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U.S.: Nearly One in Six Citizens Went Hungry in 2008
- Inter Press Service
As the World Food Security Summit got under way in Rome Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) disclosed that nearly one in six U.S. households went hungry at some time during 2008, the highest level since it began monitoring food security levels in 1995.
LATIN AMERICA: Community-Based Social Innovation Wins Prizes
- Inter Press Service
Community control of public funds will no longer be just an effective local idea, put into practice by social activists and community leaders in a town in southern Brazil. Now that it has won first prize in ECLAC's fifth Social Innovation Contest, it is likely to spread throughout Latin America.
MIDEAST: Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
RIGHTS-TURKEY: Transforming Men from Culprits to Allies
- Inter Press Service
Success in fighting violence against women may well hinge on partnership with an often overlooked but still a critically vital party - men themselves.
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit Passes Toothless Declaration
- Inter Press Service
Fears that the United Nations World Food Security Summit would fail to deliver effective measures to defeat hunger were borne out Monday when world leaders and government officials approved a toothless declaration on the first day.
HEALTH-AFRICA: On ART Since Birth
- Inter Press Service
Seven-year-old Ntombi* frowns after swallowing the tablets her grandmother has given her. The HIV positive child has contracted multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB.
CHILE: Mapuche Voices from Prison
- Inter Press Service
'If the government says let's sit down and try to reach a solution, we'll be there,' Héctor Llaitul, a leader of the radical Mapuche organisation Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), who is in prison in the southern Chilean region of Bío-Bío, told a group of foreign correspondents.
DEVELOPMENT: Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?
- Inter Press Service
World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.
JAPAN: Obama Visit Hailed, But Left Crucial Questions Unanswered
- Inter Press Service
Setting foot on the Land of Cherry Blossom over the weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama waxed nostalgic, recalling his first visit to Japan as a young boy, when his mother brought him there.
JAPAN: Obama Visit Hailed, But Left Crucial Questions Unanswered
- Inter Press Service
Setting foot on the Land of Cherry Blossom over the weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama waxed nostalgic, recalling his first visit to Japan as a young boy, when his mother brought him there.
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