While taking drugs isn’t new, the incredible growth in the illegal drug trade is! Drugs are in great demand and prices are high. But what is the real cost?
Poverty / Rawa Kore
FEAST OR FAMINE?
With the Global Food Crisis hitting the headlines, Just Focus looks at the issues behind the food that we (and the rest of the world) eat.
Human Traffic
200 hundred years ago the British Empire put an end to the slave trade, so why, in today’s modern society, are people still bought and sold like commodities?
DRUGS: NOBODY’S WINNING THE WAR
While thrillseekers in the west demand the drugs, and their governments react by trying to stop the supply, farmers will continue to grow the illicit crops unless they are offered a real alternative way to make a living.
VEGETARIANISM… MAKE THE MOVE!
When you think of issues of global justice, vegetarianism is not one that immediately comes to mind. Many would think that choosing to become a vegetarian is less important than other issues that we should be campaigning for.
BEAUTIFUL PAIN IN HAITI
Just Focus member Geoff Cooper shares his thoughts and experiences from his visit to Haiti. “It was a full on trip to a country that few of my family wanted me to visit! The first question that I was asked on my arrival back in NZ was “were you surprised at the level of poverty?”
RUPERT MURDOCH
Clearly, Rupert Murdoch is a very gifted entrepreneur, from one local newspaper to a $30b (US) media empire. While at first this may not seem connected to poverty, it gains a certain logic when you link it up with the fact that newspapers, TV and other media sources are where most people find out about world events.
HIV/AIDS
All the time we hear about global pandemics like Bird Flu. We’re always told that we are at risk, but never given the guts of it… Like for instance, HIV/AIDS. What does it mean for me, an average young person living in Aotearoa New Zealand? Why should I care? It’s a scary thing that exists on the other side of the world and we’d rather ignore it right? Wrong.
TAKING BACK THEIR RIGHTS
By Omar Hamed.
Youth rise up against low pay and discriminaton with Supersizemypay.com
Let’s End Poverty Together!
Between August and October 2005 a group of dedicated students from Athena Montessori College in Wellington started investigating poverty.
They ended up painting a mural at the intersection of Ghuznee and Willis Streets in Wellington.
