Humanity's Issues: The Week's Online Vote Results (12 February 2019)

CENTRAL, Hong Kong - Feb. 12, 2019 - PRLog -- Hong Kong (12 February, 2019) — Seven Billion Today (sevenbilliontoday.com), a global, digital platform, dedicated to raising awareness of the issues affecting mankind and the mobilization of humanity towards positive change has launched.

Featuring unbiased, fact-based news and a dynamic social media channel, Seven Billion Today's worldwide Community lobbies governments and the U.N. with the results of daily news polls and votes.

Seven Billion Today's Community believes that the seven billion people of the world can unite, and together, make positive change happen.

The most active votes over the last week on Seven Billion Today include:

1. Turkey calls on China to close internment camps for Muslims
87% of voters call on the U.N. to investigate China's 'forced indoctrination' of up to one million Muslims in Xinjiang province.

2. Violence continues in Paris as 'yellow vests' keep marching
83% think the political class in their country is out of touch with common people.

3. UK urges all social media to join Instagram's self-harm curb
86% would like all social media companies to ban "graphic self-harm" images and related content.

4. Contradicting Trump, Merkel says Islamic State not defeated
66% feel it is unacceptable that despite massive spends on security and intelligence, world leaders can still contradict each other on such serious issues.

5. Venezuela's Guaido warns military on blocked aid
60% think neither Juan Guaido or Nicolas Maduro should be the leader of Venezuela.

6. New shutdown threat as US budget talks stall
80% think it is unacceptable, that because politicians cannot agree terms, the government shuts down.

7. Would you prefer a direct or pure democracy – where the people decide on policy initiatives directly?
89% say yes.

8. Do you think higher taxes on the wealthy will be enough to eliminate economic and social inequalities?
57% think not.

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About Company: Seven Billion Today is a new, global, digital platform, providing users with a reliable source for unbiased, fact-based news, in addition to a dedicated social network, Community. Users can get involved by sharing posts, images, videos, and creating polls related to topics or issues they are passionate about. Community allows individuals to connect and interact with like-minded people from across the world.