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Learn More About Global Issues

Learn More About Global Issues

Global Issues

Today’s unprecedented international integration and mobility are making the world much smaller and easier to reach out to, but also expanding and aggravating many regional problems and creating new global concerns. Learn more about the social, political, health, environmental, and economic issues that affect us all.

Global Organizations

Learn more about major world organizations that focus on global challenges such as poverty and famine, war and oppression, disease, environmental pollution, and animal extinction. Many programs partner with smaller non-governmental organizations that need support from people like you. Check them out and consider studying them further and becoming involved in the issues they represent.

Inspirational Projects

Here are a few projects that might inspire you to learn more about certain issues, perhaps get involved in a particular effort, or begin your own initiative. You may also find like-minded citizens and new friends who feel the same way you do about these projects!