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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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The geography of government benefits (interactive map showing benefits by country throughout the US)
by New York Times February 11, 2012
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Fair Trade having enforcement difficulties in growing $6 billion market
by Simon Clark and Heather Walsh Bloomberg News December 18, 2011
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UN climate talks’ real-world outcome will be determined in Asia
by Julliet Eilperin Washington Post December 12, 2011
Even as representatives from nearly 200 countries celebrated the last-minute compromise they fashioned at U.N. climate talks Sunday in Durban, South Africa, it became clear that its real-world outcome will be largely determined in Asia, rather than in Africa or the West....
In Durban, Kyoto treaty seems set to meet its end
by Geoffrey York Globe and Mail December 7, 2011
With just days remaining to salvage the Kyoto climate treaty, a mood of gloom is descending over the negotiations. Even the most optimistic diplomats are finding it hard to imagine how a deal can be reached....
Tiny tax on financial trades gains advocates
by Steven Greenhouse and Graham Bowley New York Times December 7, 2011
They call it the Robin Hood tax — a tiny levy on trades in the financial markets that would take money from the banks and give it to the world’s poor. And like the mythical hero of Sherwood Forest, it is beginning to capture the public’s imagination....
Climate deal pushed by poorer nations
by Richard Black BBC News December 1, 2011
The world's poorest countries have asked that talks on a new climate deal covering all nations begin immediately. At the UN climate summit, the Least Developed Countries bloc and small island states tabled papers saying the deal should be finalised within a year.Many of them are vulnerable to clima...
EU takes hardline stance at UN climate talks. Tough stand causes consternation among large developing countries, and discord threatens the future of t...
by Fiona Harvey The Guardian November 30, 2011
Europe is taking the toughest negotiating stand it has ever adopted on global warming. At this week's UN climate talks in Durban, the bloc will depart from decades of "dovish" practice by insisting stiff conditions must be met by China and other developing countries if a global climate treaty is to ...
calls for responsible deal in Durban climate change conference
by Nicole Winfield Huff post November 27, 2011
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UN climate talks get underway in South Africa. Kyoto protocol may be extended in weakened form; patchwork measures may provide some progress.
by Juliet Eilperin Washington Post November 27, 2011
The officials from around the world who will gather in South Africa on Monday to convene the latest round of U.N. climate negotiations are facing an uncomfortable fact: The global pact that has dictated greenhouse-gas targets since 1997 may no longer be relevant....
Fund halts new grants for AIDS, TB and malaria treatment in poor countries as developed country contributions drop
by David Brown Washington Post November 23, 2011
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which underwrites AIDS treatment for about half the people getting it in developing countries, announced Wednesday that it will make no new grants for the next two years because of the worldwide economic downturn....
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