World Hunger News January 23 to February
23, 2010
The articles below were published in Hunger Notes between January
23, 2010 and February 23, 2010 and are now on the Hunger Notes front page,
www.worldhunger.org.
United States
Millions of Americans are out of work, out of savings, and at the end of their
unemployment compensation, with no jobs in sight Peter S. Goodman New York Times
States consider Medicaid cuts as use grows Kevin Sack and Robert
Pear New York Times
El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, border towns on each side of the Rio Grande, are
worlds apart in violence caused by drug importation to the United States
Dan Barry New York Times
See the New York Times series 'War without borders' on drug
trafficking between Mexico and the United States.
US officials hopeful China will make concessions on currency. (Undervalued
Chinese currency has led to US trade deficits with China, and loss of US jobs.)
John Pomfret Washington Post
Lt.
Gov. Andre Bauer of South Carolina : "Don't feed the poor. They'll breed."
YouTube
The poor are powerless and thus we remain silent about Bauer's remarks
(Commentary) Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald
Once stigmatized, food stamps find acceptance Jason DeParle
and Robert Gebeloff New York Times
Africa
Military coup overthrows Niger president Tandja, who was planning to
stay in power indefinitely Adam Nossiter New York Times
Malnutrition and high food insecurity predicted in Niger IRIN News
UN officials criticize US restrictions on Somalia aid Sudarsan
Raghavan Washington Post
South
African president Zuma 'deeply regrets pain' over love-child fathered with a
woman who was not one of his wives BBC News
President Zuma gives exactly the wrong lesson on HIV prevention (multiple
sexual partners and no condoms--the principal way HIV is spread) to a nation
where HIV is the biggest killer Kerry Cullinan Health-e
(Zambia)
South Africa: A day in the life of a sex worker IRIN News
Asia
Amid starvation, runaway inflation, and food shortages in the Army, North Korea
fires top economic officials, South Korean press reports Blaine
Hardin Washington Post
Nepal: Why are so many young women killing themselves? IRIN News
Global
International humanitarian emergency aid system gets a 'B-minus' IRIN News
See report:
The State of the Humanitarian System (76 page PDF
file)
Study considers the future of humanitarian aid IRIN News
See report:
Humanitarian Horizons: A Practitioners' Guide to the Future
Many governments target rights defenders
in order to suppress human rights, Human Rights Watch says in a 90 country
report Hunger Notes
See
Hunger Notes special report: Harmful economic systems
.
Bleak portrait of Haiti orphanages raises fears for the children
Ginger Thompson New York Times
Only one man is left to help tuberculosis patients amid the rubble of Haiti's
only TB sanatorium Ian Urbina New York Times
(Factsheet: Haiti has the highest rate of TB in the Western
Hemisphere)
Education was also leveled by the quake in Haiti Marc Lacey
New York Times February 13, 2010
Special report: Food as a Human Right (Update):
UN Human Rights committee gives
preliminary recognition to
peasants' rights-- report describes
marginalization of peasants, rural women
and traditional fishing, hunting, and
herding communities, reducing access to
food among the poorest people
FIAN International See the report (MS Word file): "Report
on discrimination in the context of the
right to food
A/HRC/AC/4/2: "
Opinion
Who benefits
from coltan (DR Congo’s magic dust that has played a central
role in transforming modern technology)?
Khadija Sharife
Pambazuka News
The worst of the pain of the economic crisis is felt by low
income households--the lowest income group had unemployment
of 30 percent while the highest income group had
unemployment of 3 percent--yet there is a willful refusal by
politicians and the media to focus on those who are
suffering the most Bob Herbert
New York Times
South Africa’s
‘bling’ culture is a disgrace William Gumede
Hungry in America New York Times
The poor are powerless and thus we remain silent about
Bauer's remarks Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald
Obama moves
ahead with Africom Daniel Volman
Africa Security Research Project J Also see the Congressional Research Service
report,
Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of
the U.S. Military in Africa (pdf file)
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