where he talked about how he used to read the Psalms for one or two hours without getting tired.

I also Christian but i didn't live my life like him. i agree the New Testament is best guide for one's life. but i don't spend many time to read the New Testament. 

So this year i will make my Must do it list including reading the New Testament.

I hope everyone spend their 2015 more meaningfully.

Dalai Lama concedes he may be the last

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said he realises that he may be the last to hold the title.
The Dalai Lama suggested the UK had taken a soft line with China over Hong Kong's recent student-led pro-democracy protests for financial reasons.
He also said the international community needed to do more to encourage democracy in China.
"China very much wants to join the mainstream world economy," he said.
"They should be welcome, but at the same time the free world has a moral responsibility to bring China into mainstream democracy - for China's own interests."

But he told the BBC it would be better that the centuries-old tradition ceased "at the time of a popular Dalai Lama".

'Moral responsibility'The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet.Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize-winner as a "splittist", though he now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet.In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme, during a visit to Rome for the 14th World Summit of Nobel Laureates, the 79-year-old spiritual leader conceded that he may not have a successor.Whether another Dalai Lama came after him would depend on the circumstances after his death and was "up to the Tibetan people", he said.He pointed out that the role no longer included political responsibilities; in 2011 the Dalai Lama handed these to an elected leader of the Tibetan government in exile, Lobsang Sangay.The move was seen by many as a way the Dalai Lama could ensure the Tibetan community would have an elected leader in place outside the control of China.China has said repeatedly that it will choose the next Dalai Lama."The Dalai Lama institution will cease one day. These man-made institutions will cease," the Dalai Lama told the BBC."There is no guarantee that some stupid Dalai Lama won't come next, who will disgrace himself or herself. That would be very sad. So, much better that a centuries-old tradition should cease at the time of a quite popular Dalai Lama."Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure is the Panchen Lama - a figure who is meant to play a key role in the choice of the next Dalai Lama.A young boy was named as Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama in 1995, but China rejected this and chose its own candidate. The whereabouts of the Dalai Lama's choice are unknown.

upper articles' copyright is from BBC NEWs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-30510018

Still many countries have conflicts. To solve the conflicts, all of us should be the one. 

Each country have their own benefits and own profits but by that thinking, all over the world cant be the one. 

I hope China and Tibet's relation would be softly restored.

Who is Malcom X? Nonviolence

Who is Malcom X ?

Malcolm X born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

Malcolm X was effectively orphaned early in life. His father was killed when he was six and his mother was placed in a mental hospital when he was thirteen, after which he lived in a series of foster homes.

In 1946, at age 20, he went to prison for larceny and breaking and entering. While in prison he became a member of the Nation of Islam, and after his parole in 1952 quickly rose to become one of its leaders. For a dozen years he was the public face of the controversial group; in keeping with the Nation's teachings he espoused black supremacy, advocated the separation of black and white Americans and scoffed at the civil rights movement's emphasis on integration.

By March 1964, Malcolm X had grown disillusioned with the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad. He ultimately repudiated the Nation and its teachings and embraced Sunni Islam. After a period of travel in Africa and the Middle East, he returned to the United States to found Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. While continuing to emphasize Pan-Africanism, black self-determination, and black self-defense, he disavowed racism, saying, "I did many things as a [Black] Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then ... pointed in a certain direction and told to march".

In February 1965, shortly after repudiating the Nation of Islam, he was assassinated by three of its members. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published shortly after his death, is considered one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.

I got the information and image from Wickipedia

Malcom X's quotes

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

-Media do not forget their power. even now, many people watch their TV, read newspaper and search the internet news.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

-Everyone want to have freedom. but to make this world peaceful, no one is excluded from the Peace.

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United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

United Nations Millennium Goals 

Background
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

Target 1.A:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day

• The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.
• The global poverty rate at $1.25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the 1990 rate. 700 million fewer people lived in conditions of extreme poverty in 2010 than in 1990. However, at the global level 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty.

Target 1.B:
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

• Globally, 384 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty line in 2011—a reduction of 294 million since 2001.
• The gender gap in employment persists, with a 24.8 percentage point difference between men and women in the employment-to-population ratio in 2012.

Target 1.C:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

• The hunger reduction target should be almost met by 2015.
• Globally, about 842 million people are estimated to be undernourished.
• More than 99 million children under age five are still undernourished and underweight.

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Target 2.A:
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

• Enrolment in primary education in developing regions reached 90 per cent in 2010, up from 82 per cent in 1999, which means more kids than ever are attending primary school.
• In 2011, 57 million children of primary school age were out of school.
• Even as countries with the toughest challenges have made large strides, progress on primary school enrolment has slowed. One in ten children of primary school age was still out of school in 2012.
• Gender gaps in youth literacy rates are also narrowing. Globally, 781 million adults and 126 million youth (aged 15 to 24) worldwide lack basic reading and writing skills, and more than 60 per cent of them are women.

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Target 3.A:
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

• The world has achieved equality in primary education between girls and boys, but few countries have achieved that target at all levels of education.
• The political participation of women keeps increasing. In January 2014, in 46 countries more than 30 per cent of members of parliament in at least one chamber were women.
• In many countries, gender inequality persists and women continue to face discrimination in access to education, work and economic assets, and participation in government. For example, in every developing region, women tend to hold less secure jobs than men, with fewer social benefits.
• Violence against women continues to undermine efforts to reach all goals.
• Poverty is a major barrier to secondary education, especially among older girls.
• Women are largely relegated to more vulnerable forms of employment.

GOAL 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Target 4.A:
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

• Despite population growth, the number of deaths in children under five worldwide declined from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013, which translates into about 17,000 fewer children dying each day.

• Since 2000, measles vaccines have averted over 14 million deaths.
• Despite determined global progress in reducing child deaths, an increasing proportion of child deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. Four out of every five deaths of children under age five occur in these regions.
• As the rate of under-five deaths overall declines, the proportion that occurs during the first month after birth is increasing.
• Children born into poverty are almost twice as likely to die before the age of five as those from wealthier families.
• Children of educated mothers—even mothers with only primary schooling—are more likely to survive than children of mothers with no education.

GOAL 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

Target 5.A:
Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

• The maternal mortality ratio dropped by 45 per cent between 1990 and 2013, from 380 to 210 deaths per 100,000 live births. All regions have made progress but accelerated interventions are required in order meet the target.
• In Eastern Asia, Northern Africa and Southern Asia, maternal mortality has declined by around two-thirds.
• The proportion of deliveries in developing regions attended by skilled health personnel rose from 56 in 1990 to 68 per cent in 2012.
• The maternal mortality ratio in developing regions is still 14 times higher than in the developed regions.
• The rural-urban gap in skilled care during childbirth has narrowed.

Target 5.B:
Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

• More women are receiving antenatal care. In developing regions, antenatal care increased from 65  per cent in 1990 to 83 per cent in 2012.
• Only half of women in developing regions receive the recommended amount of health care they need.
• Fewer teens are having children in most developing regions, but progress has slowed.
• The large increase in contraceptive use in the 1990s was not matched in the 2000s.
• The need for family planning is slowly being met for more women, but demand is increasing at a rapid pace.
• Official Development Assistance for reproductive health care and family planning remains low.

GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

Target 6.A:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

• New HIV infections continue to decline in most regions.
• The number of new HIV infections per 100 adults (aged 15 to 49) declined by 44 per cent between 2001 and 2012.
• An estimated 2.3 million cases of people of all ages are newly infected and 1.6 million people died from AID-related causes.
• Comprehensive knowledge of HIV transmission remains low among young people, along with condom use.
• About 210,000 children died of AIDS-related causes in 2012, compared to 320,000 in 2005.

Target 6.B:
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

• Antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV were delivered to 9.5 million people in developing regions in 2012.
• Over 900,000 pregnant women living with HIV globally were receiving antiretroviral prophylaxis or treatment by December 2012.

Target 6.C:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

• Between 2000 and 2012, the substantial expansion of malaria interventions led to a 42 per cent decline in malaria mortality rates globally.
• In the decade since 2000, 3.3 million deaths from malaria were averted, and the lives of three million young children were saved.
• Thanks to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Treatment for tuberculosis has saved some 22  million lives between 1995 and 2012.

GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Target 7.A:
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

• Forests are a safety net for the poor, but they continue to disappear at an alarming rate.
• Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by more than 50  per cent since 1990.
• In the 26 years since the adoption of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, there has been a reduction of over 98 per cent in the consumption of ozone-depleting substances.
• Afforestation and the natural expansion of forests have reduced the net loss of forest from an average of 8.3 million hectares annually in the 1990s to an average of 5.2 million hectares annually between 2000 and 2010.

Target 7.B:
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

• Protected ecosystems covered 14 per cent of land and coastal marine areas worldwide by 2012.

Target 7.C:
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

• The world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule.
• Between 1990 and 2012, 2.3 billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources.
• Over a quarter of the world’s population has gained access to improved sanitation since 1990, yet one billion people still resort to open defecation.
• The vast majority – 82 per cent – of people practicing open defecation now live in middle-income, populous countries.
• In 2012, 748 million people remained without access to an improved source of drinking water.
• Despite progress, 2.5 billion in developing countries still lack access to improved sanitation facilities.

Target 7.D:
Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

• The target was met well in advance of the 2020 deadline. More than 200 million of these people gained access to improved water sources, improved sanitation facilities, or durable or less crowded housing, thereby exceeding the MDG target
• 863 million people are estimated to be living in slums in 2012 compared to 650 million in 1990 and 760 million in 2000

GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

Target 8.A:
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

• Official development assistance hit a record high of $134.8 billion in 2013.

• Aid shifted away from the poorest countries where attainment of the MDGs often lags the most.

Target 8.B:
Address the special needs of least developed countries

• Net bilateral aid to Africa (where 34 of the 48 least developed countries are located) fell by 5.6 per cent in 2013, to $28.9 billion in real terms.
• Eighty per cent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free.

Target 8.C:
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

• Aid to landlocked developing countries fell in 2010 for the first time in a decade, while aid to small island developing States increased substantially.

Target 8.D:
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries

• The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about 3 per cent of export revenue, which was a near 75 per cent drop since 2000.

Target 8.E:
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

• Resources available for providing essential medicines through some disease-specific global health funds increased in 2011, despite the global economic downturn.
• There has been little improvement in recent years in improving availability and affordability of essential medicines in developing countries.

Target 8.F:
In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

• Two-thirds of the world’s Internet users are in developing regions, where the number of Internet users doubled between 2009 and 2014.
• In 2014, Internet use penetration in developing countries grew by 8.7 per cent, twice as fast as in the developed world where its usage rose by 3.3 per cent.
• In Africa, almost 20 per cent of the population are online, up from 10 per cent in 2010.
• Thirty per cent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years.
• More than four billion people do not use the Internet, and 90 per cent of them are from the developing world.

All of this goals are very important to our society. 

Every leaders in all over the world should give efforts to achieve this goals.

but I think many people don't know about this MDG campaign.

this will be made by everyone. and everyone need to feel that these kinds of goals make our society more equal.

If you want more information, go to the this site ! http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals

the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

2014 Theme: Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year since 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 47/196, designated this day to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries. Fighting poverty remains at the core of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the development of the post-2015 development agenda.

The 2014 theme recognises and underscores the demanding challenge of identifying and securing the participation of those experiencing extreme poverty and social exclusion in the “Post-2015 Development Agenda” that will replace the Millennium Development Goals.

The official commemoration on 17 October at UN Headquarters will be an occasion to recognize people living in poverty as critical partners for fighting the development challenges we face. The commemoration at the UN is organized in partnership with the International Movement ATD Fourth World, the NGO Sub-committee for the Eradication of Poverty and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, supported by the Missions of France and Burkina Faso to the UN.

One of the initiatives planned is a ten-part exhibition of collective artwork by people living in poverty that will be mounted in the buildings of the United Nations from 13 October 2014.

There will be a panel discussion on 16 October 2014 (1.15-2.30 pm) at the United Nations Headquarters entitled “Beijing+20 - Leaving No One Behind: Women, Poverty, and Participation”, which will explore the disproportionate effects of poverty on women and women's contributions to ending poverty.

Help the United Nations to raise awareness about the progress made and the challenges that remain for people living in poverty. Use #EndPoverty to post your messages about the MDGs and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Background
The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to 17 October 1987. On that day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris , where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, to honour the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. They proclaimed that poverty is a violation of human rights and affirmed the need to come together to ensure that these rights are respected. These convictions are inscribed in a commemorative stone unveiled on this day. Since then, people of all backgrounds, beliefs and social origins have gathered every year on October 17th to renew their commitment and show their solidarity with the poor. Replicas of the commemorative stone have been unveiled around the world and serve as a gathering place to celebrate the Day. One such replica is located in the garden of United Nations Headquarters and is the site of the annual commemoration organized by the United Nations Secretariat in New York .

Through resolution 47/196 adopted on 22 December 1992, the General Assembly declared 17 October as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and invited all States to devote the Day to presenting and promoting, as appropriate in the national context, concrete activities with regard to the eradication of poverty and destitution. The resolution further invites intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to assist States, at their request, in organizing national activities for the observance of the Day, and requests the Secretary-General to take, within existing resources, the measures necessary to ensure the success of the Day's observance by the United Nations.

17 October presents an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognize that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty. Participation of the poor themselves has been at the center of the Day's celebration since its very beginning. The commemoration of October 17th also reflects the willingness of people living in poverty to use their expertise to contribute to the eradication of poverty.

 When i read this book, I think starving people in the world caused by our greed.

poverty starving 

We can solve this problem!

Children's Rights & Kailash Satyarthi (Novel Peace Prize Winner)

Novel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian children's rights activist and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (lit. Save the Childhood Movement) in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries.

He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

These days, Human rights become more important and Children's rights also very important issue.

He is focus on Children's right. especially he insist that many companies and countries should have interesting about children's forced labors.

He rescued 80.000 children from forced labors and give opportunity to get education. In the world, there are still a lot of children who suffering from violence and labors.

We also think about this problems and participate in movement for Children's rights.