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"The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole."
-- Kofi Annan
Human rights are supervised by various organizations. These organizations work on improving world standards. Here is a guide for nations to support and follow up human rights reports.
The World Bank provides global services in finance. An important distinction between local-World Bank and Terramagne-World Bank: Here, the World Bank started off funding projects that would generate enough wealth to pay off the loan, then later began offering soft loans instead. In Terramagne, it started with the same lucrative projects, then added a grant program for other types of development which were vital but less lucrative without any expectation of repayment. The World Bank sent a representative to Thalassia with a basic pitch of its financial support services and a much more detailed pitch of charitable grants in hopes of gaining donations. This would have worked great if the representative had not promptly faceplanted into the pavement due to sartorial foolishness.
Nonhuman rights typically focus on animal rights, such as cetacean personhood. However, the concept of environmental personhood is beginning to revive for such entities as rivers and trees. In this, superpowers provide an edge because some nonhumans can communicate with some humans.
The efforts to increase salt tolerance in crops include rice. Thalassia is uniquely suited to work the problem because it is surrounded by saltwater, needs food, and has lots of scientists.
The Maldives spent some years largely closed to tourism, except for resorts, and later reopened its borders for free-choice travel.
Tourism in Bhutan is still tightly restricted. The country introduced Gross National Happiness, a concept pursued more in Terramagne than here.
Israel has a messy history and fares poorly in human rights. The Israel-Palestine conflict is especially ugly, and a key reason why those are bottom-ten countries. One of my Jewish readers gave a brilliant explanation of why Jews tend to curbstomp their enemies.
Health care around the world varies widely, and many people lack access. Learn how to fix that.
Médecins Sans Frontières (aka Doctors Without Borders) provides health care in conflict zones and other high-need areas.
A health nexus is an organization connecting providers and clients of health care, in which everything a member provider offers is available to member clients. In some regards, a health nexus resembles a friendly society or a cooperative. It was originally developed by Kraken and later released into the wild, where it is becoming popular as a replacement for health insurance. Kraken also created the open-source operating system, which like local-American Solis handles all the data for health care in the organization.
Universal education is a goal, but again access varies around the world. Read ideas on how to expand education.
Pensions exist in various forms and convey many benefits. Compare plans across countries. Explore how to provide universal social protection.
A seaphone is a device for two-way communication between air and water. These can be enabled for vocal interaction. However, most cetaceans are fluent with clicks but find human words difficult or impossible, and humans have even less success with cetacean languages. Thus most contemporary seaphones in Terramagne use Morse code, often with a keyboard and sceen display on the human side that make it like sending text messages.
Enjoy recipes for Tuna Poke Seaweed Salad and Aguas Frescas. Deepu gets pineapple-lemon; Abrial gets cucumber-honeydew-mint.
Recycled plastic can be high-quality and popular. See recycled plastic picnic tables in standard and accessible versions. The hexagonal shape of these picnic tables echoes the shape of a "village" in Sierpinski City, which is made of six triangular "neighborhoods." Many of the buildings are also hexagons. Repeating the same basic shapes in an environment creates a feeling of harmony, as well as efficiency.
Unemployment is hazardous to health. It can make people feel worthless. A job guarantee ensures that everyone who is willing and able to work can do so. Explore the principles of an effective job guarantee.
Hunger refers to insufficient volume and/or quality of food. World statistics are grim, though they vary by country. Understand how to stop world hunger.
Note that almost all modern problems of "shortage" are not actual scarcity but rather distribution issues. The reference I found was for hunger, but the concept applies to water, housing, employment, wealth, and almost everything else. We have enough stuff; we just can't be arsed to spread it around well enough to meet everyone's needs. We don't care about human beings, only money. People would rather see buildings stand empty until they fall down than see homeless people housed. They would rather let food rot than feed the hungry. Because life isn't a right, it is a paid privilege, and if you can't pay for it then society wants you to go die, preferably out of view so you don't annoy people who matter. Unsurprisingly, this is a disaster and it makes a shitty world for everyone to live in. Terramagne is doing somewhat better. And oh look, the supervillains beat everyone else to the brass ring because they're sick of being neglected.
Poverty also varies by country. Learn how to stop poverty.
Homelessness has nasty statistics. Read about how to prevent and stop it. Prevention is much more effective.
OSHA protects worker safety. Here are some ways to make work safer.
Substance abuse causes many problems. There are conventional and innovative ways to address this. However, bear in mind the overwhelming influence of environment: Rat Park was a famous experiment about addiction, which demonstrated that it's far less about drugs and far more about misery. Rat colonies in a large, luxurious enclosure had little to no interest in drugs whereas isolated rats in tiny cages took as much as they could. So if you have miserable people, they will do anything they can to dull the suffering -- which means that before you can solve substance abuse, you must first make people's lives livable. In this regard, Thalassia has done a brilliant job, but they are running along behind other societies trying to clean up the human wreckage. Hence the high rate of substance abuse.
Redheads have superpowers, but one drawback is that drugs often work differently for them.
Human trafficking is a serious problem in Terramagne, partly because soups are such valuable livestock. If you can get them, which is extremely hazardous to try. Read about trafficking around the world and ways to stop it.
Living world languages
Compare the qualifications for Esperanto:
Some sources define a living world language as having the following properties:
• numerous speakers -- 100,000-2,000,000 total speakers, around 2,000 native speakers.
• a substantial fraction of non-native speakers (function as lingua franca) -- yes
• official status in several countries -- T-Thalassia and T-Maldives; locally no, but China has posted news in Esperanto on its government website
• use across several regions in the world -- global
• a linguistic community not defined strictly along ethnic lines (multiethnic, pluricentric language) -- yes
• one or more standard registers which are widely taught as a foreign language -- yes
• association with linguistic prestige -- in some contexts
• use in international trade relations -- occasionally
• use in international organizations -- United Nations, UNESCO, International Academy of Sciences in San Marino
• use in the academic community -- yes
• significant body of literature -- yes
sukceso {noun}
EN
• achievement
• success
Agora has come to mean an open gathering.
"The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole."
-- Kofi Annan
Human rights are supervised by various organizations. These organizations work on improving world standards. Here is a guide for nations to support and follow up human rights reports.
The World Bank provides global services in finance. An important distinction between local-World Bank and Terramagne-World Bank: Here, the World Bank started off funding projects that would generate enough wealth to pay off the loan, then later began offering soft loans instead. In Terramagne, it started with the same lucrative projects, then added a grant program for other types of development which were vital but less lucrative without any expectation of repayment. The World Bank sent a representative to Thalassia with a basic pitch of its financial support services and a much more detailed pitch of charitable grants in hopes of gaining donations. This would have worked great if the representative had not promptly faceplanted into the pavement due to sartorial foolishness.
Nonhuman rights typically focus on animal rights, such as cetacean personhood. However, the concept of environmental personhood is beginning to revive for such entities as rivers and trees. In this, superpowers provide an edge because some nonhumans can communicate with some humans.
The efforts to increase salt tolerance in crops include rice. Thalassia is uniquely suited to work the problem because it is surrounded by saltwater, needs food, and has lots of scientists.
The Maldives spent some years largely closed to tourism, except for resorts, and later reopened its borders for free-choice travel.
Tourism in Bhutan is still tightly restricted. The country introduced Gross National Happiness, a concept pursued more in Terramagne than here.
Israel has a messy history and fares poorly in human rights. The Israel-Palestine conflict is especially ugly, and a key reason why those are bottom-ten countries. One of my Jewish readers gave a brilliant explanation of why Jews tend to curbstomp their enemies.
Health care around the world varies widely, and many people lack access. Learn how to fix that.
Médecins Sans Frontières (aka Doctors Without Borders) provides health care in conflict zones and other high-need areas.
A health nexus is an organization connecting providers and clients of health care, in which everything a member provider offers is available to member clients. In some regards, a health nexus resembles a friendly society or a cooperative. It was originally developed by Kraken and later released into the wild, where it is becoming popular as a replacement for health insurance. Kraken also created the open-source operating system, which like local-American Solis handles all the data for health care in the organization.
Universal education is a goal, but again access varies around the world. Read ideas on how to expand education.
Pensions exist in various forms and convey many benefits. Compare plans across countries. Explore how to provide universal social protection.
A seaphone is a device for two-way communication between air and water. These can be enabled for vocal interaction. However, most cetaceans are fluent with clicks but find human words difficult or impossible, and humans have even less success with cetacean languages. Thus most contemporary seaphones in Terramagne use Morse code, often with a keyboard and sceen display on the human side that make it like sending text messages.
Enjoy recipes for Tuna Poke Seaweed Salad and Aguas Frescas. Deepu gets pineapple-lemon; Abrial gets cucumber-honeydew-mint.
Recycled plastic can be high-quality and popular. See recycled plastic picnic tables in standard and accessible versions. The hexagonal shape of these picnic tables echoes the shape of a "village" in Sierpinski City, which is made of six triangular "neighborhoods." Many of the buildings are also hexagons. Repeating the same basic shapes in an environment creates a feeling of harmony, as well as efficiency.
Unemployment is hazardous to health. It can make people feel worthless. A job guarantee ensures that everyone who is willing and able to work can do so. Explore the principles of an effective job guarantee.
Hunger refers to insufficient volume and/or quality of food. World statistics are grim, though they vary by country. Understand how to stop world hunger.
Note that almost all modern problems of "shortage" are not actual scarcity but rather distribution issues. The reference I found was for hunger, but the concept applies to water, housing, employment, wealth, and almost everything else. We have enough stuff; we just can't be arsed to spread it around well enough to meet everyone's needs. We don't care about human beings, only money. People would rather see buildings stand empty until they fall down than see homeless people housed. They would rather let food rot than feed the hungry. Because life isn't a right, it is a paid privilege, and if you can't pay for it then society wants you to go die, preferably out of view so you don't annoy people who matter. Unsurprisingly, this is a disaster and it makes a shitty world for everyone to live in. Terramagne is doing somewhat better. And oh look, the supervillains beat everyone else to the brass ring because they're sick of being neglected.
Poverty also varies by country. Learn how to stop poverty.
Homelessness has nasty statistics. Read about how to prevent and stop it. Prevention is much more effective.
OSHA protects worker safety. Here are some ways to make work safer.
Substance abuse causes many problems. There are conventional and innovative ways to address this. However, bear in mind the overwhelming influence of environment: Rat Park was a famous experiment about addiction, which demonstrated that it's far less about drugs and far more about misery. Rat colonies in a large, luxurious enclosure had little to no interest in drugs whereas isolated rats in tiny cages took as much as they could. So if you have miserable people, they will do anything they can to dull the suffering -- which means that before you can solve substance abuse, you must first make people's lives livable. In this regard, Thalassia has done a brilliant job, but they are running along behind other societies trying to clean up the human wreckage. Hence the high rate of substance abuse.
Redheads have superpowers, but one drawback is that drugs often work differently for them.
Human trafficking is a serious problem in Terramagne, partly because soups are such valuable livestock. If you can get them, which is extremely hazardous to try. Read about trafficking around the world and ways to stop it.
Living world languages
Compare the qualifications for Esperanto:
Some sources define a living world language as having the following properties:
• numerous speakers -- 100,000-2,000,000 total speakers, around 2,000 native speakers.
• a substantial fraction of non-native speakers (function as lingua franca) -- yes
• official status in several countries -- T-Thalassia and T-Maldives; locally no, but China has posted news in Esperanto on its government website
• use across several regions in the world -- global
• a linguistic community not defined strictly along ethnic lines (multiethnic, pluricentric language) -- yes
• one or more standard registers which are widely taught as a foreign language -- yes
• association with linguistic prestige -- in some contexts
• use in international trade relations -- occasionally
• use in international organizations -- United Nations, UNESCO, International Academy of Sciences in San Marino
• use in the academic community -- yes
• significant body of literature -- yes
sukceso {noun}
EN
• achievement
• success
Agora has come to mean an open gathering.
