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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.
Syria appeal is biggest in UN history
by David Tran The Guardian June 7, 2013
The UN has launched the largest emergency appeal in its history – $5bn (£3.2bn) – as it warned that half the population will need humanitarian aid by the end of the year....
Nutrition ‘must be a global priority’, say researchers as malnutrition is implicated in 45 percent of child deaths
by Helen Briggs BBC News June 5, 2013
Malnutrition is responsible for 45% of the global deaths of children under the age of five, research published in the Lancet medical journal suggests. Poor nutrition leads to the deaths of about 3.1 million under-fives annually, it says....
Egypt convicts 43 NGO workers, including 16 Americans, on charges of using foreign funds to foment unrest
by Griff Witte Washington Post June 4, 2013
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced to jail 43 nonprofit workers, including 16 Americans, in a case that has alarmed democracy advocates who fear a shrinking space for civil society more than two years after the country’s revolution....
UN urged to adopt 2030 goal of ending extreme poverty
by BBC News May 30, 2013
A commitment to end extreme poverty by 2030 is one of the key recommendations from an international panel co-chaired by David Cameron....
children are at risk of underperforming at school because of chronic malnutrition, Save the Children says
by BBC News May 27, 2013
Missing out on a nutritious diet could severely damage a child's ability to read and write, it said. The study found that malnourished children suffered irreversible damage; they grew up smaller and weaker, and their brains might not develop fully....
Forty organizations that are shaking up the food system
by Food Tank May 23, 2013
Since our launch in January, Food Tank has worked to amplify the messages of groups working around the world to improve the food system. The 40 organizations we're highlighting today are doing invaluable work to change the way we eat, grow, cook, buy, and sell food. Our hope is that the more people ...
Guatemalan court overturns genocide conviction of ex-dictator
by Elisabeth Malkin New York Times May 20, 2013
MEXICO CITY — Guatemala’s highest court on Monday threw out the genocide conviction and prison sentence of the former dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt....
Humanitarian intervention in violence-hit slums—from whether to how
by IRIN News May 15, 2013
In a move that experts say could open the door to a more robust aid response to chronic violence in urban areas, the European Commission’s humanitarian aid arm, ECHO, has approved two million euros in funding for violence-hit slums in Central America and Mexico until the end of 2014....
The price of fear: In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are ...
by IRIN News May 15, 2013
In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are hampered by a force that is tough to measure: Fear....
Why aid workers are targets
by Abby Stoddard The Globalist May 14, 2013
At last count, 45 humanitarian aid workers have been killed, wounded or kidnapped in Afghanistan so far this year, for a total of over 680 since the conflict began in 2001....
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