Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with hunger www.salem-news.com 2010 About 3,000 “new poor” arrived to Caritas Spain in 2010. Most of them families who went from lassitude to homelessness in the wake of endless unemployment caused by the economic crisis. Most of the cases seen were families, about 74%. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/spain-poverty-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/spain-poverty-cf.php Mon, 21 May 2012 21:27:00 PDT The Transitional Justice Coordination Group appreciates the ten-year achievements in government-building, and other fields that have been reached with the participation of the people by the government and the international community for fulfillment of democracy. However, those trends have not taken root in our country... http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/chicago-conference.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/chicago-conference.php Sat, 19 May 2012 20:58:00 PDT In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/gay-marriage-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/gay-marriage-jp.php Fri, 18 May 2012 04:06:00 PDT Why can’t many Americans simply create jobs for themselves and others? For many jobs, a recently released report finds the answer is: The government won’t let them. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/work-licenses.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/work-licenses.php Tue, 15 May 2012 18:13:00 PDT Barry Soetoro rules the world’s most powerful democracy; Antonia Maino rules the world’s largest. One is a black man ruling over conservative white Amerika; the other is a white woman ruling over conservative black India. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132012/soetoro-maino-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132012/soetoro-maino-as.php Sun, 13 May 2012 19:18:00 PDT The destruction of our earth is coming from the massive industries behind fossil fuels, deforestation, industrial agriculture, extraction of natural resources, and the synthetic drug industry. But the wealthiest people in the world are pinning the blame on babies. And parents who made them. And they have a solution - vaccines! http://salem-news.com/articles/may132012/gates-mothers-day.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132012/gates-mothers-day.php Sun, 13 May 2012 12:56:00 PDT Congress currently is considering the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, commonly known as the “farm bill,” which would cut billions of dollars to public food assistance programs. Michelle Kaiser with the University of Missouri School of Social Work, says the cuts will affect approximately 50 million Americans struggling to meet their food needs. http://salem-news.com/articles/may092012/food-cuts.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092012/food-cuts.php Wed, 09 May 2012 18:07:00 PDT Does America do anything these days with a sincere purpose? Afghanistan's violence is our doing; it is a result of the contrast between stated intentions and reality. It's strangely sad that the only time of peace that this country has known in modern time, was a result of Communism. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/abandoned-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/abandoned-afghanistan.php Mon, 07 May 2012 01:34:00 PDT Former International Monetary Fund [IMF] bureaucrat Manmohan Singh was never projected as India’s Prime Minister; he was imposed on 1.2 billion hapless Indians. Former World Bank [WB] major domo Montek Singh was never elected yet lives a lavish life in Delhi. http://salem-news.com/articles/may062012/india-today-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may062012/india-today-as.php Sun, 06 May 2012 13:31:00 PDT I participated recently in the 'Welcome to Palestine' program headquartered in Bethlehem, the West Bank. On Thursday, April 19th, as part of the program, I was to travel with a group from the “Welcome to Palestine” program in order to confront Prime Minister Fayyad who had invited us to speak with him. http://salem-news.com/articles/april222012/ramallah-pm-meeting-fr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april222012/ramallah-pm-meeting-fr.php Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:17:00 PDT Pope Benedict XVI held a historic 3-day trip to Cuba. In the crowded Mass, which was celebrated in Havana, he stated: "If you follow my word, you are truly my disciples; know the truth and the truth shall make you free". Benedict XVI took only the Word of God to encourage the Cuban people to find the truth, that is, freedom. http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/pope-cuba-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/pope-cuba-cf.php Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:35:00 PDT Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos called for a coherent approach to addressing the humanitarian, development and political challenges in Somalia today at the London Conference. Ms. Amos emphasized the importance of dealing with the immediate needs of millions of Somalis and the longer-term development issues critical to helping the country build resilience. http://salem-news.com/articles/march262012/somalia-relief.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march262012/somalia-relief.php Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:56:00 PDT Americans redefined inhumane politics this week by pulling its annual $60 million contribution from UNESCO, because the UN agency accepted Palestine a few months ago as a member state. Palestinians live in walled off ghettos, their land has been increasingly seized by Israel for over six decades; they can't drive on 'Jewish only' roads... http://salem-news.com/articles/march162012/unesco-funding-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march162012/unesco-funding-tk.php Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:01:00 PDT Local resident, Nashville recording artist/songwriter BobbiLynn Forbus, is bringing ‘Hoedown For Humanity’, Winter Concert and Dance to benefit Marion/Polk Food Share to the Independence BPOE #1950. Located at 289 South Main Street, the event takes place Saturday March 17th 5pm-11pm. A bag of nonperishable food items per person, will be accepted as admission at the door. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/hoedown-humanity.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/hoedown-humanity.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:31:00 PST 200,000 Teens Will Give Up Food to Fight Global Hunger World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine, February 24 - 25. According to a new World Vision 30 Hour Famine study, conducted online in January by Harris Interactive, more than half of teens (55 percent) say social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have made them more aware of the needs of others. http://salem-news.com/articles/february162012/30-hour-famine.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february162012/30-hour-famine.php Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:16:00 PST A new study reconfirms what many people know from first-hand experience: Mexican workers' purchasing power has plummeted since the turn of the century. According to the analysis, Mexican workers earning the daily minimum wage had to toil 11.38 hours in December 2011 to buy a basic basket of commodities... http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/mexican-workers.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/mexican-workers.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:00 PST Let's consider some statistical facts that must be taken into account: A child, less than 5 years old, dies of hunger every 6 seconds. About 30 children die every 3 minutes from impoverishment. Studies reveal a total of 6 million children under 5 suffering from malnutrition worldwide. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/child-hunger-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/child-hunger-cf.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:25:00 PST Villagers in this contested region of India have been cordoned off by the Police. Entry and exit into the villages are controlled and restricted. Three prominent leaders remain behind bars for opposing the forcible occupation of their lands by POSCO, nominally Korean but largely an American and European banksters controlled firm. http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/poco-update-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/poco-update-as.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:00 PST We all know it is not just American and Lebanese politicians who use Palestinian refugees as political footballs during electoral campaigns. But they are currently the two most egregious apart from most Zionist politicians in temporarily occupied Palestine. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/sabra-shatila-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/sabra-shatila-fl.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:12:00 PST One hundred and fifty persons-men, women and children-have died of hunger in nineteen districts of Bihar in the past five years to 2011. The dead are mainly from the Dalit community. Some had the ‘red ration card’ with entitlement of 25 kg of rice at highly subsidized rates, yet they could not afford to buy even 50% of the entitlements. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172012/india-deaths-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172012/india-deaths-as.php Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PST There are millions of conflict victims in Afghanistan and the ongoing fighting creates new suffering every day. With a complex and contested wartime history, how can a way forward be found that satisfies victims’ demands for justice and healing while delivering the peace that is so desired. http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/conflict-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/conflict-afghanistan.php Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:59:00 PST Despite unlimited money and talk, most government stimulus aimed at small business is wasted, because most small businesses cannot do government work. That is because they cannot get bonded. They cannot get working capital. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/contractors-govt-my-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/contractors-govt-my-rb.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:38:00 PST 20 people were injured on the evening of Tuesday, January 3 in a grenade attack near an outdoor market of vegetables and fruits being at Nyabisindu in Gasabo District, close to the Stade Amahoro Kigali. Among the 20 injured, two of them would have died in the meantime, according to a diplomatic source who nevertheless remains to be confirmed by the police, we are told the correspondent on the spot from Reuters, Graham Holliday on his Twitter account. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/rwanda-attack-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/rwanda-attack-jf.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:52:00 PST Winter is often the worst time of year for very vulnerable displaced Afghan families. But once again, UNHCR and its partners are delivering winter supplies to help these families, whether returning refugees or internally displaced, face the freezing temperatures. As part of a coordinated response, together with Afghan authorities and other aid agencies, UNHCR will provide around 34,500 Afghan families – more than 200,000 individuals – with blankets, plastic sheets, fuel, and warm clothes such as sweaters, shawls, gloves, socks and waterproof shoes to stay warm and dry. http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/unhcr-afghan-refugees.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/unhcr-afghan-refugees.php Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:37:00 PST Christmas is fast approaching and food pantries along with “soup” kitchens across America are almost universally experiencing hardship. Not only are pantries suffering major shortages in supplies and donations, they are experiencing dramatically increased numbers of homeless and/or hungry patrons. In conversations with a number of Samaritan services throughout the nation a picture emerges that fails to support the “official” statements of elected representatives from Selectmen all the way up to the President. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/holiday-charity-mdp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/holiday-charity-mdp.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:43:00 PST The international community must seize the chance to put countries in the driving seat of their own development, anti-poverty agency ActionAid says, as the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness opens in Busan, Korea. ActionAid is calling for donors to agree to fund developing country government plans which directly benefit poor communities and enable citizens to hold their governments to account. http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/action-aid-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/action-aid-jf.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:25:00 PST If and when Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) releases its report later this month, as scheduled, it will do so amid wide scepticism on many critical fronts – except, it seems, for one. The credibility, independence and the ethnic balance of the post-war commission have been well-challenged internationally, since it was established by the President last year to ostensibly help reconcile the nation. But for the war’s tens of thousands of female survivors there has been little space and little said, by either the commission or its critics. http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/lanka-women-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/lanka-women-jb.php Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:08:00 PST The Nobel Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, when I met him in Cape Town, remarked, “Isn’t it wonderful that a Sinhalese should be campaigning for the Tamils for all these years?” I said that I did not think it ‘wonderful’ because this was not a Tamil problem or a Sinhalese problem but a humanitarian problem... http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/sri-lanka-danger-bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/sri-lanka-danger-bs.php Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:17:00 PST “Islam is a violent religion. That is why we are punishing them and will continue to do so for many years until they reform their idiotic aggressive and violent religion,” writes one “loyal American citizen”, unleashing a virulent polemic against Islam and Muslims. “I, as a loyal American citizen, am disturbed when we are attacked. You know what happened following Pearl Harbor. Unless the Islamists cease their aggressive activities, they will receive the same massive retribution,” threatens our dutiful but deluded denizen, obviously brainwashed beyond coherency by the Western media. http://salem-news.com/articles/november222011/loyal-american-yaw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november222011/loyal-american-yaw.php Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:00:00 PST As you are all aware Rwanda is now at a cross-roads as the people of Rwanda continue to experience the most gruesome, inhumane and degrading abuses under the current dictatorial regime of President Kagame whose wild behaviours are beyond comprehension. Indeed, these relentless man-made tragedies could be avoidable if the international community would continue to encourage and support a democratic and peaceful political settlement in order to allow the country to return to normalcy... http://salem-news.com/articles/november212011/rwanda-crossroads-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november212011/rwanda-crossroads-jf.php Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:43:00 PST