Topic: Hunger
Pandemic may have pushed 100 million into extreme poverty: World Bank
The World Bank has warned that the coronavirus pandemic may drive as many as 100 million people back into extreme poverty.
More people are going hungry: Annual study by United Nations
More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition.
Yemen: UN issues desperate plea for people in heart of world’s worst humanitarian disaster
More than eight million people in the war-torn country, nearly half of them children, directly depend on the agency for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), amid ongoing conflict, cholera outbreaks and the COVID-19 pandemic.
RJD leader Tejashwi offers Rs 5 lakh for kids of woman who died on train
The leader of the opposition in Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav announced financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh for both the children of Arbina Khatoon, a migrant mother who died due to heat and hunger while returning from Ahmedabad by a Shramik special train to Muzaffarpur on Monday.
His mother died of extreme heat, hunger, and dehydration
A video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother at the Muzaffarpur railway station in Bihar was widely shared on social media on Wednesday, is the latest visual to emerge from the humanitarian crisis of millions of migrant workers affected by the unplanned lockdown to tackle the coronavirus in India.
As job losses escalate, half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods: ILO
The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to the COVID-19 outbreak means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy – that is nearly half of the global workforce – stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed, warns the International Labour Organization.
