pohlepnost, požrešnost. Ne bomo ustavili te vojne. Potegnili nas bodo vanjo. GROZNO.
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druga plat Jemna 11.03.2017 ob 18:24
Jemen z druge strani. Ampak o tem se ne govori in ne piše. MMC samo povzema včerajšnje mednarodno agencijsko sporočilo o krizi. Da bi sami malo pobrskali o ozadju, je za ta spoštljiv medij prezahtevno.
Spodnji članek iz leta 2010 napoveduje katastrofalno prihodnost za Jemen, ki se zdaj uresničuje.
Glavni razlog: preveč otrok.
Leta 1975 manj kot 7 milijonov ljudi.
Danes 24 milijonov ljudi.
Projekcija za leto 2045 glede na današnjo stopnjo rodnosti 48 milijonov ljudi.
Primanjkovalo jim bo 10 000 zdravnikov. Že danes v Jemnu močno primanjkuje vode in je bo primanjkovalo vedno bolj. To ima vedno eno samo posledico: vojno za vodo.
Brezposelnost 40%.
Brezposelni mladi nimajo kaj dosti možnosti. Poleg tega tega ni zadosti uučiteljev za vso to množico mladih, saj imajo le 1 učitelja na 80 otrok. To pomeni, da je mladina nešolana z veliko nepismenih.
Služb ni, ker je mladih preveč, brez denarja pa ne morejo preživeti. Tako jim preostane, da umrejo od lakote, se pridružijo raznim kriminalnim skupinam ali da se radikalizirajo. Posledica: današnja državljaska vojna, ki jo je za svoj profit spretno izkoristilo več tujih držav.
Vlada se teh problemov očitno zaveda, zato so leta 2005 začeli spodbujati ljudi, naj uporabljajo kontracepcijo, vendar rezultati niso vzpodbudni.
Članek navaja 2 primera. 30-letnica z 9 otroci in učitelj z 20 otroci. Ne en, ne dug jih ne moreta vseh preživljati. Otrok je toliko, kot jih da Alah. Samo Alah jih na žalost ni pripravljen preživljati.
SANA'A // Yemen is facing a security threat, described by one expert as a "time bomb". It is not al Qa'eda, the Houthi rebellion in the north or the secessionist movement in the south, though its influence cuts across all three.
It is found in millions of households across the country, such as Bahaja al Hamily's in Medinat al Layl, a slum on the outskirts of Sana'a. "We didn't intend it," she said. "We didn't take in to account what we earn." She gestures to the skinny toddler on her arm. "I had an operation after the ninth." Yemen has one of the highest population growth rates in the world. According to its National Population Council, a government body, 700,000 people - almost equal to the entire population of Djibouti - are added to the country each year. Its current population of 23 million people is set to double in the next two decades.
High population growth rates are often associated with developing countries, and the ensuing youth bulge is often blamed as a factor in social instability. But when a country is suffering from a natural resource crunch and faltering economic growth, not to mention three internal conflicts, the picture becomes alarming. "If the government doesn't do something, there will be a disaster," said Himyar Abdulmoghni of the United Nations Population Fund in Sana'a.
According to the NPC, if population growth remains unchecked, the ailing economy, with an unemployment rate of around 40 per cent, will have to create more than 2.2 million jobs in the next 25 years. The country will need an extra five billion cubic metres of water - which it does not have - and to maintain already patchy health services it will have to train and employ an extra 10,000 doctors.
The pressure of rising population levels, which have tripled since 1975, is already being felt in areas such as education, where there is reportedly one teacher for every 80 children, and transport. Abdo Seif, a development specialist with the United Nations Development Programme, said population growth was the most critical problem facing Yemen. "It's the root cause of other problems," he said. Youth unemployment, exacerbated by the entry of several hundred thousand people in to the labour market every year, is widely believed to be an underlying cause of civil unrest in both the north and south of Yemen.
The international community is particularly concerned that the lack of economic opportunities is making young people vulnerable to radicalisation. Youth unemployment "is a security threat," Mr Seif said. "They either go into organised crime or insurgencies." Mohammed al Muthaimi, an economics professor at Sana'a University, told Agence France-Press that youth unemployment was offering extremist organisations such as al Qa'eda the chance to recruit young people "by handing out much-needed money", though there is little evidence to back this up.
Although there are hopes that more aid will come Yemen's way as a result of the international attention it has received since the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day by a militant apparently trained by al Qa'eda in the country, it will be difficult for any interventions to keep pace with population growth, said Ramon Scoble, a Sana'a-based development consultant. In the time it will take for a local job creation scheme, for example, to be implemented, the number of people needing jobs will have hugely increased. "The numbers at that end of the scale far outweigh any band aid that's put on," Mr Scoble said.
The government has started to tackle the problem, and began to promote family planning in 2005, hoping to cut the population growth from its current level of three per cent to 2.2 per cent in 2025. However, the assistant secretary general of the National Population Council, Motahar Ahmed Zabarah, said they were unlikely to meet that target, and instead have settled for 2.5 per cent. The problem is partly one of resources. For a cash-strapped government struggling with so many immediate concerns, there is a difference between recognising something as an issue to be dealt with and allocating a budget to it, Mr Zabarah said.
Another obstacle, he said, is a lack of available contraceptives and family planning services in rural areas. Unmet need is around 50 per cent, he said. Ahmed Shuja al Din, a demography expert at Sana'a University, said there also needed to be a better understanding of people's attitudes towards family planning and how the services were used. "The social relationship is very complicated, they need to know what people are thinking," he said.
In the cramped living spaces of Medinat al Layl, a makeshift suburb whose 5,000 inhabitants are mainly migrants from rural areas, many people cited religion as a reason for their large families. "I believe the Quran says [family planning] is haram," said Thurayah, a 30-year-old mother-of-nine. Her husband's monthly income is about 20,000 rials (Dh350) and this was not enough to support their children, she said. "Sometimes there was desire for children, sometimes not, but they come."
A teacher, who did not want to give his name but said he had 20 children, also said he believed Islam forbade family planning. While there is now broad consensus among religious scholars that Islam allows for the right to plan one's family, and Muslim countries such as Iran and Egypt have pursued relatively successful programmes, it is still a challenge to overcome deep-rooted beliefs.
The Yemeni government enlisted the help of the mosques to try to counter the perception that family planning is haram, and it is thought to have been successful in reaching a majority of people, at least in urban areas. But some societal values regarding the importance of children are hard to overcome. "Population growth is coming from poor, non-educated families," Mr Abdulmoghni said. "Especially families where the woman is not educated."
Another prevalent belief is that family planning has negative health consequences. "I only wanted three children," said Ahmed Thabet, a father of seven, "but I don't believe in family planning. It is expensive; having drugs can affect the health of the mother and also the father." Although the rural areas have the highest birth rates, it is the cities that have the highest population growth, as the lack of economic opportunities in the agricultural sector drives people to places like Medinat al Layl.
According to the UN population fund, the number of 10 to 25-year-olds will rise from 8.6 million to 20.8 million in the next 25 years if nothing is done to curb growth. It is not clear where these young people will live, how they will be fed, watered, educated and employed; or how they will be prevented from discontent, rioting, forming gangs and joining armed insurgencies. If the national family planning policy fails to make any change, Yemen will soon find out.
"A person can't just rely on their salary," said the teacher in Medinat al Layl when asked if his job would support his 20 children. "You must find a second job. And everyone must believe in Allah's fortune." * The National
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Micka 11.03.2017 ob 18:37
Avtor: druga plat Jemna
Jemen z druge strani. Ampak o tem se ne govori in ne piše. MMC samo povzema včerajšnje mednarodno agencijsko sporočilo o krizi. Da bi sami malo pobrskali o ozadju, je za ta spoštljiv medij prezahtevno.
Spodnji članek iz leta 2010 napoveduje katastrofalno prihodnost za Jemen, ki se zdaj uresničuje.
Glavni razlog: preveč otrok.
Leta 1975 manj kot 7 milijonov ljudi.
Danes 24 milijonov ljudi.
Projekcija za leto 2045 glede na današnjo stopnjo rodnosti 48 milijonov ljudi.
Primanjkovalo jim bo 10 000 zdravnikov. Že danes v Jemnu močno primanjkuje vode in je bo primanjkovalo vedno bolj. To ima vedno eno samo posledico: vojno za vodo.
Brezposelnost 40%.
Brezposelni mladi nimajo kaj dosti možnosti. Poleg tega tega ni zadosti uučiteljev za vso to množico mladih, saj imajo le 1 učitelja na 80 otrok. To pomeni, da je mladina nešolana z veliko nepismenih.
Služb ni, ker je mladih preveč, brez denarja pa ne morejo preživeti. Tako jim preostane, da umrejo od lakote, se pridružijo raznim kriminalnim skupinam ali da se radikalizirajo. Posledica: današnja državljaska vojna, ki jo je za svoj profit spretno izkoristilo več tujih držav.
Vlada se teh problemov očitno zaveda, zato so leta 2005 začeli spodbujati ljudi, naj uporabljajo kontracepcijo, vendar rezultati niso vzpodbudni.
Članek navaja 2 primera. 30-letnica z 9 otroci in učitelj z 20 otroci. Ne en, ne dug jih ne moreta vseh preživljati. Otrok je toliko, kot jih da Alah. Samo Alah jih na žalost ni pripravljen preživljati.
SANA'A // Yemen is facing a security threat, described by one expert as a "time bomb". It is not al Qa'eda, the Houthi rebellion in the north or the secessionist movement in the south, though its influence cuts across all three.
It is found in millions of households across the country, such as Bahaja al Hamily's in Medinat al Layl, a slum on the outskirts of Sana'a. "We didn't intend it," she said. "We didn't take in to account what we earn." She gestures to the skinny toddler on her arm. "I had an operation after the ninth." Yemen has one of the highest population growth rates in the world. According to its National Population Council, a government body, 700,000 people - almost equal to the entire population of Djibouti - are added to the country each year. Its current population of 23 million people is set to double in the next two decades.
High population growth rates are often associated with developing countries, and the ensuing youth bulge is often blamed as a factor in social instability. But when a country is suffering from a natural resource crunch and faltering economic growth, not to mention three internal conflicts, the picture becomes alarming. "If the government doesn't do something, there will be a disaster," said Himyar Abdulmoghni of the United Nations Population Fund in Sana'a.
According to the NPC, if population growth remains unchecked, the ailing economy, with an unemployment rate of around 40 per cent, will have to create more than 2.2 million jobs in the next 25 years. The country will need an extra five billion cubic metres of water - which it does not have - and to maintain already patchy health services it will have to train and employ an extra 10,000 doctors.
The pressure of rising population levels, which have tripled since 1975, is already being felt in areas such as education, where there is reportedly one teacher for every 80 children, and transport. Abdo Seif, a development specialist with the United Nations Development Programme, said population growth was the most critical problem facing Yemen. "It's the root cause of other problems," he said. Youth unemployment, exacerbated by the entry of several hundred thousand people in to the labour market every year, is widely believed to be an underlying cause of civil unrest in both the north and south of Yemen.
The international community is particularly concerned that the lack of economic opportunities is making young people vulnerable to radicalisation. Youth unemployment "is a security threat," Mr Seif said. "They either go into organised crime or insurgencies." Mohammed al Muthaimi, an economics professor at Sana'a University, told Agence France-Press that youth unemployment was offering extremist organisations such as al Qa'eda the chance to recruit young people "by handing out much-needed money", though there is little evidence to back this up.
Although there are hopes that more aid will come Yemen's way as a result of the international attention it has received since the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day by a militant apparently trained by al Qa'eda in the country, it will be difficult for any interventions to keep pace with population growth, said Ramon Scoble, a Sana'a-based development consultant. In the time it will take for a local job creation scheme, for example, to be implemented, the number of people needing jobs will have hugely increased. "The numbers at that end of the scale far outweigh any band aid that's put on," Mr Scoble said.
The government has started to tackle the problem, and began to promote family planning in 2005, hoping to cut the population growth from its current level of three per cent to 2.2 per cent in 2025. However, the assistant secretary general of the National Population Council, Motahar Ahmed Zabarah, said they were unlikely to meet that target, and instead have settled for 2.5 per cent. The problem is partly one of resources. For a cash-strapped government struggling with so many immediate concerns, there is a difference between recognising something as an issue to be dealt with and allocating a budget to it, Mr Zabarah said.
Another obstacle, he said, is a lack of available contraceptives and family planning services in rural areas. Unmet need is around 50 per cent, he said. Ahmed Shuja al Din, a demography expert at Sana'a University, said there also needed to be a better understanding of people's attitudes towards family planning and how the services were used. "The social relationship is very complicated, they need to know what people are thinking," he said.
In the cramped living spaces of Medinat al Layl, a makeshift suburb whose 5,000 inhabitants are mainly migrants from rural areas, many people cited religion as a reason for their large families. "I believe the Quran says [family planning] is haram," said Thurayah, a 30-year-old mother-of-nine. Her husband's monthly income is about 20,000 rials (Dh350) and this was not enough to support their children, she said. "Sometimes there was desire for children, sometimes not, but they come."
A teacher, who did not want to give his name but said he had 20 children, also said he believed Islam forbade family planning. While there is now broad consensus among religious scholars that Islam allows for the right to plan one's family, and Muslim countries such as Iran and Egypt have pursued relatively successful programmes, it is still a challenge to overcome deep-rooted beliefs.
The Yemeni government enlisted the help of the mosques to try to counter the perception that family planning is haram, and it is thought to have been successful in reaching a majority of people, at least in urban areas. But some societal values regarding the importance of children are hard to overcome. "Population growth is coming from poor, non-educated families," Mr Abdulmoghni said. "Especially families where the woman is not educated."
Another prevalent belief is that family planning has negative health consequences. "I only wanted three children," said Ahmed Thabet, a father of seven, "but I don't believe in family planning. It is expensive; having drugs can affect the health of the mother and also the father." Although the rural areas have the highest birth rates, it is the cities that have the highest population growth, as the lack of economic opportunities in the agricultural sector drives people to places like Medinat al Layl.
According to the UN population fund, the number of 10 to 25-year-olds will rise from 8.6 million to 20.8 million in the next 25 years if nothing is done to curb growth. It is not clear where these young people will live, how they will be fed, watered, educated and employed; or how they will be prevented from discontent, rioting, forming gangs and joining armed insurgencies. If the national family planning policy fails to make any change, Yemen will soon find out.
"A person can't just rely on their salary," said the teacher in Medinat al Layl when asked if his job would support his 20 children. "You must find a second job. And everyone must believe in Allah's fortune." * The National
Ja seveda, to da jo je pred dvema letoma napadla Saudova Arabija, blokirala vse morske in zračne poti in da vojna še vedno traja, je pa brezpredmetno?
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Micika 11.03.2017 ob 18:47
Micika, preberi še enkrat, da so notranje jemenske nemire/ vojno izkoristile druge države za svojo korist. Če bi bil Jemen urejena država, bi jo bilo težje napasti, še težje pa vzdrževati vojaško prisotnost.
A to, da se množijo kot kunci in sami ne morejo vec ne nahraniti in ne napojiti vse te množice otrok, kaj šele šolati in zaposliti, te pa ne moti?
Primerjaj s Slovenijo.
Leta 1975 2 milijona ljudi
Danes 2 milijona ljudi
Leta 2045 2 milijona ljudi.
V jemenskem stilu bi pa bilo v Sloveniji
Leta 1975 2 milijona ljudi
Danes 7 milijonov ljudi
Leta 2045 14 milijonov ljudi. Se ti to zdi res tako zelo v redu? Neodgovornost je zate vrlina?
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Micka 11.03.2017 ob 18:53
Nima mi smisla pojasnjevat, vidiš kako sem butasta, cel post sem citirala da sem napapagajlano floskulo odgovorila.
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Micka 11.03.2017 ob 18:57
Avtor: Micika
Micika, preberi še enkrat, da so notranje jemenske nemire/ vojno izkoristile druge države za svojo korist. Če bi bil Jemen urejena država, bi jo bilo težje napasti, še težje pa vzdrževati vojaško prisotnost.
A to, da se množijo kot kunci in sami ne morejo vec ne nahraniti in ne napojiti vse te množice otrok, kaj šele šolati in zaposliti, te pa ne moti?
Primerjaj s Slovenijo.
Leta 1975 2 milijona ljudi
Danes 2 milijona ljudi
Leta 2045 2 milijona ljudi.
V jemenskem stilu bi pa bilo v Sloveniji
Leta 1975 2 milijona ljudi
Danes 7 milijonov ljudi
Leta 2045 14 milijonov ljudi. Se ti to zdi res tako zelo v redu? Neodgovornost je zate vrlina?
Jemen ni edina država z mlado populacijo. Njen problem je strateška lega in to, da Svet nemo opazuje kaj se tam dogaja oziroma to celo podpira.
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easy door 11.03.2017 ob 19:04
Ravno sedaj bilo tole na poročilih. Najhuje najverjetneje še prihaja, saj je suša, živali so poginile, hrane ne bo.
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vojne in mlada populacija 11.03.2017 ob 19:14
Vojne so povsod, kjer je preveč ljudi kot so jih njihovi starši zmožni preživeti. Vsaka država ima kaj pomembnega. Jemen ima strateško lokacijo, prav tako Slovenija. Ene države imajo vodo, druge nafto, tretje železovo rudo, četrte druge rudnine, pete veliko kakovostne kmetijske zemlje. Zakaj v vse državah ni državljanske vojne, kot se je začelo v Jemnu?
Mici, s čim boš preživela vso to mladež, če je zemlja preslaba in presuha, da bi jo nahranila? S čim jo boš napojila, če ni zadosti vode? Jo boš pustila nevedno in nepismeno ? Jo boš prepustila ulici, ker ni služb? Lepa kvaliteta življenja, ni kaj. Dokler bo šlo, bo šlo, pol bojo pa itak crknil, a ne?
Poskusi za spremembo gledat 5 let naprej namesto 5 minut.
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Micka 11.03.2017 ob 19:22
Avtor: vojne in mlada populacija
Vojne so povsod, kjer je preveč ljudi kot so jih njihovi starši zmožni preživeti. Vsaka država ima kaj pomembnega. Jemen ima strateško lokacijo, prav tako Slovenija. Ene države imajo vodo, druge nafto, tretje železovo rudo, četrte druge rudnine, pete veliko kakovostne kmetijske zemlje. Zakaj v vse državah ni državljanske vojne, kot se je začelo v Jemnu?
Mici, s čim boš preživela vso to mladež, če je zemlja preslaba in presuha, da bi jo nahranila? S čim jo boš napojila, če ni zadosti vode? Jo boš pustila nevedno in nepismeno ? Jo boš prepustila ulici, ker ni služb? Lepa kvaliteta življenja, ni kaj. Dokler bo šlo, bo šlo, pol bojo pa itak crknil, a ne?
Poskusi za spremembo gledat 5 let naprej namesto 5 minut.
Za krinko državljanske vojne se skriva agresija Saudijcev.
Povej mi, zakaj pa do izpred dveh let v Jemnu niso umirali od lakote?
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link, Micka 11.03.2017 ob 19:45
Link z dokazom, da niso umirali od lakote. In link, da ni bilo tako hude suše. In vidim, da ti moj nasvet, da je treba misliti 5 let vnaprej in ne 5 minut, ni koristil.
Dolgoletno životarjenje teh ljudi te pa očitno ne moti.
Jemenski časopis Al-Thawra je že davno poročal, da je 70 do 80% lokalnih konfliktov zaradi pomanjkanja vode in da je že pred leti v teh konfliktih umiralo najmanj 4000 ljudi na leto.
In nisi odgovorila, kaj misliš o tem, da se kljub pomanjkanju resursov producira toliko otrok. Daj za spremembo še o tem malo razmisli.
In še nekaj. Je v Nigeriji in Somaliji tudi kriva Svdska Arabija, da so se ljudje preveč namnožili in se jim obeta lakota? Saj Savdska Arabija je na istem kot te 3 druge države, a je šla aktivno v boj za hrano, vodo in svojo prihodnost (kontrola teritorija). Ne podpiram vojne, ampak vidim razliko v reševanju tega problema med Jemnom, Somalijo in Nigerijo na eni strani in Savdsko Arabijo na drugi.
Skupen nasvet vsem: imej toliko otrok, kot jih lahko preživiš.
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Micka 11.03.2017 ob 19:56
Avtor: link, Micka
Link z dokazom, da niso umirali od lakote. In link, da ni bilo tako hude suše. In vidim, da ti moj nasvet, da je treba misliti 5 let vnaprej in ne 5 minut, ni koristil.
Dolgoletno životarjenje teh ljudi te pa očitno ne moti.
Jemenski časopis Al-Thawra je že davno poročal, da je 70 do 80% lokalnih konfliktov zaradi pomanjkanja vode in da je že pred leti v teh konfliktih umiralo najmanj 4000 ljudi na leto.
In nisi odgovorila, kaj misliš o tem, da se kljub pomanjkanju resursov producira toliko otrok. Daj za spremembo še o tem malo razmisli.
In še nekaj. Je v Nigeriji in Somaliji tudi kriva Svdska Arabija, da so se ljudje preveč namnožili in se jim obeta lakota? Saj Savdska Arabija je na istem kot te 3 druge države, a je šla aktivno v boj za hrano, vodo in svojo prihodnost (kontrola teritorija). Ne podpiram vojne, ampak vidim razliko v reševanju tega problema med Jemnom, Somalijo in Nigerijo na eni strani in Savdsko Arabijo na drugi.
Skupen nasvet vsem: imej toliko otrok, kot jih lahko preživiš.
Ja seveda, podpirati je potrebno SA kot božjo kazen za Jemence, ker jih je preveč.
Ljubi Jezus....
Poglej, mislim, kar pač mislim. Sem prepotovala pred leti skoraj cel Jemen, poznam ljudi, ki so živeli tam in tiste, ki še vedno živijo tam. Mogoče pa čisto čisto malo vseeno poznam zadeve.
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kje je tvoj link 11.03.2017 ob 20:05
Mici, ti pa res nisi prov brihtna ali pa si funkcionalno nepismena. Ali samo prebereš tisto, kar hočeš prebrati? Kaj bo?
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Kontracepcija 11.03.2017 ob 20:16
Avtor: druga plat Jemna
Jemen z druge strani. Ampak o tem se ne govori in ne piše. MMC samo povzema včerajšnje mednarodno agencijsko sporočilo o krizi. Da bi sami malo pobrskali o ozadju, je za ta spoštljiv medij prezahtevno.
Spodnji članek iz leta 2010 napoveduje katastrofalno prihodnost za Jemen, ki se zdaj uresničuje.
Glavni razlog: preveč otrok.
Leta 1975 manj kot 7 milijonov ljudi.
Danes 24 milijonov ljudi.
Projekcija za leto 2045 glede na današnjo stopnjo rodnosti 48 milijonov ljudi.
Primanjkovalo jim bo 10 000 zdravnikov. Že danes v Jemnu močno primanjkuje vode in je bo primanjkovalo vedno bolj. To ima vedno eno samo posledico: vojno za vodo.
Brezposelnost 40%.
Brezposelni mladi nimajo kaj dosti možnosti. Poleg tega tega ni zadosti uučiteljev za vso to množico mladih, saj imajo le 1 učitelja na 80 otrok. To pomeni, da je mladina nešolana z veliko nepismenih.
Služb ni, ker je mladih preveč, brez denarja pa ne morejo preživeti. Tako jim preostane, da umrejo od lakote, se pridružijo raznim kriminalnim skupinam ali da se radikalizirajo. Posledica: današnja državljaska vojna, ki jo je za svoj profit spretno izkoristilo več tujih držav.
Vlada se teh problemov očitno zaveda, zato so leta 2005 začeli spodbujati ljudi, naj uporabljajo kontracepcijo, vendar rezultati niso vzpodbudni.
Članek navaja 2 primera. 30-letnica z 9 otroci in učitelj z 20 otroci. Ne en, ne dug jih ne moreta vseh preživljati. Otrok je toliko, kot jih da Alah. Samo Alah jih na žalost ni pripravljen preživljati.
SANA'A // Yemen is facing a security threat, described by one expert as a "time bomb". It is not al Qa'eda, the Houthi rebellion in the north or the secessionist movement in the south, though its influence cuts across all three.
It is found in millions of households across the country, such as Bahaja al Hamily's in Medinat al Layl, a slum on the outskirts of Sana'a. "We didn't intend it," she said. "We didn't take in to account what we earn." She gestures to the skinny toddler on her arm. "I had an operation after the ninth." Yemen has one of the highest population growth rates in the world. According to its National Population Council, a government body, 700,000 people - almost equal to the entire population of Djibouti - are added to the country each year. Its current population of 23 million people is set to double in the next two decades.
High population growth rates are often associated with developing countries, and the ensuing youth bulge is often blamed as a factor in social instability. But when a country is suffering from a natural resource crunch and faltering economic growth, not to mention three internal conflicts, the picture becomes alarming. "If the government doesn't do something, there will be a disaster," said Himyar Abdulmoghni of the United Nations Population Fund in Sana'a.
According to the NPC, if population growth remains unchecked, the ailing economy, with an unemployment rate of around 40 per cent, will have to create more than 2.2 million jobs in the next 25 years. The country will need an extra five billion cubic metres of water - which it does not have - and to maintain already patchy health services it will have to train and employ an extra 10,000 doctors.
The pressure of rising population levels, which have tripled since 1975, is already being felt in areas such as education, where there is reportedly one teacher for every 80 children, and transport. Abdo Seif, a development specialist with the United Nations Development Programme, said population growth was the most critical problem facing Yemen. "It's the root cause of other problems," he said. Youth unemployment, exacerbated by the entry of several hundred thousand people in to the labour market every year, is widely believed to be an underlying cause of civil unrest in both the north and south of Yemen.
The international community is particularly concerned that the lack of economic opportunities is making young people vulnerable to radicalisation. Youth unemployment "is a security threat," Mr Seif said. "They either go into organised crime or insurgencies." Mohammed al Muthaimi, an economics professor at Sana'a University, told Agence France-Press that youth unemployment was offering extremist organisations such as al Qa'eda the chance to recruit young people "by handing out much-needed money", though there is little evidence to back this up.
Although there are hopes that more aid will come Yemen's way as a result of the international attention it has received since the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day by a militant apparently trained by al Qa'eda in the country, it will be difficult for any interventions to keep pace with population growth, said Ramon Scoble, a Sana'a-based development consultant. In the time it will take for a local job creation scheme, for example, to be implemented, the number of people needing jobs will have hugely increased. "The numbers at that end of the scale far outweigh any band aid that's put on," Mr Scoble said.
The government has started to tackle the problem, and began to promote family planning in 2005, hoping to cut the population growth from its current level of three per cent to 2.2 per cent in 2025. However, the assistant secretary general of the National Population Council, Motahar Ahmed Zabarah, said they were unlikely to meet that target, and instead have settled for 2.5 per cent. The problem is partly one of resources. For a cash-strapped government struggling with so many immediate concerns, there is a difference between recognising something as an issue to be dealt with and allocating a budget to it, Mr Zabarah said.
Another obstacle, he said, is a lack of available contraceptives and family planning services in rural areas. Unmet need is around 50 per cent, he said. Ahmed Shuja al Din, a demography expert at Sana'a University, said there also needed to be a better understanding of people's attitudes towards family planning and how the services were used. "The social relationship is very complicated, they need to know what people are thinking," he said.
In the cramped living spaces of Medinat al Layl, a makeshift suburb whose 5,000 inhabitants are mainly migrants from rural areas, many people cited religion as a reason for their large families. "I believe the Quran says [family planning] is haram," said Thurayah, a 30-year-old mother-of-nine. Her husband's monthly income is about 20,000 rials (Dh350) and this was not enough to support their children, she said. "Sometimes there was desire for children, sometimes not, but they come."
A teacher, who did not want to give his name but said he had 20 children, also said he believed Islam forbade family planning. While there is now broad consensus among religious scholars that Islam allows for the right to plan one's family, and Muslim countries such as Iran and Egypt have pursued relatively successful programmes, it is still a challenge to overcome deep-rooted beliefs.
The Yemeni government enlisted the help of the mosques to try to counter the perception that family planning is haram, and it is thought to have been successful in reaching a majority of people, at least in urban areas. But some societal values regarding the importance of children are hard to overcome. "Population growth is coming from poor, non-educated families," Mr Abdulmoghni said. "Especially families where the woman is not educated."
Another prevalent belief is that family planning has negative health consequences. "I only wanted three children," said Ahmed Thabet, a father of seven, "but I don't believe in family planning. It is expensive; having drugs can affect the health of the mother and also the father." Although the rural areas have the highest birth rates, it is the cities that have the highest population growth, as the lack of economic opportunities in the agricultural sector drives people to places like Medinat al Layl.
According to the UN population fund, the number of 10 to 25-year-olds will rise from 8.6 million to 20.8 million in the next 25 years if nothing is done to curb growth. It is not clear where these young people will live, how they will be fed, watered, educated and employed; or how they will be prevented from discontent, rioting, forming gangs and joining armed insurgencies. If the national family planning policy fails to make any change, Yemen will soon find out.
"A person can't just rely on their salary," said the teacher in Medinat al Layl when asked if his job would support his 20 children. "You must find a second job. And everyone must believe in Allah's fortune." * The National
Kako pa spodbujajo kontracepcijo? Imajo v puščavi postavljene kondomate 🙂 ?
Ali v gorah?
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Triglav 11.03.2017 ob 20:44
A na Ttriglavu so tudi konomati?
Je treba tudi sam kaj naredit, da ne bo 20 otrok.
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Kontracepcija 11.03.2017 ob 20:48
Avtor: Triglav
A na Ttriglavu so tudi konomati?
Je treba tudi sam kaj naredit, da ne bo 20 otrok.
Seksat mora vsak. Če bi jemenske oblasti spodbujale kontracepcijo potem bi morale kaj ukreniti. In kaj so ukrenili? Nič, en velik nič. Ljudje pa so seksali, seksajo in seksali bodo.
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# 11.03.2017 ob 22:01
@kontracepcija, seksaš?
Koliko otrok imaš? 9 ali 20?
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Micka 11.03.2017 ob 22:18
Avtor: link, Micka
Link z dokazom, da niso umirali od lakote. In link, da ni bilo tako hude suše. In vidim, da ti moj nasvet, da je treba misliti 5 let vnaprej in ne 5 minut, ni koristil.
Dolgoletno životarjenje teh ljudi te pa očitno ne moti.
Jemenski časopis Al-Thawra je že davno poročal, da je 70 do 80% lokalnih konfliktov zaradi pomanjkanja vode in da je že pred leti v teh konfliktih umiralo najmanj 4000 ljudi na leto.
In nisi odgovorila, kaj misliš o tem, da se kljub pomanjkanju resursov producira toliko otrok. Daj za spremembo še o tem malo razmisli.
In še nekaj. Je v Nigeriji in Somaliji tudi kriva Svdska Arabija, da so se ljudje preveč namnožili in se jim obeta lakota? Saj Savdska Arabija je na istem kot te 3 druge države, a je šla aktivno v boj za hrano, vodo in svojo prihodnost (kontrola teritorija). Ne podpiram vojne, ampak vidim razliko v reševanju tega problema med Jemnom, Somalijo in Nigerijo na eni strani in Savdsko Arabijo na drugi.
Skupen nasvet vsem: imej toliko otrok, kot jih lahko preživiš.
Link z dokazom, da niso umirali od lakote. In link, da ni bilo tako hude suše. In vidim, da ti moj nasvet, da je treba misliti 5 let vnaprej in ne 5 minut, ni koristil.
Dolgoletno životarjenje teh ljudi te pa očitno ne moti.
Jemenski časopis Al-Thawra je že davno poročal, da je 70 do 80% lokalnih konfliktov zaradi pomanjkanja vode in da je že pred leti v teh konfliktih umiralo najmanj 4000 ljudi na leto.
In nisi odgovorila, kaj misliš o tem, da se kljub pomanjkanju resursov producira toliko otrok. Daj za spremembo še o tem malo razmisli.
In še nekaj. Je v Nigeriji in Somaliji tudi kriva Svdska Arabija, da so se ljudje preveč namnožili in se jim obeta lakota? Saj Savdska Arabija je na istem kot te 3 druge države, a je šla aktivno v boj za hrano, vodo in svojo prihodnost (kontrola teritorija). Ne podpiram vojne, ampak vidim razliko v reševanju tega problema med Jemnom, Somalijo in Nigerijo na eni strani in Savdsko Arabijo na drugi.
Skupen nasvet vsem: imej toliko otrok, kot jih lahko preživiš.
Me pa nekaj resno zanima.
Kako bodo pa po tvoje preživele demografsko podhranjene države z nizko rodnostjo in starim prebivalstvom?
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po vrstnem redu 12.03.2017 ob 15:52
Micka, zgoraj je cel kup vprašanj zate, ki jih ignoriraš. To so vse tiste povedi, ki imajo na koncu takle znak ? .
Najprej odgovorri nanje, potem dobiš odgovor.
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 15:59
Avtor: po vrstnem redu
Micka, zgoraj je cel kup vprašanj zate, ki jih ignoriraš. To so vse tiste povedi, ki imajo na koncu takle znak ? .
Najprej odgovorri nanje, potem dobiš odgovor.
Si ti link, Micka?
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 17:15
Avtor: kje je tvoj link
Mici, ti pa res nisi prov brihtna ali pa si funkcionalno nepismena. Ali samo prebereš tisto, kar hočeš prebrati? Kaj bo?
Važno mi je samo da sem dobra osebnost, pa če jutri miljoni gagnejo od lakote, bom zagovarjala njihovo pravico do poljubnega razmnoževanja, pa če jih pride v Evropo miljarda in bomo zato še mi pogagali, me to ne gane, kajti jaz sem dobra osebnost danes in sedaj, za jutri me boli pisda butasta zabita neumna egoistična.
Zdaj pa grem na koncert zabit denar s katerim bi v Jemnu preživela ves mesec cela vas, ker to mi pripada, ker sem dobra in čuteča oseba, jutri pa kupim en cekar knjig in še mogoče umetniško sliko, da se malo intelektualno ločim od vas, navadnih, brez čuta za humanitarnost.
Pomnite, danes jim moramo rešiti miljon, da jih bo jutri lahko umrlo 100 milj. , to je prvo in edino vodilo nas humanitarcev
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fakno 12.03.2017 ob 17:21
Avtor: Micka
Avtor: kje je tvoj link
Mici, ti pa res nisi prov brihtna ali pa si funkcionalno nepismena. Ali samo prebereš tisto, kar hočeš prebrati? Kaj bo?
Važno mi je samo da sem dobra osebnost, pa če jutri miljoni gagnejo od lakote, bom zagovarjala njihovo pravico do poljubnega razmnoževanja, pa če jih pride v Evropo miljarda in bomo zato še mi pogagali, me to ne gane, kajti jaz sem dobra osebnost danes in sedaj, za jutri me boli pisda butasta zabita neumna egoistična.
Zdaj pa grem na koncert zabit denar s katerim bi v Jemnu preživela ves mesec cela vas, ker to mi pripada, ker sem dobra in čuteča oseba, jutri pa kupim en cekar knjig in še mogoče umetniško sliko, da se malo intelektualno ločim od vas, navadnih, brez čuta za humanitarnost.
Pomnite, danes jim moramo rešiti miljon, da jih bo jutri lahko umrlo 100 milj. , to je prvo in edino vodilo nas humanitarcev
ČrkoTip, ti si res psiho. Bi bilo dobro, da se greš zdravit.
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 17:24
Avtor: fakno
Avtor: Micka
Avtor: kje je tvoj link
Mici, ti pa res nisi prov brihtna ali pa si funkcionalno nepismena. Ali samo prebereš tisto, kar hočeš prebrati? Kaj bo?
Važno mi je samo da sem dobra osebnost, pa če jutri miljoni gagnejo od lakote, bom zagovarjala njihovo pravico do poljubnega razmnoževanja, pa če jih pride v Evropo miljarda in bomo zato še mi pogagali, me to ne gane, kajti jaz sem dobra osebnost danes in sedaj, za jutri me boli pisda butasta zabita neumna egoistična.
Zdaj pa grem na koncert zabit denar s katerim bi v Jemnu preživela ves mesec cela vas, ker to mi pripada, ker sem dobra in čuteča oseba, jutri pa kupim en cekar knjig in še mogoče umetniško sliko, da se malo intelektualno ločim od vas, navadnih, brez čuta za humanitarnost.
Pomnite, danes jim moramo rešiti miljon, da jih bo jutri lahko umrlo 100 milj. , to je prvo in edino vodilo nas humanitarcev
ČrkoTip, ti si res psiho. Bi bilo dobro, da se greš zdravit.
Mah, Tip je res moten.
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kdorkoli je 12.03.2017 ob 17:25
Avtor: fakno
Avtor: Micka
Avtor: kje je tvoj link
Mici, ti pa res nisi prov brihtna ali pa si funkcionalno nepismena. Ali samo prebereš tisto, kar hočeš prebrati? Kaj bo?
Važno mi je samo da sem dobra osebnost, pa če jutri miljoni gagnejo od lakote, bom zagovarjala njihovo pravico do poljubnega razmnoževanja, pa če jih pride v Evropo miljarda in bomo zato še mi pogagali, me to ne gane, kajti jaz sem dobra osebnost danes in sedaj, za jutri me boli pisda butasta zabita neumna egoistična.
Zdaj pa grem na koncert zabit denar s katerim bi v Jemnu preživela ves mesec cela vas, ker to mi pripada, ker sem dobra in čuteča oseba, jutri pa kupim en cekar knjig in še mogoče umetniško sliko, da se malo intelektualno ločim od vas, navadnih, brez čuta za humanitarnost.
Pomnite, danes jim moramo rešiti miljon, da jih bo jutri lahko umrlo 100 milj. , to je prvo in edino vodilo nas humanitarcev
ČrkoTip, ti si res psiho. Bi bilo dobro, da se greš zdravit.
Korkoli je, Črko ali ne, je zadel žebljico na glavico.
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 17:27
Avtor: kdorkoli je
Avtor: fakno
Avtor: Micka
Avtor: kje je tvoj link
Mici, ti pa res nisi prov brihtna ali pa si funkcionalno nepismena. Ali samo prebereš tisto, kar hočeš prebrati? Kaj bo?
Važno mi je samo da sem dobra osebnost, pa če jutri miljoni gagnejo od lakote, bom zagovarjala njihovo pravico do poljubnega razmnoževanja, pa če jih pride v Evropo miljarda in bomo zato še mi pogagali, me to ne gane, kajti jaz sem dobra osebnost danes in sedaj, za jutri me boli pisda butasta zabita neumna egoistična.
Zdaj pa grem na koncert zabit denar s katerim bi v Jemnu preživela ves mesec cela vas, ker to mi pripada, ker sem dobra in čuteča oseba, jutri pa kupim en cekar knjig in še mogoče umetniško sliko, da se malo intelektualno ločim od vas, navadnih, brez čuta za humanitarnost.
Pomnite, danes jim moramo rešiti miljon, da jih bo jutri lahko umrlo 100 milj. , to je prvo in edino vodilo nas humanitarcev
ČrkoTip, ti si res psiho. Bi bilo dobro, da se greš zdravit.
Korkoli je, Črko ali ne, je zadel žebljico na glavico.
Aja? Ker je vse res, kar si zmišljujete o nas?
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 17:34
Avtor: po vrstnem redu
Micka, zgoraj je cel kup vprašanj zate, ki jih ignoriraš. To so vse tiste povedi, ki imajo na koncu takle znak ? .
Najprej odgovorri nanje, potem dobiš odgovor.
Misliš na tista o Jemnu? Na večino sem že.
Torej, vojna ni državljanska, ampak napad SA in njene koalicije na južno sosedo.
Res je, Jemenci imajo visoko rodnost, vendarle pa nimajo najvišje. Statistika je na prejšnji strani. Prav Jemen ni sama puščava in ima kar nekaj rodovitnih površin, res je pa tudi, da jim grozi tudi pomanjkanje vode (po mojem skromnem mnenju tudi zaradi prevelike pridelave kata, ki zahteva obilo namakanja). Imajo kar nekaj nafte, predvsem so pa na strateško zelo pomembnem področju, kar je po moje glavni vzrok za vojno.
Pravite, da se države z veliko rodnostjo ne morejo preživeti. Kako bodo pa preživele države na dnu lestvice (vključno s Slovenijo)? Prebivalstvo se stara, delovno aktivnega je pa vse manj. Smo tisti na dnu res bolj pametni od tistih na vrhu?
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 17:47
Prav uživam v sadovih dela humanitarnih kleptoorganizacij, Kljub vsesplošnemu zapravljanju podarjenega denarja za naš osebni luksuz na naših ekspedicijah po revnih predelih sveta, nam je vseeno uspelo prehraniti in obdržati pri življenju toliko lačnih ust, da so se supešno, nekajkratno razmnožila in kmalu bomo lahko mrtve šteli v stotinah miljonov.
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vsekakor 12.03.2017 ob 17:50
Avtor: Micka
Avtor: link, Micka
Link z dokazom, da niso umirali od lakote. In link, da ni bilo tako hude suše. In vidim, da ti moj nasvet, da je treba misliti 5 let vnaprej in ne 5 minut, ni koristil.
Dolgoletno životarjenje teh ljudi te pa očitno ne moti.
Jemenski časopis Al-Thawra je že davno poročal, da je 70 do 80% lokalnih konfliktov zaradi pomanjkanja vode in da je že pred leti v teh konfliktih umiralo najmanj 4000 ljudi na leto.
In nisi odgovorila, kaj misliš o tem, da se kljub pomanjkanju resursov producira toliko otrok. Daj za spremembo še o tem malo razmisli.
In še nekaj. Je v Nigeriji in Somaliji tudi kriva Svdska Arabija, da so se ljudje preveč namnožili in se jim obeta lakota? Saj Savdska Arabija je na istem kot te 3 druge države, a je šla aktivno v boj za hrano, vodo in svojo prihodnost (kontrola teritorija). Ne podpiram vojne, ampak vidim razliko v reševanju tega problema med Jemnom, Somalijo in Nigerijo na eni strani in Savdsko Arabijo na drugi.
Skupen nasvet vsem: imej toliko otrok, kot jih lahko preživiš.
Ja seveda, podpirati je potrebno SA kot božjo kazen za Jemence, ker jih je preveč.
Ljubi Jezus....
Poglej, mislim, kar pač mislim. Sem prepotovala pred leti skoraj cel Jemen, poznam ljudi, ki so živeli tam in tiste, ki še vedno živijo tam. Mogoče pa čisto čisto malo vseeno poznam zadeve.
Ja, seveda, podpirati moramo bližnjevzhodne in afriške migrante kot božjo kazen, ker so se preveč namnožili, delat se jim pa ne da..
Ljubi Jezus!
Enako kot moramo podpirati
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 17:59
Avtor: vsekakor
Avtor: Micka
Avtor: link, Micka
Link z dokazom, da niso umirali od lakote. In link, da ni bilo tako hude suše. In vidim, da ti moj nasvet, da je treba misliti 5 let vnaprej in ne 5 minut, ni koristil.
Dolgoletno životarjenje teh ljudi te pa očitno ne moti.
Jemenski časopis Al-Thawra je že davno poročal, da je 70 do 80% lokalnih konfliktov zaradi pomanjkanja vode in da je že pred leti v teh konfliktih umiralo najmanj 4000 ljudi na leto.
In nisi odgovorila, kaj misliš o tem, da se kljub pomanjkanju resursov producira toliko otrok. Daj za spremembo še o tem malo razmisli.
In še nekaj. Je v Nigeriji in Somaliji tudi kriva Svdska Arabija, da so se ljudje preveč namnožili in se jim obeta lakota? Saj Savdska Arabija je na istem kot te 3 druge države, a je šla aktivno v boj za hrano, vodo in svojo prihodnost (kontrola teritorija). Ne podpiram vojne, ampak vidim razliko v reševanju tega problema med Jemnom, Somalijo in Nigerijo na eni strani in Savdsko Arabijo na drugi.
Skupen nasvet vsem: imej toliko otrok, kot jih lahko preživiš.
Ja seveda, podpirati je potrebno SA kot božjo kazen za Jemence, ker jih je preveč.
Ljubi Jezus....
Poglej, mislim, kar pač mislim. Sem prepotovala pred leti skoraj cel Jemen, poznam ljudi, ki so živeli tam in tiste, ki še vedno živijo tam. Mogoče pa čisto čisto malo vseeno poznam zadeve.
Ja, seveda, podpirati moramo bližnjevzhodne in afriške migrante kot božjo kazen, ker so se preveč namnožili, delat se jim pa ne da..
Ljubi Jezus!
Enako kot moramo podpirati
In kje to trdim ali zahtevam?
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 18:05
No? kje to trdim in zahtevam?
To je moj preizkušen recept, rep u pisdo povlečem in zahtevam dokaz
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Micka 12.03.2017 ob 18:07
Avtor: Micka
No? kje to trdim in zahtevam?
To je moj preizkušen recept, rep u pisdo povlečem in zahtevam dokaz
11.03.2017 ob 10:43