The document discusses various global issues such as climate change, poverty, access to clean water, armed conflicts, health crises, environmental degradation, human rights violations, and globalization. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these issues and collective action to address them, highlighting statistics, effects, and potential solutions for each challenge. Cooperation and mutual understanding among countries are essential to overcoming these global problems.

1. Global Issues Facing the World Today
Grade 7
Individuals and Societies
Sheraz Ashraf Khan

2. Introduction to Global Issues
•Definition of global issues
A global issue is a matter of public concern worldwide. Global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting
people around the world.
•Importance of understanding global issues
It is essential for countries to come together and take collective responsibility for the problems that impact the
world as a whole. Only through cooperation and mutual understanding can we hope to address and solve the global
issues that we face today

3. Climate Change
•Explanation of climate change
•Effects on weather patterns and
ecosystems
•Call to action: How we can solve the
issue

4. Poverty
•Definition of poverty
•Statistics on global poverty rates
•Impact on education and health
•How we can remove poverty

5. Access to Clean
Water
•Statistics on water scarcity
•Importance of clean water for health
•Global initiatives for water access
•Steps to improve clean water access

6. Armed Conflicts
and Violence
•Overview of current global conflicts
•Impact on communities and children
•Importance of conflict resolution
•How we can settle the current
conflicts and avoid more in the future

7. Health Crises
(e.g., Pandemics)
•Overview of recent health crises (e.g.,
COVID-19)
•Effects on global health systems
•Importance of global cooperation in
defeating pandemics

8. Environmental
Degradation
•Explanation of environmental
degradation
•What activities of humans affect
biodiversity and ecosystems
•What practices can help improve
environments and ecosystems

9. Human Rights
Violations
•Definition of human rights
•Examples of violations around the
world
•How we can overcome this monstrous
challenge?

10. Globalization and
Its Challenges
•Explanation of globalization
•Positive and negative impacts on
societies
•What are some balancing steps to
make globalization beneficial for all?