UN Food Chief Urges Eastern Europe to Tackle Hunger
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The Executive Director of the World Food Program is urging ex-Soviet satellite states that joined the European Union in May and oil-rich Russia to do more to help reduce worldwide hunger.
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The United Nations on Friday voiced concern at a reported hunger strike by over 2,900 Palestinian prisoners which was launched two weeks ago to demand an end to inhuman conditions.
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The head of the United Nations World Food Program appealed to goverments Friday to provide more cargo aircraft and helicopters to deliver relief supplies to victims of the tsunami disaster but praised the world's generosity in aid so far.
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European nations are not doing enough to fight climate change and should show more leadership before they criticize the United States and Asia, the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said on Saturday.
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Drought, AIDS and chronic  poverty in the landlocked southern African states of Lesotho,  Swaziland and Zimbabwe are putting hundreds of thousands at  risk of hunger, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned on Friday that the plight of hundreds of millions of hungry people around the world has been overshadowed by the crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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The United Nationsâ top food and agriculture official said Monday that the world food supply is dwindling and that food prices are soaring to historic levels.
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The United Nations' world food body outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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United Nations Mideast peace envoy Terje Roed-Larsen Friday urged Israeli prison authorities to ensure the well-being of Palestinian hunger strikers.
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Ukraine's president called for the creation Wednesday of a free trade zone between his country and Hungary, a European Union member.
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Nearly 800,000 people will need some form of food assistance in Indonesia's Aceh province as it recovers from the devastating Dec. 26 tsunami, the head of the U.N.'s food aid agency in the region said Monday.
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The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that a food crisis could be looming across east and west Africa due to the massive damage wrought on crops by ongoing flooding.
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A senior EU official said on Thursday  urgent action was needed to tackle obesity among Europe's young  and warned the food industry it faced legislation in a year  unless it stopped advertising junk food to children.
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Famine in Africa could worsen  unless action is taken to tackle the continent's HIV/AIDS  epidemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies.
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PALESTINIANS being held in Israeli prisons appealed today for international intervention to prevent their hunger strike developing into a &quot;humanitarian disaster&quot; as Israeli rights groups also condemned their treatment.
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World leaders gather at U.N.  headquarters on Monday to inject new life into a global  campaign to eradicate hunger, which conference organizer Brazil  denounces as "the worst of all weapons of mass destruction."