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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.
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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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Mubarak says he won’t run for President again
by David D. Kirkpatrick and Mark Landler New York Times February 2, 2011
WASHINGTON — Last Sunday at 2 p.m., a blue-and-white Air Force jet left Andrews Air Force Base bound for Cairo. On board was Frank G. Wisner, an adroit ex-diplomat whom President Obama had asked hours before to undertake a supremely delicate mission: nudging President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt out of...
NGOs in Haiti face new questions about effectiveness—complaints concern poor coordination, high turnover and lack of transparency
by William Booth Washington Post February 2, 2011
IN PORT-AU-PRINCE In the days after the earth shook and the government collapsed, the municipal nursing home here became one of the most desperate sights in Haiti, as old people lay swaddled in dirty sheets, huddled in cramped tents, begging visitors for water....
Largest crowds yet demand change in Egypt
by Anthony Shadid and David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times February 1, 2011
CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak declared Tuesday night that he would step down in September as modern Egypt’s longest-serving leader, but that did not go far enough for the hundreds of thousands who poured into Tahrir Square in a sprawling protest that cut across entrenched lines of piety, class...
Rich, poor, and a rift exposed by unrest
by David D. Kirkpatrick and Monda El-Naggar New York Times January 30, 2011
CAIRO — As the government of Egypt shakes from a broad-based uprising, long-simmering resentments have burst into open class warfare....
Army lets protests proceed
by Griffe Witte Washington Post January 29, 2011
CAIRO - Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators swarmed central Cairo on Saturday in the largest demonstration yet against the rule of the country's longtime autocratic leader, President Hosni Mubarak. The crowd went unchallenged by troops, who, in extraordinary scenes unfolding around the ...
Mubarak orders crackdown, with revolt sweeping Egypt
by David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times January 28, 2011
CAIRO — With police stations and the governing party’s headquarters in flames, and much of this crucial Middle Eastern nation in open revolt, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt deployed the nation’s military and imposed a near-total blackout on communications to save his authoritarian government...
Germany suspends payment to AIDS fund over corruption claims
by BBC News January 27, 2011
Germany has suspended its annual payment of more than 200m euros (£172m) to the Global Fund against Aids, TB and malaria, following corruption claims....
Poverty’s new reality; there is a lot less of it in the world
by Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz Washington Post January 25, 2011
The World Economic Forum convening this week in Davos, Switzerland, is organized around the theme of "Shared Norms for the New Reality." As in past years, the conference will feature plenty of debate about how to solve global challenges in a multipolar, interdependent world. This "new reality," howe...
Violent clashes mark protests against Mubarak’s rule
by Karim Faheem and Mona El-Naggar January 25, 2011
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of people demanding an end to the nearly 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak filled the streets of several Egyptian cities on Tuesday, in an unusually large and sometimes violent burst of civil unrest that appeared to threaten the stability of one of the United States...
Report: Urgent action needed to avert global hunger
by Pallab Ghosh BBC News January 24, 2011
A UK government-commissioned study into food security has called for urgent action to avert global hunger....
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