World hunger on the rise, UN report says
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ROME -- The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations estimated at more than 800 million people and rising, according to a UN report yesterday.
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More than 100 countries have endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion (28 billion pounds) a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the
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A new U.N. report showed a sharp increase in child malnutrition rates compared with last year, despite the efforts of more than 12,000 relief workers.
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Reuters London Oct 29: UN figures on Afghanistan will show a big rise in drug cultivation and production in the past year, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw has said, as he chided international donors for not meeting their pledges.
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The number of women infected with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the last two years as the global AIDS epidemic continues to expand, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Malnutrition has increased among children in Darfur over the past year despite a massive humanitarian aid effort in the war-torn Sudanese region, according to a U.N. report obtained Thursday.
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NAIROBI, Dec 30  - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said it had started distributing food to Somali survivors of the deadly tsunami wave that struck the country&#39;s Indian Ocean coast at the weekend, as the death toll climbed
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The rapid growth of slums in the world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Science and technology could do far more to end hunger and poverty than politicians realise, United Nations advisers say.
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The United Nations released its annual population report on Wednesday, and it said it needs more money for population programs. A top United Nations official says if more money isn&#39;t found for population programs
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The number of hungry people in the world has hardly budged in the eight years since nations pledged to cut the number in half by 2015, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.
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The rapid growth of slums in the  world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and  creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution  and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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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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World Leaders Monday held a UN conference organized by Brazil&#39;s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to fill the $50 billion hunger gap.
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A UN report -- noting while opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was up 64 percent the past year, opium production had only increased 17 -- has still led one UN official
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For the first time in nine years, the estimated number of people going hungry around the world has increased, reversing a trend and raising new questions about global inequities.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Malnutrition has increased among children in Darfur over the past year despite a massive humanitarian aid effort in the war-torn Sudanese region, according to a U.N. report obtained Thursday.