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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.
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report
by BBC News January 6, 2011
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report....
The coming hunger: Record food prices put world ‘in danger’, says UN
by Sean O'Grady The Independent January 6, 2011
Food riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet's poorest people are the likely effects of a new surge in world food prices, which have hit an all-time high according to the United Nations....
No police in Mexico town after last officer kidnapped
by BBC News December 28, 2010
The Mexican border town of Guadalupe has been left with no police force after the last officer was kidnapped....
Ernesto Sabato, 99: Writer led investigation of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’
by Peter Eisner Washington Post May 1, 2010
Ernesto Sabato, 99, a celebrated Argentine writer and intellectual who was chosen to lead an official investigation of thousands of killings by the military during the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s, and whose long life included careers as a physicist, public servant and artist, died April 30 at h...
How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis (opinion)
by Frederick Kaufman Foreign Policy April 27, 2010
Demand and supply certainly matter. But there’s another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed. ...
Syrian security forces kill dozens of protesters
by Tara Bahrampour Washington Post April 23, 2010
BEIRUT — Syrians who took to the streets Friday after prayers knew they were defying threats from their president....
Fighting nears Tripoli, where Quaddafi keeps grip on power
by Kareem Fahim and David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times February 23, 2010
BAIDA, Libya — As rebellion crept closer to the capital and defections of military officers multiplied, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi called on thousands of mercenaries and irregular security forces on Wednesday to defend his bastion in Tripoli, in what residents said was a desperate and dangerous turn ...
Somalis ‘at war’ with Ethiopia
by BBC News December 13, 2006
"All Somalis should take part in this struggle against Ethiopia," Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said from Mogadishu. Fresh heavy fighting is reported near the weak Somali government's Baidoa base, amid fears conflict could plunge the entire Horn of Africa into crisis. ...
Salvador Archbishop assassinated by sniper while officiating at Mass
by New York Times March 25, 1980
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