UN creates game to tackle hunger
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A forthcoming video game aims to educate children about the global fight against hunger.
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Hunger stalks survivors of the tsunami in outlying villages of Indonesia, the United Nations said, as the death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster soared above 226,000.
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The secretary general of the United Nations fights a war on many fronts in his crusade to bring human rights and peace to the world.
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The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations growing to more than 800 million people and rising, according to a U.N. report Wednesday.
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PlasmaNet Inc., which operates an online lotto game played by millions worldwide, approached Oxfam America in Boston with a unique concept to assist tsunami victims: Players on its website could volunteer to turn over their winnings to help Oxfam rebuild a village in Sri Lanka, where a plaque would honor them.
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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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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Call it a screen test for the United Nations' top job.
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With child obesity rates rising,  the U.S.'s biggest health maintenance organization on Tuesday  launched an online video game to teach kids what to eat -- and  then shut down after 20 minutes.
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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 urged Israel on Friday 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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- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gearing up for the most critical stage yet of its operation to deliver food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. As the rainy season ...
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A child still dies of hunger every five seconds despite a pledge to halve the world's hungry, a UN agency says.
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Vodafone is working with the U.N. World Food Program on a telecom system for aid agencies to use in times of disaster.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the UN food agency said.
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Hundreds of thousands of badly malnourished children with limited access to hospital care, could be given life-saving treatment at home with a locally-made peanut butter based food, U.N. aid agencies said.
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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.