World Hunger and Poverty

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 also discuss […]

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 one of […]

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 insecurity. […]

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 poverty […]

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 needs, […]

Irshad Ali writes about child labor:
THE complex issue of child labour has emerged once again.
The notion that children are being exploited and forced into labour while not receiving an education crucial to development, concerns many people.
Children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions, putting their health, education, personal and social development, and even their lives […]

Naomi Spencer writes about homelessness in the United States:
While statistics do not capture the real social dimension of homelessness in the United States, new data confirm that the homeless face increasing brutality, criminalization and neglect. But like the growing poverty population, the suffering of the homeless population finds no meaningful reflection in the budget or […]

Uruknet reports on Iraqi children’s malnourishment four years after US invasion:
…malnutrition rates have risen in Iraq from 19 percent before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28 percent four years later.
Caritas says that rising hunger has been caused by high levels of insecurity, collapsed healthcare and other infrastructure, increased polarisation between different sects […]

Christian Charities in the UK demand government address poverty:
“Keep your promise to the poor” – that was the challenge from Christian charities to the UK Government at the launch of the Blow the Whistle campaign in Westminster this week.
World Vision Chief Executive Charles Badenoch said that the Government could have taken moral leadership when it […]

Amy Flowers Umble recently wrote about a documentary by Chad Amour that explores poverty, hunger, debt and kindness:
The 40-minute film covers some weighty topics: AIDS orphans, poverty, hunger and the debt carried by poor countries.
Miller said he tried to make the music hopeful as a counterpoint.
For instance, one song says, “I’ve got news for […]