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Ø  **Massive step-up in the fight against poverty** Ø  **Peacekeeping, conflict prevention and combating terrorism** Ø  **Education for all** Ø  **Digital divide** Ø  **International Labor and migration rules** **Ø** **Infectious Diseases**
 * What are the issues Grade 8 will explore?**

Peacekeeping, conflict prevention and combating terrorism
 * 1) UpFront Hot Topic “Stolen Futures”- Iraq’s college students p. 8
 * 2) UpFront- The Other War- p. 99
 * 3) Conflict Resolution Education/Peace Education Overview
 * 4) Peacekeeping- Millennium Report

Digital Divide
 * 1) UpFront Hot Topic -US Entrepreneurs p. 29
 * 2) Battling the digital divide with e1 a day
 * 3) Digital Divide: What it is and why it matters
 * 4) e-gov Digital Divide remains wide despite increased connectivitly worldwide

Poverty
 * 1) UpFront Banker to the Poor p. 14
 * 2) UpFront- The Other India p. 8
 * 3) Time- The End of Poverty
 * 4) IRIN News- World Has Ability to End Hunger
 * 5) Poverty- Milleniun Report

Education/Literacy
 * 1) What is the United Nations Literacy Decade?
 * 2) Joint Effort
 * 3) Education for All on the right track finds Global Monitoring Report 2008 launched by UNESCO
 * 4) Thousands March for Education in India

International Labor and migration rules 1. Labour migration in the twenty-first century: E Pluribus, Unum? 2. International Labor and Migration Working out of poverty: 3. FACTS ON the ILO and the Millennium Development Goals