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World hunger facts Global web links World child hunger facts
World Trade Organization "must address" food security IRIN News December 23, 2011
In first year, Brazil's president fires six ministers accused of corruption Juan Forero Washington Post December 14, 2011
Fair Trade having enforcement difficulties in growing $6 billion market Simon Clark and Heather Walsh Bloomberg News December 28, 2011 See also Fair Trade Wikipedia

Demonstrators in Nice, France, last month urged the leaders of the Group of 20 nations to do more to help the poor by means of the 'Robin Hood' tax — a tiny levy on trades in the financial markets that would take money from the banks and give it to the world’s poor. Photo: Frederic Nebinger/Getty Images
Tiny tax on financial trades gains advocates Steven Greenhouse and Graham Bowley New York Times December 7, 2011