U.N. Meeting Hopes to Energize Anti-Hunger Campaign
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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." ...
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Political leaders and global business chiefs will meet in Geneva next month to step up efforts for progress on climate change, human rights and the fight against corruption, the United Nations said on Monday.
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JERUSALEM -- The United Nations urged Israel yesterday to find a solution to a 13-day-old hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, reminding Israel of its obligations under international law and human rights conventions.
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Impoverished North Korea's first steps to take apart its nuclear arms program may reap the reward of food aid from the South when the two hold their first high-level meeting in months on Tuesday.
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A forthcoming video game aims to educate children about the global fight against hunger.
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Countries that could contribute to an expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon were to meet Thursday to find out how the troops will operate, and U.N. officials hoped many would commit soldiers to the force.
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Millions of people marked an  annual International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on  Wednesday by joining a mass "stand up" around the world aimed  at promoting U.N. targets on reducing poverty.
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The United Nations and the African Union plan a meeting in Libya this month on how to advance peace talks among rebel groups in violent Darfur where 2.5 million people are homeless, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
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The United States, the world's largest donor of food aid, needs to budget more than a proposed $1.2 billion a year to fight hunger effectively around the world, an anti-hunger coalition recommended on Monday.
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Tens of thousands of children marched against hunger in Liberia Sunday, adding their voices to a global event to tackle food shortages that many in the war-battered west African nation have felt firsthand.
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The United Nations will launch a global  campaign Monday aimed at ensuring every school in the world has  clean water and sanitation within a decade, cutting health  risks and raising attendance.
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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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Science and technology could do far more to end hunger and poverty than politicians realise, United Nations advisers say.
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Children raced to help parents collect food from U.N. aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip as women sat in the shade near trucks, waiting for their names to be called to receive their food rations.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  together to help victims of the most wide-reaching natural  disaster in living memory as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan  declared they were in a "race against time."
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Anti-poverty and anti-globalisation campaigners meeting at a parallel forum to counter the G8 summit on Wednesday took industrialised nations to task over unfulfilled pledges made two years ago to the world&#39;s poorest.
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PADUA, Italy, Nov 22 (IPS) - Civil society groups preparing for the World Social  Forum in January are building up a campaign to make the United  Nations an instrument for change that empowers people.