What are you doing when you have a very bad disease?
Or a simple cold?
Or you just want to check if everything is alright?
You are going to the doctor, aren't you?
At least you should have the opportunity to do this.
But sadly most of the perons on this earth do not have financial security when it comes to health coverage.
That means that you have to pay alot of money by yourself.
The poeple who suffer most under the current system are poor and destitute but those are actually the ones who are in need of the most health supply because of the enviroment they life in.
100 million people are getting poor per year because they had to pay for health cost which they really need.
But not only people who live in developing countries suffer under non existing health coverage, also in industrial countries exist a lot of problems with health coverage.
For example in the USA, they are a lot of perons who struggle to get insulinn
To raise awarness of those problems the UN proclaimed 2017 the 12th of December as the International Universal Health Coverage Day.
The theme of the second International Universal Health Coverage Day is „Unite for Universal Health Coverage : Now is the Time for Collective Action“.
To archive more and faster solutions in this problem the UN desided to hold next year a UN high-leve meeting during the 2019 UN General Assembly about the topic universal health coverage.
I personally think it is very important to give good and free health coverage to everyone and everywhere as fast as possible.
Today the medical archievments are higher then they have been ever before. So in my oppinion it is only logically to offer those archievments to everybody and help a lot of people.
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written by Johanna Dilling

International Mountain Day

Did you ever thought about the importance of mountains?

They cover a lot of the worlds surface, around 22 percent, and almost one billion people live in mountain areas.
But that is not all mountains can offer, even when you do not live in the mountains, they are really important for everyone, for example because of the water or the food. 60-80 percent of the world's freshwater is provided by mountains and a lot of important food crops originate in mountains, among them potatoes, maize, apples or tomatoes.

Another factor is the tourism, mountains attrack 15-20 percent of global tourism. A lot of peolpe like the mountains because of the opportunety to do many different things, for example climbing, hiking or wintersports.

The biodiversity has also to be mentioned as one really important factor of mountains, half of the world's biodiversity hotspots are concentrated in mountains and they host 28 percent of earth's forests.

As you can see, mountains play a big role in the everyday life of nearly everyone, even when you can't see it at first glance. More than half of the human population depends on mountains for water, food and clean energy.

So far so good, but mountains are under the threat from climat change. They are one of the earliest indicators of climat change, for example when mountain glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates because of the rising temperatures, as how it is happening at the moment. The consequences of this problem are really big, for example when the melting glaciers affecting freshwater supplies downstream for millions of people.

A lot of people never think about the impact of mountains, even though they are mentioned in the 2030 Agenda, they are still often forgotten, and that is something we have to change!

We all, politicians and everyone else, have to keep the importance of mountains and the environment in general in our mind, because we have just this one world.

To end this article: #MountainMatter. For water, food, environment, biodiversity and many other things. Not only for mountain communities but also for the rest of the world. Keep that in your mind. And not to forget: enjoy the nature and the mountains as often as you have the chance to!

Lioba Einhoff

On 9th of December 1948 , 70 years ago the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Genocide Convention is in force since 1951. In this convention genocide is defined in legal terms which means that any intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group is punished and illegal.
The convention was adopted after the campaign of lawyer Raphael Lemkin and also the text of the convention was mostly written by him.
Raphael Lamkin was a Polish-Jewish lawyer and peace researcher born in 1900. He started to work at the Genocide Convention after the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust during which he almost lost his whole family.
To raise awareness of genocide in general and in particular about the genocide convention and to remember and honor the victims of genocide there is since 2015 on the 9th of December the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.
I personally think that this topic is very important and everybody should be educated about it. When I was 16 years old I went with my school to Auschwitz, the biggest concentration camp of the Nazis. In Auschwitz there were 1,1 million people murdered and when you are standing there, I think you can feel this.
And you start to think about this topic. Not only about genocide but also about discrimination and the “reasons” for genocide. I put reasons in quotation marks because they are no reasons for genocide.
As a 16 year old girl, this visit of Auschwitz really changed me and my personal view on life.
i think a visit like this should be obligatory for everyone.
It is the responsibility of each person to not let a genocide happen again.
I want to end this article with a quote of Ellie Wiesel, which is very fitting in my opinion.
Ellie Wiesel was a Romanian American Jewish writer, professor, political activist and Nobel Laureate. He survived the holocaust and his work is mostly about his experience as a prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

​“At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…” Ellie Wiesel

written by Johanna Dilling

About corruption.... it is a bad thing because it takes away many excelent opportunities for a better future from you.

About corruption.... it is a bad thing because it influences your education and healthcare in a negative way, just because of filthy business.

About corruption.... it is a bad thing because a country with a corrupt government can never grow as much as possible.

About corruption... it is a bad thing because there will be many inequalities amongst different groups and different people.

About corruption.... you will never know that what you could have become if they did not take away your future by doing corrupt businesses.

So, what do you think? Is it worth it?

Stand up against corruption not only on the International Anticorruption Day, but during the entire year!

Written by Dóra Nagy

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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In 2018 we can look back on a history of about 100 Years in civil aviation. 100 years of awe, development and innovation. In these 100 years humanity grew together like never before.
​ Since 1944, on the 7. of December, the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) celebrates the International Civil Aviation Day.
A day to celebrate the innovation and its importance for Humanity. But also a day to turn our heads forward, to those who have been yet left out, who don't reap the socioeconomic benefits coinciding with international aviation because it's seeds where sown out unequal.
Every five years, the ICAO chooses a special anniversary theme for International Civil Aviation Day. Between these anniversary years, a single theme for the four years in between is chosen.
The theme for the current four year period is: Working Together to Ensure No Country is Left Behind.

We take many things for granted, food for example and also the soil it's grown on, but what happens if the soil we grow our food on becomes unusable? What happens if the soil turns infertile through reckless agriculture or Environmental changes?
The thought of this happening is pretty dire but the harsh truth is that a lot of arable soil is already gone due to poor treatment and exploitation and the percentage will continue to rise.
This brings a lot of problems to the local communities witch rely on that land.
Soil pollution leads to lower yield rates and lower quality of the food grown witch ten leads to hunger and famine.
But not only the soil we grow our produce on is threatened, also many ecosystems and their are facing major threats from agriculture, pollution and climate-change.
One example for that is the continued destruction of rain forests all around the world to make room for more agriculture, witch then uses the soil for a while to get insanely high yields, much more than it can handle and in return turning it into barren wasteland completely devoid of life.
To protect all the fertile soil all around the world, the united nations declared in 2013 that the 5. of December is The World Soil Day.
This year the World Soil Day is focusing on raising awareness to stop soil pollution.

-Bjarne Hundt