Facts of War - Why you need to take action!

• In recorded history since 3600BC, over 14,500 major wars have killed close to four billion people - two-thirds of the current world population.
• In armed conflicts since 1945, 90% of casualties have been civilians compared to 50% in the Second World War.
• There are at least 250,000 child soldiers fighting armed conflict.
• By the age of 16 an American child has seen, on average, 18,000 murders on television. (Currently there are no figures of the middle east region)
• Almost half the world - over three billion people - live on less than $2.50 a day.
• Less than 1% of what the world spends every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen.
• There are 2.2billion children in the world, 1 billion of them live in poverty.
• Every night 800 million people go to bed hungry.
• For every 1$ in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.

By the time you have read this, 36 people have died from poverty, 10 people killed from landmines, 2 soldiers have been killed in war and 10 people have been killed from small arms.

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