"Hunger, like apartheid, is man made"
There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, and yet more than 1 billion people - 1 in every 6 - go hungry each day. This is a record-high number that continues to grow fueled by rising food and fuel prices, climate change, and the global economic crisis.
Children, women, and rural communities are on the frontlines of hunger. The UN estimates that one child dies every five seconds from preventable and treatable hunger-related causes - 17,000 children every day. Today's featured video - Hunger Inquest - comes from ActionAid and examines possible solutions to fighting hunger.
World leaders are meeting in Rome this week to address the global food crisis at the World Food Summit (WFS). The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization is asking developed countries to pledge to eradicate hunger by 2025 and increase their annual food aid to $44 billion. Meanwhile, civil society organizations are holding a parallel forum - the People's Food Sovereignty - to call for a greater representation of civil society voices in the WFS. Follow the developments on ActionAid's newsfeed.
in 1993 I , Wendolin Weber, was publicly exhibited on the Neuss (Germnay) marketplace (seen on the pic above) and like in the Reichskristallnacht publicly setup as a "Wucherjude" (extortioner). In the (Neuss / Koeln) christian understanding to be stoned. This Newspapaer Artikel was lauched by the city on Neuss (germany) the political Head of the Neuss Police and other members of the government body . IT was a public Lynchcampaign launched by members of the government body . prereleases of the Videoproject are also under : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlXYEOdGRdw
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