I need a speech topic about international problems?

Question

I need to give a speech about a current international problem.
It says that I should develop a problem, show the cause, and offer a solution to help reduce it. But the solution HAS to be a public policy. I have to prove that the solution will decrease the problem, and the best way to do that is to offer proof that it has been tried and was effecive. Or I could offer authoritative testimony.

If someone can give me help with all the criterias to my speech, that would be absolutely amazing.
Or if you only know of a current international problem, but don't know a solution that has been proven affective to that problem, that would be just fine too.
Any help woud be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :]

I know terroism is one. But I don't want to do that because I feel as if some of my beliefs will kind of come into the speech, and my speech teacher does not want to hear about one's beliefs.

Answer 1

TERRORISM IMMEDIATELY COMES TO MIND. BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS, TO BOTH SIDES. I'D LIKE TO M SEE WHAT YOU COME UP WITH. EMAIL ME
GOD BLESS

Answer 2

A difficult one would be the problem with the border with Mexico.
This is close to home and much of the nation has been thinking about it for some time.
I live in the Southwest (Tucson, AZ) and have many friends who have always lived here and are of "hispanic" heritage. Their parents always lived here, their grandparents always lived here. They've gone to the same schools as their parents, in their own neighborhoods, and it's all tied to Mexico. Because this used to be Mexico.
Arizona became a state in 1912, and was the last of the "original" 48 States (so-called contiguous States).
Land grants, going back to the Spanish occupation of Mexico are big factors in the borderland states. Mexican land grants, as well.
Many of the ranches in the region are the result of purchases of these land grants, and the material/water wealth that went with it.

Search "Walter Vale" -- this guy and his brother came out west from, I believe, Boston, on speculation hear-say that money could be made raising cattle for the army.
From small beginnings, and urging from a San Francisco associate, Walter Vail, and his brother, and others, used a certain amount of money (I don't know, $10,000) and bought what became the "Empire Ranch," and unbeknowingst to them, a rich deposit of silver, which they exploited fully.

But, you know, this is history, and it just goes on and on and on.

What I'm really getting at, is this whole region used to be Mexico, until the adventurism of President Polk.

The movement west, to make the country from sea to sea, was lead by Polk after the civil war.

The section of the Southwest, from New Mexico to Yuma, was known as "The Gadsden Purchase."

http://en.wikipedia.org/Gasden_Purchase

The war with Mexico could have resulted in the United States owning Baja California. But, we ceded it back to them, so they would continue to have access to the Pacific in their north. This is why you see the line of the border coursing slightly to the north, to allow land access to the Baja Peninsula.

The United States wanted the area known as the Gadsden Purchase for railroad transit to the west coast without having to traverse high mountain passes, and to facilitate populating areas like, mainly, Southern California.

What we still have, obviously, is an indigenous Spanish-speaking population with a proud and rich heritage.

It is this heritage that seems to be under assault with this controversy surrounding illegal immigration.

Many of the indigenous population of the Southwest don't like illegal immigration. Their jobs are on the line as well as any.
They pay taxes. They serve in our military. They sit on the city and county and state councils. They are us.

This could only be thought of as the closest-to-home international problem we have.

There could be some resolution of the dispute, outside of law enforcement, involving the Mexican and U.S. governmenrts. Something having to do with the Border itself. A resolution on both sides, some kind of coming-together.

Mexico is kind of a European entity, where the U.S. was born in a controversy with a European entity.

Just a thought.

Answer 3

What about foreign aid to countries that have had to deal with natural disasters? e.g. Indonesia or Pakistan

Funding for AIDS research; look at work done by the Stephen Lewis Foundation

Child poverty or child exploitation - look at how you can get more young people involved to become activists (look at organizations like Free the Children or War Child).

Answer 4

Some people consider outsourcing to be a problem, other think it's great. It's pretty controversial. I'm personally against it as I think little kids in ultra-poor countries shouldn't have to work in sweat shops from morning till dusk only to get a few cents/day, but some people would argue with me.

Answer 5

Global warming

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/

http://climatecrisis.org/

http://www.globalwarming.org/

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/

http://www.climatehotmap.org/

WEBSITES ON WEATHER AND CLIMATE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

http://www.cumbavac.org/weather.htm

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 6

The increase of cheap labour for multinational companies i.e. Nike using sweatshops and then making so much profit off their products.
Nuclear weaponary
Australia becoming Americanised
Obesity

Answer 7

Why We Fight (also the topic for a film)

Why is America perpetually in wars and its ramifications. Are we contribvuting to terrorism?

Answer 8

H.I.V.