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March 27, 2024

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The UN says households waste 1 billion meals a day

Households around the world threw away one billion meals every day in 2022 in what the United Nations on Wednesday called a “global tragedy” of food waste. More than $1 trillion worth of food was wasted by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people went hungry, the latest UN Food Waste Index Report says. It said more than 1 billion tonnes of food — almost a fifth of all products on the market — was wasted in 2022, most of it by households. “Food waste is a global tragedy. Millions will go hungry today as food

March 24, 2024

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An Indian activist’s hunger strike for Ladakh autonomy is gathering support

SRINAGAR/ NEW DELHI: Prominent Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk, on hunger strike to bring autonomy to the Himalayan region of Ladakh, said on Saturday he was weak as his fast entered its 18th day, but would continue for three more days as planned despite appeals of supporters to stop. Wangchuk’s campaign seeks to highlight the damage to Ladakh’s fragile ecology and glaciers from industrialization as well as to protest what locals call encroachment by China. He is determined to complete a 21-day hunger strike, although supporters have urged him to end it early for fear of further deterioration in his health,

March 13, 2024

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In Afghanistan, women and children suffer the worst of the hunger crisis

CONSTANTINOPLE: Afghanistan is one of many countries around the world facing a food crisis, where a combination of politics, economics and natural disasters have taken a heavy toll on huge swathes of a vulnerable population. In a country emerging from decades of war and turmoil, women and children are among those particularly affected by food insecurity, according to the UN’s World Food Program (WFP). “Some of the most affected by the hunger crisis right now are women and girls,” said Philippe Kropf, WFP’s head of communications in Afghanistan. Anatolia. Currently, a third of the Afghan population, or nearly 16 million

March 5, 2024

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As the hunger crisis in Gaza worsens, emaciated children are seen

GAUZE: Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a striped blouse, lay side by side on a bed in a Gaza clinic, their thin, bony legs protruding from the diapers that covered them. it seemed too big. That was the scene on Monday at the Al-Awda Health Center in Rafah, southern Gaza, where nurse Diaa Al-Shaer said children suffering from malnutrition and a range of illnesses were reaching unprecedented numbers. “We will be dealing with a large number of patients suffering from this, which is malnutrition,” he said. The

December 21, 2023

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Gaza’s children are starving as war hampers food deliveries

RAFAH: Displaced children in southern Gaza craved chicken, but all their mother had left to feed the family for the day was a box of peas donated by a man who felt sorry for her when he saw her cry. Left homeless by Israel’s military offensive against Hamas, like most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, Tahany Nasr was in a camp in Rafah, focused on just one thing: how to find enough food and water for everyone to spend another day. She said her children had lost weight and felt dizzy because they weren’t eating enough. “I begged to

December 12, 2023

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Hunger Grows in Gaza as UN Votes on Ceasefire Resolution

UNITED NATIONS/GAZA: Hunger has worsened among Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, aid groups said, as the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on Tuesday on an immediate humanitarian truce in the two-month conflict between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds more civilians have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza since the US on Friday vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes and residents say it is impossible to find shelter or food in the densely populated coastal enclave. The UN’s World Food Program said half

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