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What is crown land?
Land owned by the federal and provincial government of canada
What is foreign ownership
Ownership of a country resources and businesses by people who are not citizens of the country
What is traditional territory
The land that indigenous people house occupied and used for thousands of years
Benefits of foregin ownership
Boosts economy, can invest money pay tax and provide jobs, bring in new tech that can benefit whole country
Drawbacks of foreign ownership
-usualy takes products and profit out of country
-citizens can suffer when land is taken over
Deffine corruption
Dishonest or illegal actions taken by authortoties in power
Deffine Public sectors
The part of a countries economy that is controlled by the governemnt
Deffine Colony
a country, territory or region controlled by another country
Deffine Colonial power
a country that controls one or more colony
Deffine Foreign debt
The money that a country owes to individuals, coaperation and governemnt in other countries
What can governemtn corruption exposing it be
Exposing corruption can decrease it, a high corruption is a lower quality of life
When corruption ends, what can hapen to a country
The transition can be difficult and violent, former colonies can be left with a weak economy, social and political problems
Reason for debt, and developing or developed has more
Developing countries, and debt can be caused by major disasters, corruption, high intrest rates
Observations of slum
Dirty, overcroawded, unsafe, unsanitary, poor
NGO deffinition, what is it
Non governmental organization, not part of gov, group of ppl who work together, raise money to solve problem, problem relates to inequalities
Whats Non-profit
Dont raise money for people working for the NGO to get rich but to pay themselves a resonable salary and to use the rest of the money to solve the problem
Common NGO problems they try to solve
Poverty
Homelessness
Climate Change
Helping enviroment
Violence
Gender Inequality
3 childrens right around the world
Right to food and water
Healthcare
a Home
Deffine Child Labour
When a child is deprived of oppertunities to go to school and live a normal childhood, they are forced to work, give up extracuriciulars and work in harmful abusive conditions, child labour can be paid or unpaid
Largest factor contributes to child labour is
POVERTY
What is red cross
They go where people need help to give first aid
Deffine UNICEF
United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund
UNICEFS GOAL IS
Everychildren should thrive, learn, safe from harm, get a voice
dEFFINE TRADE
THE BUYING AND SELLINGOF GOODS OR SERVICES
