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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.
G20 summit to address the world food crisis barely addresses key issues including biofuels, safety nets and trade restrictions
by IRIN News June 24, 2011
The agriculture ministers of major economies, rich as well as emerging, meeting for the first time as the world verges on another food crisis in only four years, have disappointed. Their decisions, summed up in a 24-page Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture, lacked the teeth to bite ...
Amid criticism, UN food agency to elect new chief
by Raphael Minder New York Times June 24, 2011
MADRID — On Sunday, members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will elect a new director general amid pressure on the agency to improve its own administrative efficiency, as well as that of the world’s poorest farming nations....
UNHCR 2011 refugee statistics: full data
by The Guardian June 21, 2011
The number of people forcibly displaced worldwide has reached 43.7m people, the highest number in 15 years, according to a report published today to mark World Refugee Day....
UNHCR report says refugee numbers at 15-year high
by Shiv Malik The Guardian June 20, 2011
The number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a 15-year high, according to the UN high commission for refugees (UNHCR), with the vast majority languishing in poor countries ill-equipped to cater to their needs....
International Labor Organization passes convention giving rights to domestic workers
by IRIN News June 17, 2011
Activists campaigning for the rights of domestic workers are celebrating the passing of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) convention recognizing domestic work as work. The convention is a long time coming and has brought the often invisible and abused to the forefront of protection, says...
Leftist former army officer Ollanta Humala elected president of Peru; wants to strengthen US ties
by BBC News June 8, 2011
Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala says he wants to strengthen ties with Peru's South American neighbours and the US - a "strategic partner"....
Brazil launches plan to end extreme poverty in three years; plan would raise incomes of 16 million people
by BBC News June 2, 2011
Brazil has launched a welfare scheme to lift millions out of extreme poverty by 2014, which President Dilma Rousseff calls her government's key priority....
Almost 17 million acres of land in Colombia were stolen by armed groups involved in the country’s civil conflict—government plans to return la...
by BBC News May 29, 2011
The Colombian government says almost 7m hectares (17m acres) of land have been stolen by armed groups involved in the country's civil conflict over the past 25 years....
Protestors take over Peruvian city, say new silver mining operation will pollute Lake Titicaca
by BBC News May 27, 2011
Thousands of angry indigenous protesters have taken over the city centre of Puno in south-eastern Peru....
Mubarak to face conspiracy charges in protest shootings
by Ernesto Londono Washington Post May 24, 2011
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Egypt’s top prosecutor said Tuesday that ousted president Hosni Mubarak will stand trial in an alleged conspiracy to kill demonstrators in February’s uprising and could face the death penalty if convicted....
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