World Hunger News June 16 to July 16, 2009
The articles below were published in Hunger Notes between June 16
and July 16, 2009 and are now on the Hunger Notes front page,
www.worldhunger.org.
Africa
Obama gives a call for change to a rapt Africa
Guinea-Bissau, a fragile nation in disarray, holds few hopes for its people as
they prepare to vote
US sends
weapons to Somalia
Bumper
crop, but Zimbabwe hungry
Asia
Pakistan's kiln workers bricked in by debt: families on ancient assembly lines
'can never earn enough to leave'
US drone strike kills 60 in Pakistan
Latin America
Ousted Honduran president wins international support
Honduran military ousts President Zelaya
Honduran
president fires armed forces boss
Peru prime minister to step down over handling of Amazon crisis
Protesters gird for long fight over opening Peru’s Amazon
9 hostage officers killed at Peruvian oil facility--Amazonian Indians demand
that Peruvian president withdraw decrees that ease the way for companies
to carry out major energy and logging projects in the Amazon
Haiti gets $1.2 billion debt
cancellation after long wait
Environment and hunger
Iraq
suffers as the Euphrates river dwindles
World leaders fail to agree specific target for climate cuts--agree only to
'substantially reduce' global emissions by 2050
Poorer nations reject a target on emission cut
Mumbai (Bombay) faces acute water shortage
Global
Egyptian jailed for three years for writing satirical poem about President
Mubarak—in Egypt ‘insulting’ Mubarak brings this sentence
G8
pledges to increase assistance to developing country agriculture
G8
pressured to honor aid pledges--the global recession has helped reduce aid from
wealthy nations even as it pushes millions more into poverty
G8's promise to Africa is likely to be broken--pledge to double aid by 2010 far
behind schedule
Pope calls for ethical dimension to global capitalism and a new world political
authority to help champion "the common good"
Economic crisis could last years
One
billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has
increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, UN says
As Iran calms, a struggle for political power and legitimacy intensifies
United States
Summer brings a wave of homeless families
In prisoners' wake, a tide of troubled kids
Safety net is fraying for the very poor
With something for everyone (compromises, carveouts and out and out gifts),
energy bill passes the House
Too poor to make the news
Opinion
Asias Afewerki and Eritrea: a nation’s tragedy
Selam Kidane
The global
food price crisis: a critique of orthodox perspectives
Walden Bello
Books
Monetization of Food Aid: Reconsidering
U.S. Policy and Practice
Emmy Simmons
Reviewed by Steven Hansch
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira Vieira
de Mello and the fight to save the world
Samantha Power Reviewed by Steven Hansch,
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