While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still lives on less than US $I .90 a day - the internationally agreed poverty line, and millions of others live on【小题1】 more than this daily amount. Significant 【小题2】 has been made in many countries within Eastern and southeastern Asia, but up to 42% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to live below the poverty line.

Poverty means more than the【小题3】 of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Its signs include hunger and malnutrition, limited【小题4】 to education and other basic services, social injustice and exclusion, as well as failure to participate in decision-making. Today, more than 780 million people live below the international poverty line.

More than 11% of the world population is living in extreme poverty and struggling to fulfill the most【小题5】 needs like health, education, and the use of water, to name a few.

Ending poverty in all its forms is the first of the 17 goals of the 2030 Plan for Sustainable Development. The goal has been clearly set: “【小题6】 significant transport of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide【小题7】 and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to carry out programmes and policies to end poverty in all its aspects.”

The 2030 Plan for Sustainable Development【小题8】 to leave no one behind and to reach those furthest behind first. Meeting this ambitious development plan【小题9】 long-term policies for sustainable, inclusive, and sustained economic growth. supported by full employment and decent work for all, social integration, declining inequality, rising productivity and a favorable environment. In the 2030 Plan. Goal One【小题10】 that ending poverty in all its forms everywhere is the greatest global challenge facing the world today and a necessary requirement for sustainable development.

Gene-Edited Babies Trigger Worldwide controversy

THE WAVE of condemnation is far from over for He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher who claimed to have produced the world's first gene-edited babies. His research was aimed at helping millions of children at risk of 【小题1】 the HIV vims. He had altered a gene in embryos with the goal of making the babies resistant to HIV. He said the pregnancy had been successful and that 【小题2】healthy twin girls were born a few weeks earlier.

The Southern University of Science and Technology said in a statement that the university was unaware of the experiment he conducted. The university believes that his research has seriously violated academic ethics and rules, and it has immediately set up an independent 【小题3】 team on the matter. Hours after a video of his work was leaked, a total of 122 Chinese scientists in the field of gene-editing across the world 【小题4】 a joint statement of condemnation. It reads, “Pandora's box has been opened, but we may still have a chance to close it before it is 【小题5】. They added that his behavior has dealt a heavy 【小题6】to the international reputation of Chinese science.

Many researchers in stem cell science, immunology and medical ethics also described the experiment as “absurd” and “rogue. For one, the experimentation is considered unnecessary given China's mature technology in preventing the mother-to-child 【小题7】of HIV during pregnancy and early infancy. On the other hand, while the removal of the CCR5 gene can help immunize humans from AIDS, it 【小题8】 makes the body more susceptible to other viruses and illnesses. Moreover, DNA changes are also inherited by future generations, 【小题9】 in unpredictable consequences in the human gene pool.

But not all scientists oppose He's experiment. George Church, a renowned geneticist at Harvard University, told The Associated Press, “I think this is 【小题10】 as HTV is a major and growing public health threat.” Some netizens support Church, claiming that human gene editing is just another piece of technology like organ transplantation.

It remains a mystery as to whether the babies can indeed resist all forms of the HIV virus throughout their entire lives.

【小题1】 , most of the children get to know these advertisements by watching TV which are always full of vivid descriptions that have deeply captured the hearts of the children. 【小题2】 , children, naive and innocent, have kept asking their parents to bu. those toys, snacks or other goods which they have seen on TV. 【小题3】 , pressures coming from their friends, usually called “peer pressure”, have also made some kids unhappy with their life because the parents of their friends have bought the goods but their parents do not. In this case, not only the kids, but also their parents, are under great pressure.

【小题4】 , we sometimes have to admit that some of the advertisements do provide useful information. 【小题5】 , many food advertisements often involve the trends and tastes that most children would have, which could be helpful to the doctors or teachers in the field of children's health. 【小题6】 , the drawbacks of it are more obvious, the purpose of these ads will never change — making money on kids — and they provide misleading messages as well.

【小题7】 , they always do not concentrate on the qualities or values of the goods but how they look like or in which way they attract children, etc. 【小题8】 , parents have to pay much money and their kids are not necessarily satisfied with what they get because they are not as good as they are depicted the advertisement.