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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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Global Hunger in the News
Read the latest news and analysis about global hunger below.
Climate change deemed growing security threat by military researchers: Climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conf...
by Coral Davenport New York Times May 13, 2014
WASHINGTON — The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded....
Pope Francis calls for ‘legitimate redistribution’ of wealth to the poor
by Nicole Winfield Associated Press/Huffington Post May 9, 2014
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the "economy of exclusion" that is taking hold today....
Water and sanitation gains mask growing inequalities
by IRIN News May 8, 2014
Inequalities in access to clean drinking water and sanitation persist and in some cases are getting worse, although close to two billion people globally have gained access to clean drinking water and sanitation since 1990, according to new data from the World Health Organization and the UN Children...
South stymies North in global trade talks
by Ravi Kanth Devarakonda Inter Press Service July 26, 2014
GENEVA, Jul 26 2014 (IPS) - A group of developing countries brought a tectonic shift at the World Trade Organization on Friday by turning the tables against the industrialised countries, when they offered a positive trade agenda to expeditiously arrive at a permanent solution for food security and o...
Polio’s return after near eradication prompts global health warning
by Donald G McNeil Jr New York Times May 5, 2014
Alarmed by the spread of polio to several fragile countries, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Monday for only the second time since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in 2007....
India’s battle with the World Trade Organization
by Raymond Zhong Wall Street Journal July 23, 2014
India is on the verge of torpedoing another trade pact, and at issue yet again are the country’s massive government programs to help both farmers and the millions of poor households who buy the food they grow....
In rural Egypt, democracy withers
by Abigail Hauslohner Washington Post May 3, 2014
FAYOUM, Egypt — Two years ago, people here were enthusiastic about democracy....
Gaza under fire—A humanitarian disaster
by Khaled Alashqar Inter Press Service July 22, 2014
GAZA CITY, Jul 22 2014 (IPS) - As a result of over two weeks of Israeli bombardment, thousands of Palestinian civilians have fled their homes in the north of Gaza and sought refuge in schools run by the UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees....
Maryland governor, Obama aides spar over unaccompanied immigrant children
by Jenna Johnson Washington Post July 16, 2014
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Honduran child migrants leave home because of poverty and violence
by Joshua Partlow Washington Post July 15, 2014
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — They are coming to America because a good job here means sewing underwear in a sweatshop for $47 a week.They are leaving neighborhoods where you can walk down block after block of abandoned houses spray-painted with gang graffiti, with collapsed roofs and jungle plants s...
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