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World News tagged with Hunger

Sri Lanka: Australian Complicity in Genocide
World  (tags: Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamil, Tamils, HumanRights, humanrights, conflict, asia, Australia, government, capitalism, racism, abuse, politics, corruption, freedoms, disease, hunger, internment camps, concentration camps, death camps, genocide, holocaust )

Simon
- 11 days ago - greenleft.org.au
Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil people has not ended. 250,000 Tamil people face nightmare conditions detained behind barbed wire in violation of international law, in concentration camps where they are killed, or subjected to torture, rape, disease, etc
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END THE HUNGER SCANDAL
World  (tags: hunger, food, petition, world food crisis, summit, action, government, world )

Jelica
- 22 days ago - avaaz.org
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Yet the number of people suffering from chronic hunger across the planet has reached the record-high figure of 1 billion this year. This is a global scandal! Hundreds of billions are spent by wealthy go
10 comments
Africa: Millions of Poor Across Continent Set to Suffer Deepening Food Crisis, Warns UN Report
World  (tags: world, hunger, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, UnitedNations, society )

Cal
- 22 days ago - allafrica.com
Critical food insecurity is affecting 31 countries and the situation is particularly acute in East Africa, where prolonged drought and mounting conflict have left an estimated 20 million people in need of food aid, according to the Food and Agricultural O
9 comments
Eyewitness: Guatemala Food Crisis
World  (tags: Guatemala, government, children, families, malnutrition, food shortages, hunger, HumanRights )

Dee
- 79 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Guatemala has been hit by severe food shortages, with some 54,000 families living in the east of the country facing a critical situation.
2 comments
Ending Africa's Hunger
World  (tags: africa, children, Biotechnology, Gates Foundation, hunger )

Karen
- 89 days ago - thenation.com
More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia. Ending their hunger is one of the few unimpeachably noble tasks left to
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Make Worldwide Hunger a Priority ! TAKE ACTION !
World  (tags: humans, hunger, children, world, priority, protections )

Cher
- 106 days ago - change.org
More than 16,000 children die every day from hunger-related causes. Yet, few of these deaths are due to outright starvation. Instead, children who are "only" mildly or moderately undernourished suffer from immune systems that are unable to fight common
10 comments
One Sixth of Humanity Is Hungry - UN
World  (tags: hunger, relief, united nations, world hunger, farmers, solutions, small farmers, food, hungry, starvation )

Susty
- 163 days ago - us.oneworld.net
World hunger is estimated to reach historic highs in 2009 with more than 1 million people going hungry every day -- but there are solutions, reports the UN food agency.
5 comments
Sign Petition: Help Promote the Roadmap to End Global Hunger!
World  (tags: world, hunger, poverty, refugees, relief, food, human, rights, aid, africa, asia, europe, middle-east, UN, obama, government, politics )

Tom
- 174 days ago - change.org
Friends of the World Food Program (WFP) and its coalition partners developed the Roadmap to End Global Hunger that will guide Congress and the new administration in establishing a comprehensive strategy to address global hunger.
4 comments
Sign Petition: End Child Trafficking, Exploitation in Haiti
World  (tags: world, haiti, children, victims, prostitutes, sexual, abuse, violence, child, slavery, poverty, hunger, crime, freedoms, family, culture, society, rights, safety, sadness, abuse )

Tom
- 202 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
With 80 percent of Haitians living in poverty -- and half of them on less than a dollar a day -- a huge number of children are forced to work against their will in homes, fields, gangs and as prostitutes. As many as 200,000 children are victims.
18 comments
Sign Petition: End the Conflict - Bring Peace to Sri Lanka!
World  (tags: world, UN, refugees, relief, Sri Lanka, war, violence, humanrights, conflict, children, politics, suffering, humans, civilians, hunger, men, women, freedoms, culture )

Tom
- 208 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Target: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Please join the Better World Campaign in thanking the UN for the critical humanitarian and diplomatic work they have done thus far - and urge them to do everything in their power to end the suffering in Sri Lanka.
26 comments
Extreme Poverty and Hunger   video
World  (tags: africa, asia, children, death, india, world, Hunger, Poverty )

Brandy
- 223 days ago - youtube.com
A short video outlining extreme poverty and hunger, and it being one of the United Nation's Millennium Goals
11 comments
At Stake Are More Than Banks
World  (tags: world, Africa, Asia, Latin America, economy, rich, entitlemen, plutocrats, corporations, business, bailouts, poor, greed, poverty, g-20, leaders, famine, floods, starvation, women, children, hunger, mortality, suffering, death )

Tom
- 244 days ago - nytimes.com
The 500 richest people in the world earned more than the 416 million poorest people. The first group bears responsibility for the global economic mess but will be just fine; the latter group has no responsibility and will suffer the worst consequences.
11 comments
Afghanistan: Millions Facing Food Shortages, Possible Starvation in Forgotten Emergency
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, poverty, hunger, drought, food, starvation, drugs, suicide, bombings, war, violence, terrorism, middle-east, humanrights, conflict, children, death )

Tom
- 254 days ago - reliefweb.int
A severe drought is fueling a grave food crisis in Afghanistan that threatens millions with possible starvation. "In Afghanistan, the heroin trade, suicide bombings and the 'war on terror' has put the humanitarian agenda on the sidelines."
2 comments
Hungry in Zimbabwe: 'If You Rest, You Starve'
World  (tags: africa, hunger, Refugees&Relief, children, humans, world )

Cal
- 378 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Food catastrophe unfolds in rural area; nation remains in political paralysis
2 comments
Hungry Congo Refugees Get Soap, No Food
World  (tags: congo, refugees, food crisis, UnitedNations, humans, hunger, medical supplies, conflict, violence, war, suffering )


- 393 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Refugees who haven't eaten for days cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived Monday at their camp, but the jubilation turned into anger when U.N. workers dumped soap and jerry cans instead of food and sped on past rebel lines.
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