The global human referendum addresses the most serious suffering affecting the majority of people in the world. To take these problems head-on and resolve them, we need to isolate the most chronic ailments that plague the population of the planet every day.

	X. DAILY NEEDS The most serious problems that afflict the largest number of people on the planet can be divided into three categories: HEALTH, ACCESS and SAFETY.
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The people of the world immediately need: clean water, food, sanitation, basic medicine; access to trade, wealth, technological and educational opportunity; and the non-violent resolution of conflicts. The severity and extent of the suffering is extreme.

The clear geographic and social delineation between the Northern and Southern hemispheres underlines the skewed status quo. In sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, and Southern and Eastern Asia 30% of the population, nearly one in three, are undernourished and ill and being part of the "developed world" doesn't automatically make you immune from the above-mentioned ailments. In the United States alone, one out of five (20%) children live below the official poverty line. The richest 1% of the population in America now owns as much wealth as the bottom 95% of all Americans combined.

Tolerating the suffering of the many on a daily basis or perceiving a sea of starving, sick and disenfranchised people as a necessary evil, is dangerous and cruel. Just the description of a "developed" contrary to a "developing" world shows the arrogance and severity of this divisive concept. Worldwide institutional discrimination against the poor holds a vast majority of all people captive as second class citizens.