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  Pressing Global Issues Research

   
Step 1: Suggest
A chapter of the Student World Assembly highlights a Pressing Global Issue.
Step 2: Read
The chapter provides the general membership with news reports, articles, and scholarly resources on the issue from all over the world.
Step 3: Discuss
After reading about the issue, members are urged to discuss the issue with other members of Student World Assembly on the Online Discussion Forums.

   
Pressing Global Issues for the Year:  2008
 » Poverty
Pressing Global Issues for the Year:  2007
 » Human Trafficking
Pressing Global Issues for the Year:  2006
 » Access to Healthcare
 » Child Abuse/Soldiers
 » Drug Trafficking
 » Gender Based Violence
 » Genocide
 » Globalization (unfair trading and economic effects)
 » Hunger and Poverty
 » Terrorism
 » Universal Primary Education
Pressing Global Issues for the Year:  2005
 » Corporate Power
 » HIV / AIDS
Pressing Global Issues for the Year:  2004
 » Crisis in Darfur, Sudan
 » Democracy in Iraq
Pressing Global Issues for the Year:  2003
         





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