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佐藤栄作　受賞論文集

empowerment of not only women but also the senior citizens, which will becomea significant challenge in many of the countries in near future. Secondly, with thenumber of foreign laborers in first world nations increasing, issues regarding humanrights of those laborers may increase. Many of the laborers are citizens of third worldnations, which in many cases do not possess sufficient backup system to support theseworkers; the U.N and associated NPO may be able to provide them with support interms of human rights issues in stead of their home countries, or encourage the hostnations in founding organizations specialized in emigrant worker support. For themeantime, the immediate tasks related to population decline should be handled bynational governments than the United Nations; rather, further endeavor on populationgrowth issue will in a long run contribute to assisting first world nations. On a morecivic level, the issue of awareness of the general public in both first and third worldnations arises. One usually possesses some knowledge on the U.N, but s/he would notimagine that s/he also has the power to partake in its projects. More than often s/he may find him/herself participating in such projects associated with global issuesonly through ODA figures, occasional donation and statistics presenting a long line ofnumbers and percentages. This would be especially marked in third world countries,where equal and sufficient education is a privilege and individual wealth is far limited.Nevertheless, what UN works on are global issues which concern all peoples, andshould neither be seen as specialized nor distant by the general public. The globalissues have already reached a point where they cannot be left for“someone else”tobe solved. It is true that each individual should be given rights including the right tochoose the number of children according to his/her liking, but above all one shouldbe reminded that s/he also has a responsibility as a global citizen in making thosedecisions. The world is yet to find a means of living outside the planet, and in the end526