Topic: Hunger
Palestinians are eating animal feed to stay alive in Gaza: ActionAid
Hunger in Gaza has become so serious that people have even run out of animal feed to eat, development charity ActionAid has said.
Israel using hunger ‘as a weapon’ against population of Gaza, says UN
Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said that all children under the age of five in Gaza are not getting enough nutrition and are at risk of permanent physical and cognitive impairment.
Hunger in Gaza ‘highest ever recorded’, over half a million people at catastrophic levels, warns UN report
A report published by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Thursday says that the proportion of households facing crisis levels of hunger is the highest it has ever recorded globally.
Global Hunger Index: India ranked 111 of 125 countries, Modi govt criticises report
India with a score of 28.7 ranked 111th of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023, according to a report released on Thursday.
Around 258 million in 58 countries need emergency food aid: UN report
The number of people who need urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, due to conflict, climatic change, and COVID-19 impacts, the UN and partners said in a report published on Wednesday.
Like racism and sexism, ‘povertyism’ should be illegal, UN says
Although the global cost-of-living crisis will be an obstacle to eradicating poverty by 2030, countries can still make significant progress towards this Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), UN-appointed human rights expert Olivier de Schutter has said.
