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New Trade Talks Must Address Right to Food, Says Special Rapporteur

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Drought Ravages Guatemala""s Children

The Washington Post | By Kevin Sullivan | March 19, 2002 Central America's worst drought in more than a decade has caused the deaths of more than 125 children in Guatemala, the hardest-hit country in a region in which thousands of lives are threatened by failing crops and spreading hunger, according to government officials and aid workers.

Does the U.S. Give Enough

Business Week | By Pete Engardio | March 18, 2002 In late March, President Bush and the leaders of Russia, Brazil, France, and dozens of other nations will convene at a Mexican ranch to discuss one of the world's most wrenching problems. Terrorism? Narcotics? No, the subject is global poverty.

At Risk: 56 Million Children

Toronto Star | By Rieky Stuart and Bernard Weil | March 15, 2002 More than 10 million children below the age of 5 died last year of preventable causes. If the world were on track to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, two million of them would be alive today.

Near Eastern Officials Endorse International Anti-Hunger Alliance

Asia Pulse | March 14, 2002 Ministers of agriculture and delegates from 24 Near Eastern countries have endorsed the establishment of an "International Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty" proposed by German President Johannes Rau at the UN annual World Food Day observance last October.

Poverty Tops Lawmakers"" Concerns in Post WTO China

Reuters | March 6, 2002 | by Tamora Vidaillet BEIJING - From north to south and east to west, delegates at China's annual session of parliament are echoing themes that resonate across the vast country - how to end poverty and corruption and what hardships membership of the world trade bloc will bring.

Amid the Affluence, US Hunger Is Growing

Boston Globe | March 3, 2002 | By David S. Broder

Overseas Lunch Program Questioned

Washington Post | March 1, 2002 | By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer Shortly before leaving office, President Bill Clinton decreed the government should spend $300 million in the coming year on a laudable goal -- providing school lunches to poor children overseas.

World Leaders Call for Increased Commitment of Resources by International Community to Combat Poverty

AScribe Newswire | February 22, 2002 At a high-level forum at The Carter Center, leaders and representatives of developing countries and international development organizations called attention to the lack of progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty.

Mayor""s Killing in Brazil State Churns Politics and Stirs Rage

New York Times | By LARRY ROHTER | January 21, 2002 The shooting death of the opposition mayor of a city bordering Sao Paulo, the latest in a series of attacks on leftist officials in Brazil's largest state, has plunged the country into a crisis that affects both public security and presidential politics.