Las naciones de todo el mundo se han apresurado a tomar medidas de emergencia a raíz del COVID-19, ya que las empresas se vieron interrumpidas, las líneas de suministro se cortaron y las economías se atrofiaron, lo que dejó a los programas de ayuda exterior con fondos insuficientes y a millones sin alimentos.
"Hasta 12,000 personas podrían morir cada día por hambre relacionada con COVID, que es más que las que mueren diariamente por el virus", advierte el presidente de Oxfam América, Abby Maxman.
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have already devastated the world. Over 14 million people have tested positive for the virus, and nearly 600,000 have died since it was first identified in December. And cases continue to rise: yesterday saw 248,998 people test positive – an all-time high. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros
MintPress News habló con varias personas en primera línea que intentaban mantener a Estados Unidos alimentado durante la peor pandemia en un siglo.
At least 10,000 cars line up in an orderly fashion in San Antonio, all full of hungry, increasingly desperate people. Thousands already arrived the night before just to get a chance to eat. “We just can’t feed this many,”
Si bien a EE. UU. Le gusta caracterizar sus esfuerzos de cambio de régimen en Venezuela como humanitarios en su naturaleza, la selección de funcionarios involucrados en un programa en el que confían tantos venezolanos comunes revela que EE. UU. Pretende instalar al líder opositor Juan Guaido por cualquier medio que sea necesario.
CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- The U.S. government is preparing to levy sanctions against officials associated with Venezuela’s food subsidy program known as CLAP, the latest in a long list of unilateral coercive measures against the country. The new sanctions follow a report by
Unlike so much liberal and progressive political discourse in the US, which is obsessed with the personality of President Trump, the international perspective of this conference penetrated that distracting fog and concentrated on the continuity of US militarism regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
For the first time in the history of humanity, the technical means are at hand to eliminate poverty if resources were not diverted to
The war has given rise to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Three-quarters of Yemen’s people require life-saving assistance and more than 8 million are at risk of starvation. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the fighting.
A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of the country's civil war in 2015. Save the Children based its figures on mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition, or SAM, in young children. The United
Habiendo rechazado medidas para hacer que los alimentos reales sean asequibles para los pobres de Sao Paulo, el alcalde Joao Doria ahora está apresurándose con un plan que incentivaría a las empresas a donar productos alimenticios no vendibles para su conversión en "farinata", bolitas de alimentos de dudosa seguridad y valor nutricional.
A new, controversial plan to feed low-income children and adults in São Paulo with powder pellets made from nearly expired food has drawn the ire of critics, who have called the product “human pet food.” The plan was
