GENIUS Initiative

An initiative to promote eight important global causes and solve major global problems:

• Environmental Protection
• Food Security
• Health Protection
• Human Rights
• Basic Education
• Poverty Reduction
• Water Sufficiency
• War Prevention

Rules of participation in the GENIUS Initiative:

• Every member of GENIUS High IQ Network is invited to participate.
• A participant can participate in one or all eight tasks, alone or in a team.
• Each participant will be given one task/challenge to complete every week.
• A minimum of 10-20 minutes are required for the completion of each task.
• All donations and funds should be given to the appropriate organizations.
• Donations, suggestions, activism and brainstorming should all have proof.
• Proof of task completion could be a picture, video, document or message.
• All proof should be sent to the following email: initiative@geniusiqnetwork.org.

GENIUS Initiative

An initiative to promote eight important global causes and solve major global problems:

• Environmental Protection
• Food Security
• Health Protection
• Human Rights
• Basic Education
• Poverty Reduction
• Water Sufficiency
• War Prevention

Environmental Protection

From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Forests are key to producing the very air we breathe, yet these are being depleted at a rate of 13 million hectares every year, according to UN statistics. Extinctions are happening at what scientists estimate to be about 1,000 times the normal pace. Not only are we losing some special flora and fauna, but we are also damaging our ecosystems, and throwing them out of balance - the effects of which we cannot anticipate due to the intricate and complex nature of these systems.

Food Security

About 795 million people in the world were undernourished in 2014-16. That means one in nine people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to health worldwide - greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. For two decades, leading up to the millennium, global demand for food increased steadily, along with growth in the world’s population, record harvests, improvements in incomes, and the diversification of diets.

Health Protection

Less than half the people in the world today get all of the health services they need. In 2010, almost 100 million people were pushed into extreme poverty because they had to pay for health services out of their own pockets. 13 million people die every year before the age of 70 from cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and cancer - most in low and middle-income countries. Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before reaching their fifth birthday.

Human Rights

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more.  Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination. International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals or groups.

Basic Education

It’s estimated that approximately 600 million children are not mastering basic mathematics and literacy while at school. Researchers found that there is a long way to go toward reaching the UN's sustainable development goal of ensuring that all children have access to a free, quality secondary education. Right now, only 83 percent of the children who go to school at all complete elementary school, and just 45 percent of students aged 15 to 17 will finish secondary school. About 263 million children and youth are out of school, according to new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Poverty Reduction

While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still lives on less than US$1.90 a day - the internationally agreed poverty line, and millions of others live on slightly more than this daily amount. Significant progress has been made in many countries within Eastern and Southeastern Asia, but up to 42% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to live below the poverty line. 783 million people live below the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day. In 2016, almost 10 percent of the world’s workers and their families lived on less than US$1.90 per person per day.

Water Sufficiency

Water is at the core of sustainable development and is critical for socio-economic development, energy and food production, healthy ecosystems and for human survival itself. Water is also at the heart of adaptation to climate change, serving as the crucial link between society and the environment. Water is also a rights issue. As the global population grows, there is an increasing need to balance all of the competing commercial demands on water resources so that communities have enough for their needs.

War Prevention

Prevention requires apportioning responsibility to and promoting collaboration between concerned States and the international community. The duty to prevent and halt genocide and mass atrocities lies first and foremost with the State, but the international community has a role that cannot be blocked by the invocation of sovereignty. Sovereignty no longer exclusively protects States from foreign interference; it is a charge of responsibility where States are accountable for the welfare of their people. This principle is enshrined in article 1 of the Genocide Convention and embodied in the principle of “sovereignty as responsibility” and in the concept of the Responsibility to Protect.

Rules of participation in the GENIUS Initiative:

• Every member of GENIUS High IQ Network is invited to participate.
• A participant can participate in one or all eight tasks, alone or in a team.
• Each participant will be given one task/challenge to complete every month.
• A minimum of 10-20 minutes are required for the completion of each task.
• All donations and funds should be given to the appropriate organizations.
• Donations, suggestions, activism and brainstorming should all have proof.
• Proof of task completion could be a picture, video, document or message.
• All proof should be sent to the following email: initiative@geniusiqnetwork.org.

Sources: UN (https://www.un.org/en), GVI (https://www.gvi.co.uk), DW (https://www.dw.com/en), 

UNICEF (https://www.unicef.org/), UNESCO (https://en.unesco.org/), WHO (https://www.who.int/).