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Global Ethics in the Context of Global Issues & Global Ethical Challenges  Water Security - The ability to have enough clean water for human use. Malnutrition- Itis a serious health condition that occurs when a person does not get the right amount of nutrients in their diet, or if the...

Global Ethics in the Context of Global Issues & Global Ethical Challenges  Water Security - The ability to have enough clean water for human use. Malnutrition- Itis a serious health condition that occurs when a person does not get the right amount of nutrients in their diet, or if the nutrients are less than their needs or more than their needs, in case of obesity. Moral Imperative - It is a sense of duty towards the other person or the community, innately or out of generosity, without being compelled with laws and mandates. People often feel that it is their duty to help poor or needy people. Therefore, among the most important qualities of moral imperative is willingness, responsibility and freedom. Famine - A big shortage in food, that leads to high rise in mortality.  Read and discuss a section of UNICEF's appeal regarding – the most significant threats to the lives of millions of people in four different countries.  On 28 March 2017, UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) launched an urgent appeal to raise $255 million dollars to respond to the urgent needs of children in the northeastern areas of Nigeria, Somalia, southern Sudan and Yemen. The spokesperson clarified, “We need this money to provide those children with food, water, health, education and protection services, during the next few months according to a new funding update.”  A big part of such funding will be allocated to nutrition programs, and to provide medical care to children suffering from malnutrition, in addition to other health services, including vaccinations. The money will be also allocated to drinking water, sanitation systems, and to promoting cleanliness and hygiene advice for the protection against potentially fatal diseases.  UNICEF will work with partners in the four countries to respond to the threat of famine. In Northeast Nigeria, UNICEF will provide emergency primary health care to 3.9 million people this year and provide treatment for 220,000 children under the age of five who suffer from acute malnutrition. It will also provide more than 2 million people access to safe drinking water.  In Somalia, UNICEF supports 1.7 million children under the age of five including treating around 227,000 cases of severe malnutrition through health and nutrition services in health care facilities and mobile units.  In southern Sudan, UNICEF has provided, in collaboration with partners, life-saving aid for 145,000 people in areas affected or threatened by famine, including 33,000children under the age of five.  In Yemen, UNICEF expanded the scale of its malnutrition response activity through healthcare facilities and mobile teams, and by deploying healthcare practitioners and volunteers who reach out to communities that are difficult to access.  UNICEF also supports children suffering from acute malnutrition and their families with cash assistance, water and sanitation services, including the provision of safe water and supplies and promoting hygiene.  UNICEF, as usual, calls for the support of children and human rights and respect thereof. UNICEF UN News Centre. "Famine, Drought and War Threaten Millions of People in Four States” 28 January 2017. – WIPO I HAGUE WIPO I MADRID The International Trademark System International Design System A brand is a mark distinguishing the goods or services of a Industrial design is the decorative or aesthetic appearance of a company from the goods or services of other companies. piece consisting of two-dimensional elements, such as drawings, Trademarks are protected by intellectual property laws at lines or colours. In terms of principle, the owner of the registered national and regional level, where the trademark can be industrial design or registered patent owner shall be entitled to protected by registration through filing the appropriate prevent others from manufacturing, selling or importing products application form at the national/regional trademark office and that are designed or embody a design that is a copy of the paying the required fees. At international level, you have two protected design, when he undertakes such business for choices: either file a trademark application at the trademark commercial purposes. The laws of the majority of countries office of the country in which you wish to obtain protection or require that the industrial design shall be registered and protected use the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) under the Industrial Design Act as a “registered design”. Some Madrid System. The periods of the protection vary, but countries ensure protection of industrial designs under patent law trademark registration can be renewed without a time limit for as “design patents”. In some countries, industrial design laws an additional fee. Trademark protection is enforced by courts, stipulate that what are known as “unregistered industrial designs” which in most countries have the power to prevent trademark have to be granted fixed term protection and scope, without infringement. A trademark can be a single word or a registration. The industrial designs considered artworks under combination of words, letters and numbers. It may consist of copyright law may also be protected under the concerned three-dimensional marks, symbols and signals, such as the national law and according to the type of design. WIPO- shape and packaging of goods, or sound signals such as music, administered treaties, together with national and regional laws, oral sounds, smells or colours used as distinctive features. constitute the international legal framework for industrial WIPO-administered treaties, together with national and regional designs. laws, constitute the international legal framework for trademarks.  2 3 1 Logos are of Explain why pirating fundamental ideas is a moral importance in Protect your challenge, and the developing and intellectual product importance of exploiting a brand (your school’s logo) by globally. Draw a new researching necessary intellectual mark for your school to steps in the UAE protection in introduce it to students combatting piracy. from Western countries. Question - 1 Question - 2 Question - 3 Question - 4.  Take the role of an official at the WHO, and then discuss with your classmates the following ethical health issues: - Using individuals to conduct medical experiments - - Use of chemical weapons Describe the chosen AI tool(s) and their current uses in the selected field. Explain how these tools are expected to evolve in the next decade.