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Oct 10 2008, Provimar

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...

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Sep 23 2008 by AP1 Comments

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.

 
 
Aug 12 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Aug 12 2008 by AP0 Comments

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:

 
 
Aug 12 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Aug 12 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jul 22 2008 by AP1 Comments

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....

 
 
Apr 14 2008 by AP0 Comments

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,...

 
 
Dec 24 2007 by AP0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 27 2007 by AP0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 21 2007 by AP0 Comments

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...

 
 
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Jul 16 2007 by Swati S0 Comments

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...

 
 
Mar 9 2007 by Pooja0 Comments

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...

 
 
Mar 2 2007 by Pooja0 Comments

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...

 
 
Dec 14 2006 by Anupam Agnihotri0 Comments

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...

 
 
Dec 12 2006 by Pooja0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 12 2006 by Anupam Agnihotri0 Comments

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...

 
 
May 26 2006 by Irani0 Comments

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....

 
 
Feb 18 2006 by Irani0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 18 2005 by Bhawana Negi0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 11 2005 by Bhawana Negi0 Comments

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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Inflation has spared none so far and no, Gods are not going to be spared either. Food prices have sky rocketed all over the globe in past few months and it is has hit...
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People in the world interested in geopolitical history know that We must understand that the superficial depiction of Islam in the west is mainly propaganda. Propaganda...
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Pakistan is an agriculture based country with most of its population living in rural areas practicing agriculture, yet it is one of the many developing nations facing a...
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This is too good not to pass on to you. It made my day and is keeping me from going to sleep. Imagine we finally allow hungry people in Africa to be fed using food...
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Canada is a great place to live; we have an abundance of resources, high paying jobs, in comparison to most of the world, a relatively peaceful way of life with little...
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Unheard Voices Blog quotes UNDP which hit the panic button for Bangladesh last month: “Skyrocketing oil prices have driven up the cost of food worldwide, but...
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Maynard, Manila
The rising trend of food crisis in the Philippines is beginning to blow out of proportions as this problem is expected to continue until 2010. According to one of the...
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WILLIAM, kidderminster
WHEN THE LAST BELL RINGS on kenya it will be as a direct result of lack of forceful energy and imput from major Nations. Self denial is a grand thing, but when...
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Kanchan, New Delhi
One child dies of hunger every four seconds, every five seconds, a child dies from malnutrition-related diseases! While a restless climate, drought and famine rage...
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Vipin, Lucknow
It is ‘a terrible indictment of the world in 2007′ that 18,000 children die daily due to hunger and malnutrition, and 850 million people go to bed every...
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Johnny, Bogota
Colombians live in a country that has many resources to produce food. We have plenty of water, the possibility of having all sorts of crops and a variety of animals...
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Vicki, Harare
Whatever happens with the ongoing negotiation impasse in Zimbabwe, there are social realities that no agreement will be able to reconcile. Even if the process of...
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Nazeema, Pretoria
Children in Zimbabwe are eating rats and inedible roots riddled with toxic parasites to stave off hunger because of chronic food shortages, an aid agency said on...
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Ramesh, Bangkok
A day after Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Britain not to waste food, a disgusted British press dished out in great detail - with liberal servings of irony - the...
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Vikas, solan
It seems that just thinking about your own death can make you reach for the cookie jar, with an international study finding that morbid thoughts tend to whet the...
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Vikas, solan
High levels of the “hunger hormone” ghrelin have an antidepressant effect, US researchers claim. Blocking the body’s response to ghrelin has been...
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Justin, Baton Rouge
Scientists are finding that the same chemical in your stomach that causes hunger also changes how your brain perceives food, as this ScienCentral News video explains.
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Peter, Rome
“The World According to Monsanto” by a French independent filmmaker, Marie-Monique Robin researches the credibility of (or rather lack thereof) US based...
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Pooja, Shimla
Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the...
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Musita:

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...