Poor:
"It is hunger, lack of shelter and clothing, being sick and not cared, without any education, it's vulnerability to adversity and suffer abuse and exclusion from the institutions." Today, we are more than 6 billion people living in this planet, 3 billion live in poverty. It is known that in the next 25 years, 1.5 billion people born in poor countries.
The World Bank estimates that between 130 y 155 million people in poverty fell in 2008 following the swell of prices of food and fuel. In 2007 global population that coincided with the classification of poverty (living with less than 2 dollars) amounting to 985 million people.
Because of the slowdown in economic growth that is experienced around the world 53 million people could be plunged into poverty. 40% of a total of 107 developing countries are highly vulnerable to the effects of poverty caused by the crisis, while the rest is relatively exposed and less than 10% face a slight risk. About 186 million adults and 88 million young people between 15 and 24 years are unemployed.
A child dies every 5 seconds from hunger and related causes. In the world there are 150 million children who fall within the definition of malnutrition. About 1,400 million people in 54 countries, many of them already malnourished, could suffer an even greater hunger. And hundreds of millions of beings not yet born would face a similar fate.
250 million children in the world are part of the labor market, of which 73 million are under 10 years and 8.4 million children are trapped in slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, prostitution, pornography and other illegal activities. We know that 1.2 million of these children have been trafficked.
In Latin America , one in five children between 5 and 14 years is forced to work.
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