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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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Brazil unveils plan to hire 10,000 doctors for poor areas
by BBC News July 8, 2013
The shake-up will include employing foreign doctors for the first time from September, as well as changes to the university medicine curriculum....
A coup? Or something else? $1.5 billion in US aid is on the line
by Peter Baker New York Times July 4, 2013
WASHINGTON — By all accounts, the generals removed the democratically elected president, put him in detention, arrested his allies and suspended the Constitution. Army vehicles and soldiers in riot gear roamed the streets, while jet fighters roared overhead....
Barring of Bolivan plane infuriates Latin America as Snowden case widens
by William Neuman and Alison Smale New York Times July 3, 2013
CARACAS, Venezuela — The geopolitical storm churned up by Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American intelligence contractor, continued to spread on Wednesday as Latin American leaders roundly condemned the refusal to let Bolivia’s president fly over several European nations, rallying to his side ...
Bolivia complains to UN after Evo Morales’ plane ‘kidnapped.’ US refuses to comment on Morales plane but admits contact with other n...
by Sara Shahriari, Jonathan Watts, and Dan Roberts The Guardian July 3, 2013
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Military reasserts its allegiance to its privileges
by Ben Hubbard New York Times July 3, 2013
CAIRO — For most of his year in power, President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood thought they had tamed Egypt’s military, forcing out top generals and reaching a deal with their successors that protected the armed forces from civilian oversight....
Army ousts Egypt’s president; Morsi is taken into military custody
by David D Kirkpatrick New York Times July 3, 2013
CAIRO — Egypt’s military officers removed the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist....
Butterfly decline signals trouble in environment
by Darryl Fears Washington Post June 30, 2013
Butterflies are the essence of cool in the insect world, a favorite muse for poets and songwriters, who hold them up as symbols of love, beauty, transformation and good fortune....
Military says law barring US assistance to human rights violators hurts training mission
by Eric Schmitt New York Times June 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — A 16-year-old law that bars American aid to foreign security forces that violate human rights is drawing unusual fire from some top military commanders who say it undermines their ability to train the troops to fight militants and drug traffickers....
Sweeping protests in Brazil pull in an array of grievances
by Simon Romero and William Neuman New York Times June 20, 2013
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Just a few weeks ago, Mayara Vivian felt pretty good when a few hundred people showed up for a protest she helped organize to deride the government over a proposed bus fare increase. She had been trying to prod Brazilians into the streets since 2005, when she was only 15, and ...
Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change
by Darryl Fears Washington Post June 19, 2013
At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because the herring their parents feed them have vanished....
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