Traduction de «privation de nourriture » (Français → Anglais) :

H. whereas the people of the DPRK have been exposed to decades of under-development, with poor health care and high levels of maternal and child malnutrition, in a context of political and economic isolation, recurrent natural disasters and international increases in food and fuel prices; whereas large parts of the population suffer from starvation and are, to a large extent, dependent on international food aid; whereas mass food shortages and famine have significant implications for a wide spectrum of human rights; whereas tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to China, leaving their country because of widespread hunger and re ...[+++]pression;

H. whereas the people of the DPRK have been exposed to decades of under-development, with poor health care and high levels of maternal and child malnutrition, in a context of political and economic isolation, recurrent natural disasters and international increases in food and fuel prices; whereas large parts of the population suffer from starvation and are, to a large extent, dependent on international food aid; whereas mass food shortages and famine have significant implications for a wide spectrum of human rights; whereas tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to China, leaving their country because of widespread hunger and r ...[+++]epression;

Imagine going to the doctor’s and being forced to choose between obtaining medicine for yourself and no food for the children, or food for the children and no medicine yourself.

L. whereas there is evidence in at least one case in the UK of animals being left unsupervised for long periods of time, even whilst recovering from traumatic experiments, and being deprived of food and/or water,

Accordingly, Canada should join with African countries like South Africa in putting pressure on Mr. Mugabe to cease and desist from all forms of state sanctioned violations of human rights; to put an end to a state orchestrated starvation policy while including the MDC in food and other distribution; to ensure the actual distribution of aid, and there is a need for massive amounts of food aid in which Canada can play a leading role, is taken out of the hands of Mr. Mugabe and put into the hands of churches, NGOs and other apolitical groups.

Mr. Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca): Mr. Speaker, I think implicit in this statement is the idea that this motion not deals with not only genocide but other inhumane tragedies that are occurring as we speak (1810) She alluded to a number of very important ones, from the rape of innocent civilian women in the former Yugoslavia to forced starvation and summary executions and torture in far away places such as East Timor, Chechnya and the Sudan.