Irom Chanu Sharmila, who continues her relentless fight against State led violence using Gandhian values of non-violence, is about to complete nine years of Hunger strike on November 4. She continued with her ‘fast unto death’ campaign for nine years against the Armed Forces Special Power Act which has been in force in Manipur under the garb of fighting the separatists. In order to keep her alive, she has been...
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Global Hunger Index: Hunger Linked to Gender; India’s Situation “Alarming” by Saabira Chaudhuri
The 2009 Global Hunger Index (GHI), released last week by the International Food Policy Research Institute, sheds renewed light on just how acute India’s Hunger situation actually is. Although South Asia has made progress at combating Hunger since 1990, the IFPRI report terms the GHI in the region as being “distressingly high.” India is near the bottom, ranking at 65 (out of 84 countries) with a GHI of 23.90, which the...
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The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing Hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean have reduced Hunger significantly since 1990, but the GHI remains distressingly high in South Asia, which has made progress since 1990, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has...
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India is ranked a poor 65th in battling Hunger, according to the Global Hunger Index for 2009. The report, released on Wednesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute, German aid group WeltHungerhilfe and Irish aid group Concern Worldwide said the number of malnourished people was rising as a result of recent events. “The current situation of food crisis, financial crunch and global recession has further undermined the food security...
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Brazil and China have been praised for their efforts to tackle Hunger, in a development charity's report released to coincide with UN World Food Day. But the ActionAid report criticises India and others countries for not doing enough to alleviate the problem. The agency also ranked rich countries, saying Luxembourg is trying hardest to end global Hunger, while the US and New Zealand rank bottom. Studies estimate that one billion...
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