Monthly Archives: March 2007

The People’s Daily Online reports about about the 4th World Congress of Rural Women: Illiteracy, hunger, abuse and other challenges confronting rural women around the world will become focal issues at an international conference late next month in South Africa, a South African official said on Thursday. About 2,000 delegates from around the world will […]

David Cronin writes about a delaration to drive back poverty: The 50th anniversary of the European Union has been marked by a declaration committing the 27-country bloc to “drive back poverty, hunger and disease” throughout the world. “While the 50th anniversary is surely a time for celebration, it is also a time to reflect on […]

I live in Connecticut, so I especially noticed a recent article in The Daily Campus about a local hunger workshop called Hunger 101. I include an excerpt of the article: It is a common misconception that hunger is more of a global than a local issue, but roughly 100,000 people in Connecticut suffer from food […]

Vice President of India, Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat calls poverty a blot on any civilized society. I post an excerpt of a press release on pib.nic.in: Shri Shekhawat while releasing the book “Poverty and Hunger: Causes and Consequences” by Dr. Ratan Das, an eminent Gandhian and Sarvodaya leader said that success of any programme of […]

Jeffrey D. Sachs recently wrote an article about extreme poverty: Around one billion people live in extreme poverty, suffering from economic deprivation so severe that they must struggle daily for survival. Extreme poverty is sometimes defined as living on under $1 a day, but more accurately it is the lack of reliable access to basic […]