Sentences with phrase «supplied by poor countries»

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The conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.

The tentacles of the trade crisscross the globe, leaving no country untouched, not even the United States, as evidenced by the July 2009 arrest of a New York rabbi who has been charged with arranging illegal transplants in this country by bringing in poor Israelis to supply kidneys.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Confronted by the injustice of the supply chain and the poor working conditions in countries such as India, Bruno Pieters wants to focus on sustainable fashion and transparency.

At Copenhagen, where the finance part of the deal was only sorted out at the very last minute, rich countries agreed to supply $ 30bn ($ 20bn) of «fast - start» financial assistance to the poor nations, and they said that by 2020, financial flows of at least $ 100bn a year would be provided.

For example, Florida has the third - highest solar generating capacity potential in the country, but is hampered by poor solar energy policies prohibiting citizens from purchasing electricity from third - party suppliers that are not utilities.

Under the guise of preventing «dangerous manmade climate change» and compensating poor countries for alleged «losses and damages» due to climate and weather caused by rich country fossil fuel use, they had planned to control the world's energy supplies and living standards, replace capitalism with a new UN-centered global economic order, and redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who want it.

In July 2012, the London Summit on Family Planning, led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the British government, and the United Nations, met to promote a shared goal of providing contraceptive services, information, and supplies to millions of women and girls in some of the world's poorest countries by 2020.