22

Documented, politically motivated murders in Cambodia during the final two months before the July 1998 National Assembly elections

50

Estimated percentage of Russian criminal suspects subjected to torture or ill-treatment

60

Number of journalists under arrest or convicted of various crimes in Turkey in 1997

100

Number of lashings given to a teenage mother in Nigeria by an Islamic court for allegedly having sex outside of marriage

185,000

Number of ethnic Albanians who fled or were expelled from their homes in Kosovo as a result of ethnic conflict during 1999

40,000,000

Estimated number of bonded laborers in India during 1999

30

Percentage of Americans who face problems accessing health care due to cost

200-300

Number of children dying of malaria every hour

300,000

Number of children under the age of 18 currently participating in armed conflicts in more than 30 countries

500,000

Number of women who die during childbirth and unsafe abortions each year

784,000

Number of Colombian children between the ages of 6 and 11 who work

1,700,000

Number of civilians who have died through deprivation of water, food, and health care, and through combat-related casualties in the war between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda since 1998

3,000,000

Number of people in southern Sudan facing serious food shortages due to ongoing civil conflict and drought

11

Percentage of Honduran population constituting indigenous peoples, with little or no ability to participate in decisions affecting their lands, cultures, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources

40

Number of years the Moronene people have struggled to secure their claim to ancestral lands in southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia

84

Percentage of Palestinians (700,000 to 800,000 people) exiled from their homelands following the Israel-Arab War of 1948 and the establishment of the State of Israel

404

Number of recorded cases of illegal ocean dumping of wastes in Japanese waters in 1998

5,000,000-7,000,000

Estimated number of landmines in Afghanistan restricting areas for cultivation and slowing the return of refugees

3,400,000,000,000

Total dollars spent by the United States on preparing for nuclear war since the Second World War