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ActionAid International
HungerFREE Campaign Tells UN: 'Put food on the table'
October 5th, 2007
With 35,000 people dying of hunger every day and governments failing to meet their millennium commitment to halve hunger by 2015, the international development agency, ActionAid's HungerFREE campaign is calling for food and hunger to play a central role "on the table" of the 62nd United Nations General Assembly Meetings. "The UN is failing on its commitment to the world's poor. 11 years ago, governments committed to halving hunger by 2015 at the World Food Summit. At that time, there were 800 million hungry people across the globe. Today, 854 million are hungry. That's 17% of the world's population," said Thomas Johnny, Policy Research Manager at ActionAid Sierra...
Source: Health Business Week (2007-10-05)
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