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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.
Rethink needed on humanitarian funding for national NGOs, now only 0.2 percent of total humanitarian aid
by IRIN News September 15, 2014
With humanitarian aid effectiveness high on the agenda of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, there is much talk of how to reform humanitarian financing to make it more inclusive of national NGOs, but risk aversion will slow progress, say analysts. ...
Egypt’s new strongman, Sisi knows best
by David D Kirkpatrick New York Times May 24, 2014
CAIRO — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army officer soon to be Egypt’s president, promises to remedy Egypt’s crippling fuel shortage by installing energy-efficient bulbs in every home socket, even if he has to send a government employee to screw in each one....
Slavery is still thriving and is more profitable than big oil
by Karina Kolodny Huffington Post May 22, 2014
It's hard to believe, but even today, people are forced into slavery, girls are sexually exploited and children are forced to do hard labor -- all for the sake of profits. ...
Mubarak gets three years for embezzlement, and his sons get 4
by David D Kirkpatrick New York Times May 21, 2014
CAIRO — A criminal court here convicted former President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday of embezzling millions of dollars of public money for his personal use in private homes and palaces, in a case that rights advocates say could now implicate the current prime minister and spy chief....
Billboard drives home extent of corruption as Mexican schools suffer
by Damien Cave New York Times September 1, 2014
MEXICO CITY — All over Mexico, children have begun making their way to school for the start of a new year — many stepping into run-down buildings without running water, new textbooks or trained teachers....
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....
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