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= = =media type="custom" key="3711287"= =7.12 Storyboard= =Bibliography 7.12= = = =**Africa Country Research**= In doing your research visit both of the following two websites to obtain information about your country:

http://online.culturegrams.com/world/world_region.php?contid=1&wmn=Africa https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

and GDP per capita for the country. It is used to measure a country's development, and economic and social well being on a scale of 0 to 1. (1 is the highest and 0 is the lowest. Angola's is .446. ||
 * Name of country || Angola ||
 * Population size || 12,500,000 ||
 * Per capita GDP || $9,100 ||
 * Main exports || $72.58 billion f.o.b. ||
 * Main imports || $15.25 billion f.o.b. ||
 * Resources || Oil, gold, diamonds, forests, and fisheries ||
 * Main ethnic groups || Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico 2%, European 1%, other 22% ||
 * Primary religions || indigenous beliefs 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% ||
 * Unemployment rate || More than half the population ||
 * Infant mortality rate || 182.31 deaths/1,000 live births ||
 * Life expectancy || 37.92 years ||
 * Literacy rate || 67.4% ||
 * Human Development Index (HDI) || HDI= combines normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment,

After you fill out this form about the country you are researching, write a paragraph summarizing your findings about this country. Draw a conclusion as to whether this country is in need of economic (or other) assistance.

Angola is should be in a rebuilding mode. Much of their infrastructure is damaged from a long civil war and their life expectancy, infant mortality rates and human development index are not good. With all of their natural resources Angola could increase their export rate to increase money for health services, schools, and other infrastructure.

As you research your “Aid to Africa” organization, be sure to consider the following: Agency Name: Human Rights Watch 1. How long has the organization been in existence? Human Rights watch began with Helsinki Watch in 1978 but formally took on the name Human Rights watch in 1988 after joining with several other organizations including Asia Watch and Africa Watch.

2. Who founded it? Human Rights Watch was founded by Robert L. Bernstein, Jeri Laber, and several others

3. Where is it headquartered? Human Rights Watch is headquartered in New York City.

4. What is its purpose? The purpose of Human Rights Watch is to protect the rights of all humans in the world. They bring a human rights perspective to issues such as domestic violence, trafficking, rape as a war crime, and child soldiers. In Angola, Human Rights Watch is working to improve voting rights and insure that the votings are not corrupt.

5. Does it provide assistance just to Africa, or is it active around the world? Human Rights Watch is active around the world including regions such as Asia, Africa, South America, and Central America.

6. Which problem(s) is it addressing in Africa? In Africa, Human Rights Watch addresses problems such as unfair voting rights, child soldiers, rape as a war crime, corrupt government, and other violations of human rights.

7. Does it provide assistance to just one or several countries in Africa? Human Rights Watch provides assistance to many countries in Africa including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, and Darfur.

8. How does the organization raise money for its efforts? Human Rights Watch raises money by contributions from foundations and private individuals worldwide. It does not accept any government funds indirectly or directly.

9. What is your organization's budget?

10. How much of the money it collects for Africa is used for overhead(expenses)?

11. Have the reviews of your organization's efforts been favorable or critical, i.e.,what kind of a "report card" has it been getting? Human Rights Watch has been criticized for one-side reporting, selection bias and a pro-Western bias.

12. How would you rate your organization's efforts? Has it done "a good job?" Human Rights Watch has done a good job of protecting the rights of people all around the world. Its only issue may be how it selects the violations of rights that it attempts to defend sometimes.
 * [[image:webkit-fake-url://53CA6540-DAB5-4B05-9EDF-31BC2AB6248E/Human-Right-Watch-Logo.gif caption="Human-Right-Watch-Logo.gif"]] || http://www.topnews.in/files/Human-Right-Watch-Logo.gif ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:webkit-fake-url://029879E1-F076-4A36-80FB-CC60652FB7C0/ao-map.gif caption="ao-map.gif"]] || http://www.faa.gov/AIRPORTS_AIRTRAFFIC/AIR_TRAFFIC/PUBLICATIONS/ifim/country_list/media/ao-map.gif ||  ||   ||
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 * [[image:webkit-fake-url://98811235-FDD9-40D7-80D3-C750A0F06183/fapa-daa_sa-3.jpg width="384" height="227" caption="fapa-daa_sa-3.jpg"]] || http://www.acig.org/artman/uploads/fapa-daa_sa-3.jpg ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:webkit-fake-url://B5C46989-5D5D-4DC9-91EC-9EB6361C3564/voting_booth.gif width="191" height="234" caption="voting_booth.gif"]] || http://www.thesunblog.com/sports/voting_booth.gif ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:webkit-fake-url://923627CD-4066-4D5C-BDF1-BE7A15428D21/58699_resized_democracy.jpg caption="58699_resized_democracy.jpg"]] || http://llnw.creamermedia.co.za/articles/images/resized/58699_resized_democracy.jpg ||  ||   ||

13. Do you think donating money to your organization is worthwhile? It is definitely worthwhile to donate money to Human Rights Watch because of its effectiveness in defending the rights of humans world-wide. An example of its success is how they persuaded the ICC to end the suspension of Thomas Lubanga's trial. He was a rebel leader and had been accused of enlisting child soldiers.