Hospitals & Asylums

African Social Security

1^st Draft HA-4-4-2005; 2^nd Draft HA-7-6-5

Art. 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 217 A (III) (1948) states,

“Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his [or her] personality”.

$25 billion Settlement this Summer 2005

Art. 3 (hi) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union adopted 11 July 2000.

B. The UN Millennium Development Goals for 2015, that are the focus of international co-operation aim to;

1. Reduce by half the number of people who suffer hunger or live in extreme poverty of less than $1 a day.

2. Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary education.

3. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education as soon as 2005.

4. Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate of children under the age of five.

5. Reduce by three quarter the maternal mortality ratio.

6. Halt and reverse the spread of AID, malaria and other major diseases.

7. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs to reverse loss of environmental resources.

8. Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory.

C. The proposed international contributions of $25 billion would provide cash payments between $50 and $100 per poor person. To afford the $365 per capita cost of the Millennium Development Goals it can be estimated that $100 billion will be needed annually to address the health, education and welfare costs of the African continent. African states will be expected to administrate at least 50% of foreign investment in monthly welfare checks to people who live below the national poverty line in order to achieve sustainable socio-economic growth in an equitable fashion. The US portion of the African Trust Fund 22USCX§2293 can currently credited with little more than $3 billion of annual global international assistance contributions. We hope to increase this amount by $10 billion in this US Act and $25 billion by this Treaty in 2005. The $10 billion in US contributions would justify matching funds from the EU and 50%, $5 billion from Asia should yield a $25 billion annual contribution to Africa. It is hoped that this fund would increase by $7.5 billion a year to $100 billion by 2015 to fully achieve the Millennium Goals. International contributions shall be substantially backed by the State and significantly supplemented with the admission of private donations to the fund. The $25 billion AIDS Trust fund should lend enough solvency to the health institutions to permit the vast majority of new money to be administrated as cash assistance to the poorest. However the toll of the disease has led the Secretary-General to request another $8-10 billion annually to combat HIV/AIDS that infects 26 million Africans and caused 2.3 million deaths in 2004.

D. To avoid any questions regarding the obscenity of the title of this Treaty – African Social Security (ASS) – and eliminate any discrimination that prosecutorial puritans might use to justify the denial of the substantive provisions of this Treaty, the title has been recommended by an African American friend who is considering moving to Africa to teach English and Divinity as superior to the title - African Treaty (AT). The acronym ASS lends the beneficiaries a part of the habeas corpus of the African Union that Heads of State can sit on when they assemble as a legislative body that will self determinately void the toxic byproducts of the internal processes of national bodies when gainfully incorporated into the process. ASS also enforces the liquidation of assets intended for administration as international development to real poor people who will void the checks thereby permitting the body to continue consuming such large quantities of donations in a healthy and equitable fashion that directly addresses the concerns we all have for the equal rights and self determination of the people of the African continent. Africa is of course not the only ASS – America and Asia would also benefit from the same program of global social security – Africa is merely the first to have such a treaty. The question, how to make the ASS Treaty a reality? However continues to pose a problem. Art. 13 (gh) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union adopted 11 July 2000 directs donors to the Executive Council to harmonize the international social insurance with the health, welfare, education, cultural and human resources programs of African nations.

G. Tony Blair’s promise of support in behalf of the United Kingdom is however not adequate, alone, to leverage $25 billion from the 1^st world to 3^rd parties. For the transfer of this capital to have any chance of success this 2005 it is critical that we act now- at the midpoint of the year. What should we do? There exist two interrelated opportunities in the near future for these funds to be formally committed to the African Union. The first opportunity to be heard is the substantive session of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) from 29 June to 27 July where the theme is conveniently, “achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Goals”. The second opportunity for settling this treaty is the G-8 Summit on 6 July in Scotland where the nation’s eight wealthiest nations shall meet to discuss World Trade Organization (WTO) issues. The substantive issue for ECOSOC and HA is the liquidation of the $33 in private donations for international development that USAID reported but did not administrate. The money for the ASS settlement is therefore believed to exist in first world banks it however needs to be administrated to retain donor confidence that the money will be used for the elimination of global poverty under Art. 11 of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development 2542 (XXIV) 1969.

	Country	Population	GDP billion	Per Capita	Con.	AID	Plan AID
1	Mauritius	1,220,481	13.85	$11,400	1998	$42	$1
2	South Africa	42,718,530	456.7	$10,700	1996	$487.5	$1
3	Botswana	1,640,115	15.05	$9,200		$17	$1
4	Seychelles	80,832	0.626	$7,800	1977	$16.4	$1
5	Namibia	1,954,033	13.85	$7,200	1990	$160	$1
6	Gabon	1,355,246	7.3	$5,500	1994	$0.331	$1
7	Swaziland	1,169,241	5.702	$4,900	Draft	$104	$1
8	Lesotho	1,865,040	5.6	$3,000	1993	$41.5	$65
9	Equatorial Guinea	523,051	1.27	$2,700	1988	$34	$18
10	Ghana	20,757,032	44.44	$2,200	1992	$6,900	$1
11	Guinea	9,467,866	19.5	$2,100		$359	$20
12	Angola	10,978,552	20.42	$1,900	1992	$383.5	$120
13	Sudan	39,148,162	70.95	$1,900	1998	$172	$800
14	Western Sahara	267,405	0.500	$1,900	1999		$20
15	Zimbabwe	12,671,860	24.03	$1,900	2000	$178	$550
16	Cameroon	16,063,678	27.75	$1,800	1996	$1,260	$45
17	Mauritania	2,998,563	5.195	$1,800	1991	$220	$50
18	Gambia, The	1,546,848	2.56	$1,700		$45	$55
19	Senegal	10,852,147	17.09	$1,600	1963	$362	$500
20	Togo	5,556,812	8.257	$1,500	1992	$80	$400
21	Cape Verde	415,294	0.600	$1,400	1992	$136	$64
22	Cote d’Ivoire	17,327,724	24.5	$1,400	2000	$1,000	$250
23	Uganda	26,404,543	36.1	$1,400	1995	$1,400	$500
24	Djibouti	466,900	0.619	$1,300	1992	$36	$25
25	Rwanda	7,954,013	10.11	$1,300	1991	$373	$130
26	Chad	9,538,544	10.67	$1,200	1996	$238	$250
27	Mozambique	18,811,731	21.23	$1,200	1990	$632.8	$400
28	Sao Tome and Principe	181,565	0.214	$1,200		$200 in 2000	$1
29	Benin	7,250,033	7.7	$1,100	1990	$343	$300
30	Burkina Faso	13,574,820	14.5	$1,100	1991	$484.1	$550
31	CentralAfrican Republic	3,742,482	4.2	$1,100	1995	$73	$100
32	Kenya	32,021,856	33.03	$1,000	1998	$453	$750
33	Liberia	3,390,635	3.261	$1,000	1984	$94	$150
34	Mali	11,956,788	10.53	$900	1992	$596	$600
35	Nigeria	137,253,133	114.8	$900	1999	$250	$3,000
36	Guinea-Bissau	1,388,363	1.06	$800		$115	$28
37	Madagascar	17,501,871	13.02	$800	1992	$354	$1,200
38	Niger	11,360,538	9.062	$800	1999	$341	$650
39	Zambia	10,462,436	8.596	$800	1996	$651	$350
40	Comoros	651,901	0.441	$700	2002	$10	$55
41	Congo,Democratic Republic of the	58,317,930	40	$700	1994	$195.3	$2,100
42	Congo, Republic of	2,998,040	2.148	$700	1992	$159	$150
43	Eritrea	4,447,307	3.3	$700	1996	$77	$370
44	Ethiopia	67,851,281	46.81	$700	1977	$308	$2,000
45	Burundi	6,231,221	3.78	$600	1992	$92.7	$510
46	Malawi	11,906,855	6.845	$600	1994	$540	$631
47	Tanzania	36,588,225	21.58	$600	1998	$1,200	$1,000
48	Sierra Leone	5,883,889	3.057	$500	1991	$103	$480
49	Somalia	8,304,601	4.361	$500	1995	$60	$750
	Total	717,020,013	1,216.764	$1,700		$6,439	$19,995

North Africa

50	Algeria	32,129,324	196	$6,000	1996	$182	$1
51	Egypt	76,117,421	295.2	$4,000	1980	$1,200	$1
52	Libya	5,631,585	35	$6,400	1969	$15	$1
53	Morocco	32,209,101	128.3	$4,000	1996	$565	$1
54	Tunisia	9,974,722	68.23	$6,900	1988	$378	$1
	Total	156,062,153	722.73	$4,600	2000	$2,340	$5

Total

49	Sub Saharan Africa	717,020,013	1,216.764	$1,700	$6,439	$19,995.00
5	North Africa	156,062,153	722.73	$4,600	$2,340	$5
54	Total	873,082,166	1,904.944	$2,200	$8,779	$20,000

Sudan HA-7-8-04

African Social Security HA-4-4-05

African Vital Statistics HA-14-4-05

Economic African Table HA-25-4-05

Text: www.title24uscode.org/AfricanTribes.doc

Citation: Hospitals & Asylums. African Social Security. 1^st Draft 4-4-05. 2^nd Draft 7-6-5. pp 65. www.title24uscode.org/ASS.htm