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Trying to stop ACTA an international trade agreement. Making censoring possible in United States but the world. Making file sharing illegal

Trade Agreement (ACTA) is explained in good detail . ACTA is trying to stop counterfeiting worldwide. Ambassador Sapirio signs the trade agreement in Tokyo

Capital punishment (the death penalty) is the pre-meditated taking of a human life by a government in response to a crime committed by that legally convicted person. This article sums the arguments for and against the death penalty, and statistics worldwide.

The Office of International Religious Freedom has the mission of promoting religious freedom as a core objective of U.S. foreign policy. The office is headed by Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook. We monitor religious persecution and discrimination worldwide, recommend and implement policies in respective regions or countries, and develop programs to promote religious freedom.

World Health Organization reports that worldwide, the cost of kidney market is about 6,000. The numbers have been given by Physicians and Brokers. Surveys have been taken from hospitals in Japan and also from deal in Indian Villages. Close to 40% of people who are natives of Pakistan happen to have only one kidney do to the marketing of organs. Digits are increasing when it comes to donation of organs from Pakistan. Non-nationals happen to be the ones who are the receivers of these kidneys. About two-third of transplants are made outside of Pakistan.

The following is a list of smoking bans in the United States. For smoking bans and restrictions outside the United States, see the worldwide list of smoking bans. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any nationwide federal smoking ban. This is a list from Wikipedia that gives you every state that bans smoking and where each location is banned and when the state banned smoking. It also gives overview of smoking and why its banned. Also fun facts about smoking in other states.

The Mormon church has plans to build 31 new temples worldwide and restore 5. Some new temples will be built in Barranquilla, Colombia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; and Star Valley, Wyo

in 2012, Americans threw out over 35 million tons of food! This statistic is 20 percent more than what we threw out in 2000. Approximately a third of all food produced worldwide never gets eaten. This is not the biggest problem though, food landfills produce methane. This is at least 20 times more lethal than carbon dioxide.

Solutions to reducing food waste.

I think it's really great that college students are coming up with a way to help reduce food. Giving food to charities would help in having the homeless eat and also not wasting good food.There needs to be more organizations like this worldwide.

This article looks at the gun control laws in other countries and the reasons why they developed those laws. IN 2012 the death of 20 children at a school in Newtown Connecticut caused an upraise in the debate on whether we should have a more strict gun control law or not. President Obama tried getting semi-automatics and military style weapons banned and having a more strict background check was defeated in the senate in 2013. Since the mass shootings in 2015 Obama is trying to rekindle the bill.