Emergency airlifts of food, clothing and medicines from Mexico, Venezuela and Russia reveal a humanitarian crisis in Cuba that is unprecedented in scope.Five weeks after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike devastated the island nation’s food supplies – and...
State prison officials have begun force feeding an inmate who has been on a yearlong hunger strike, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut said Monday.
A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for three years claims U.S. guards recently threatened to kill him and took his legal papers, lawyers for the Saudi said Monday.
Some of the countries that will receive aid under a $214 million campaign by the World Food Program to ease the effects of high food and oil prices in 16 trouble spots:
A U.N. agency rolled out a $214 million program Tuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for food and oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid groups to provide enough food for the world’s hungry.
The U.N. will provide $214 million in food assistance to 16 impoverished areas to help ease the effects of high food and oil prices, its food agency said Tuesday.
Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day _ pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner.Now, due to a global food crisis that is hitting this impoverished country especially hard, the family eats one meal a day....
President Bush on Monday ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help nations where surging food prices have deepened hunger woes and sparked violent protests.The move comes one day after the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick,...
An out-of-work David Thomas walked into a Milwaukee food pantry just seeking groceries. Thomas learned he was a stroke waiting to happen and got blood pressure medicine along with his bread.Food pantries have long aimed to help heal hunger. A new project...
A Catholic bishop on Tuesday began his second hunger strike in two years to protest a government project to divert river water to irrigate parts of the country’s arid northeast.Bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio sent a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da...
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, in his fight against domestic hunger, called on Congress Wednesday to take immediate action to fund programs that provide food services for millions.”This is an issue that we can actually do something...
Hunger is something, no one control, thus it makes food a basic necessity for life. Hunger doesn’t discriminate anyone on any basis. But usually we are under the notion that people who has low incomes; low standards of living have a poor diet too. When...
The condition of women and girls in Guatemala is worse. Hunger is spreading its tentacles and capturing thousands of children in its ambit day by day. The vast majority of them die in situations that never make the news. Their plight is serious, but too...
Children are the only ones who are vulnerable to all kind of atrocities, whether its porn, sexual abuse, malnutrition, hunger, child prostitution, conscription in squadron, they seen everywhere.
Now, a weird thing has smacked the headlines, children...
Chances are very high that soon India would introduce yoga in schools. Fast galloping percentage of obesity, heart attacks and diabetes cases have goaded the government to pay heed to introduce health enhancing activities like yoga, which, no doubt, is a...
Hunger is spreading its tentacles to capture thousands of children in its ambit day by day and this time it has victimized the children of Guatemala. The vast majority of them die in situations that never make the news. Their plight is serious, but too...
If you were asked, what a HIV/AIDS patients longs for, surely you will say proper medical treatment. However, suppose a patient is suffering from HIV/AIDS and is starving, even then would your answer be the same? I can dare say no..
Marie Lourdes...
The liberator from poverty has come to stay in the hunger-striken countries. This liberator is no human or an administrative body with relief-funds. But, here is a solution perhaps at the roots of the problem - the genetically modified cassava plants....
It is by 2015, we would witness an unnerverving global phenomenon. Yes, the world will have 100 million extra hungry people in less than 10 years to go! Scientists say. It was at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of...
There are hundreds of boys working as fisherboys on the Volta river in Ghana. The rough faces of these children are enough in itself to reveal the pain and trauma through which they undergo each day. Parents hand over their children to so called...
Mohammadu Nakilou, a Nigerian boy, is on a respirator because of a lung infection. Doctors find his condition critical and admitted that there are little chance of his survival. Starvation badly hit the immune system, as a result children are not able to...
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In this photo supplied by World Food Programme, (WFP) food is distributed in Musita, Gokwe South, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2008. The U.N. food aid agency found Zimbabweans reduced to eating wild fruits when it was able to reach the...
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