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""Tragic That Geldof Has To Be Famine Marker Again""

Press Association | By Tim Ross | May 30, 2003 Bob Geldof returned today to the area of Ethiopia worst hit by the 1984 famine. His visit nearly 20 years' ago led him to mount the Live Aid campaign to help millions of starving people.

Monterrey Consensus Must Become Reality, Annan Tells UN-Bretton Woods Meeting

April 22, 2002 The recent consensus on global development adopted at a United Nations conference in Monterrey, Mexico, must be transformed into reality, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told key finance ministers from across the world meeting with the UN Economic and Social Council in New York.

General Assembly Adopts Durban Declaration, Plan of Action

The U.N. General Assembly yesterday voted overwhelmingly to approve the declaration and plan of action from last year's World Conference against Racism, following a recommendation from the assembly's Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee.

New Trade Talks Must Address Right to Food, Says Special Rapporteur

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Drought Ravages Guatemala""s Children

The Washington Post | By Kevin Sullivan | March 19, 2002 Central America's worst drought in more than a decade has caused the deaths of more than 125 children in Guatemala, the hardest-hit country in a region in which thousands of lives are threatened by failing crops and spreading hunger, according to government officials and aid workers.

Does the U.S. Give Enough

Business Week | By Pete Engardio | March 18, 2002 In late March, President Bush and the leaders of Russia, Brazil, France, and dozens of other nations will convene at a Mexican ranch to discuss one of the world's most wrenching problems. Terrorism? Narcotics? No, the subject is global poverty.

At Risk: 56 Million Children

Toronto Star | By Rieky Stuart and Bernard Weil | March 15, 2002 More than 10 million children below the age of 5 died last year of preventable causes. If the world were on track to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, two million of them would be alive today.

Near Eastern Officials Endorse International Anti-Hunger Alliance

Asia Pulse | March 14, 2002 Ministers of agriculture and delegates from 24 Near Eastern countries have endorsed the establishment of an "International Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty" proposed by German President Johannes Rau at the UN annual World Food Day observance last October.

Poverty Tops Lawmakers"" Concerns in Post WTO China

Reuters | March 6, 2002 | by Tamora Vidaillet BEIJING - From north to south and east to west, delegates at China's annual session of parliament are echoing themes that resonate across the vast country - how to end poverty and corruption and what hardships membership of the world trade bloc will bring.

Amid the Affluence, US Hunger Is Growing

Boston Globe | March 3, 2002 | By David S. Broder