India

Created by Joseba Hidalgo.

=My country facts=

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General Information:
Official country name: India. Year that country joined the UN: 1945.

People:
1. What are the people from the country called? The people from the country are called Indians.

2. What is the official language? What other languages do people speak? Their offcial language is Hindi. They also speak English.

3. What is the most-practiced religion? The most practiced religion is Hinduism.

4. How many inhabitants live in the country? 1.156.897.766 inhabitants live actually in India (2010).

Goverment:
1. What is the name of the leader of the country? Pratibha Devisingh Patil

2. What type of government is the country ruled by? The goverment that rules now in India is the Republic.(It is a form of goverment in which there is no king and it is governed by the president of the goverment).

3. What are the main political parties of the country? They are India National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.

4. Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence? Yes. It was a UK colony. It gained it indenpendece in the 15 August 1947.

5. In how many provinces is your country divided divided? It is divided into 28 states and 7 union territories.

Geography:
1. Where is the country located? It is in Asia, exactly in South Asia.

2. What other nations border the country? Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Burma and Pakistan.

3. What kind of landscape does the country have? We can find dry woods, sabanas, wet tropical woods and subtropical desserts.

4. What are the natural resources in your country? They are coal, iron, manganese, mica and bauxite.

Economy:
1. What is the most common sector of employment in the country? The most important sector of employment is agriculture ( 52%).

2. What is the unemployment rate in your country? 10,7% in 2009

3. How much money does your country give to humanitarian aid? It will spend 25 millions of dolars in hmanitarian aid in Pakistan.

The most surprising thing I learned about my country was that it is the second most populated country in the world.

=My predictions=

__Animal trafficking.__ I think some people in my country traffic with animals, with exotic animals. I think tis is very bad because a lot of animals are put in danger, not only the exotic animals that are traffic with, also the animals that live in the surrounding areas where the animals are transported. The furtive hunters and the people which traffic whit exotic animals earn a lot f money but in a ilegal form. The uses of the exotic and trafficked animals are varied, from used as pets to use their skin to jewelry. I think the law that goes against the animal traffick should be more estrict and persecuted the people which traffic with animals.

__Child Labor.__ I think chlid labor is basically on the poorest areas of the world, but I tjink it is also in some countries were the diferences in society are very hards. For that reason, in my country, the richest people of India are exploting the children to work for them without any security measures, and for long periods of time. I thing the goverment of my country should solve this spending more money in this type of preoblems.

=Position Paper=