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Fight hunger with knowledge. In this short video, World Hunger Education Service’s Steve Hansch explains global hunger, discusses a few causes, and tells you how to get involved in humanitarian work.
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Fact Sheet: Understanding Global Hunger
Hunger is not having enough nutritious food. To end global hunger, nutritious food needs to be affordable and available to everyone. Learn about the meaning, causes, and solutions to global hunger.
Global Hunger: Children
Fact Sheet: Child Malnutrition
Adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life is vital for proper brain development. Malnutrition can have long-term impacts on a child’s life, including their ability to learn in school and grow properly.
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As tragedies shock Europe, a bigger refugee crisis looms in the Middle East
by Liz Sly Washington Post August 29, 2015
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Guatemala’s corruption investigations make swift strides
by Azam Ahmed New York Times August 25, 2015
GUATEMALA CITY — Just about every weekend for months, Jorge Castiglione, a 70-year-old engineer with a thinning ponytail, has gone to the Plaza de la Constitución here to support what has become a ritual in this nation: weekly protests calling for the resignation of the president and an end to po...
Expanding web of scandal in Brazil threatens further upheaval
by Simon Romero New York Times August 21, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO — The charges are nothing less than sweeping: Prosecutors say that Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, took as much as $40 million in bribes for himself and his allies, plundering Petrobras, the government-controlled oil company, while laundering money ...
Mexico’s anti-poverty programs are losing the battle
by Emilio Godoy Inter Press Service August 5, 2015
While most of Latin America has been reducing poverty, Mexico is moving in the other direction: new official figures reflect an increase in the number of poor in the last two years, despite the billions of dollars channeled into a broad range of programmes aimed at combating the problem....
Beyond brothels: Farms and fisheries are frontier of human trafficking
by Tracie McMillan NPR July 28, 2015
When the U.S. State Department released its annual human trafficking report on Monday, it told distressingly familiar tales of forced sex work and housekeepers kept against their will. But this year, one area got special attention: Slavery in the global supply chains of agriculture, fishing and aqua...
An additional $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty over a 15 year period will end chronic hunger, new UN estimates show
by Food and Agriculture Organization July 10, 2015
Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional $267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so poor people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, a new UN report says. This would average $160 an...
Pope calls for ‘globalization of hope,’ warns against temptations of materialism during South American tour
by Francis X. Rocca Wall Street Journal July 9, 2015
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia—Pope Francis issued a broadside against the global economic system, denouncing a structure based on worship of money, blaming it for inequality, military conflict and environmental degradation....
Spread of global conflict transforming humanitarian work, says Red Cross chief
by Sam Jones The Guardian July 8, 2015
The world’s inability to deal with the proliferation of conflict driven-crises is forcing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to shoulder an ever-larger burden and reassess the way it works, the organisation’s president has warned....
What progress has been made on each of the millennium development goals?
by Achilleas Galatsidas The Guardian July 6, 2015
The millennium development goals have targeted eight key areas – poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environment and global partnership. Each goal is supported by 21 specific targets and more than 60 indicators. Below, we’ve looked at what has been...
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