Compared with the amount of visitors we get at the Hunger & Poverty Forums, not many people join and talk. It seems people don’t have too much interest in discussing issues such as hunger, poverty and disease. I suppose I can understand, because these topics come across as depressing and very serious, and people generally […]
The following video shows glimpses of children around the world, with a song by Tim Janis, in support of CROP Hunger Walks. The song is sung by school children in Kenya.
Poverty & Hunger Facts:
18,000 children die everyday from hunger.
Globally, over 1 billion children live in poverty.
In the United States, 14 million children live in food […]
Following is an excerpt from the Turkish report “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006″ published by The Information Office of the State Council on Thursday:
On March 6, the U.S. Department of State released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006. As in previous years, the State Department pointed the […]
Mangalorean.com recently reported about a poverty stricken villager killing his children and himself:
Facing acute poverty and hunger, a tribal man in Bihar committed suicide by jumping into a gushing river after first throwing his four children into the water. Only one child survived.
Triloki Uraon, 45, a landless farm worker, plunged into the river near the […]
Caycompass.com reports about a Latin American summit:
Latin American leaders have called for greater attention to poverty and social problems at the 20–nation Rio Group summit, in a largely symbolic declaration that was light on specific remedies.
An agenda devoted to alleviating hunger, poverty and other social ills was considered more likely to establish common ground than […]
Capital News 9 recently reported on a conference held in Albany, NY to address urban poverty and hunger issues:
This weekend, the Times Union reported that urban poverty in the Capital Region is growing exponentially. Local community members met Sunday to address this and other hunger issues at the annual Faith and Hunger Network Conference. The […]
Carl B. Visser writes that the working poor need help to beat poverty:
People work hard to get out of poverty. To stay out, some families need the kinds of strategies and supports that will make a long-term impact on their ability to get to the next level and continuously closer to true self-sufficiency. Individuals and […]
A.R. Rahman’s English single “Pray For Me Brother” will be the UN’s anthem for its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign.
Music has the power to inspire people. I hope this song inspires the world to increase the efforts to end poverty, hunger, and homelessness. Unfortunately, at the current pace, we cannot reach the MDGs.
In a recent article, Yuba Nath Lamsal describes Nepal’s commitment to meet the UN’s MDGs. In it, she makes a very valuable point about global poverty which I now quote:
“Faster economic growth is a key to reducing poverty. However, economic growth alone does not reduce or alleviate poverty which has been the case in several […]
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