More than 42 million inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger. This is around 6.5% of their population, totalling 662 million. Persistent inequalities deepen food insecurity for the population who are in a situation of poverty. Sergio Ferrari Today hunger is greater than during pre-Covid […]
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Food insecurity and malnutrition in Latin America
In the Latin America and the Caribbean region, healthy eating costs more than anywhere else on the planet. Sergio Ferrari Between 2020 and 2021, the cost of eating a healthy diet in the region increased by 5.3 per cent due to food inflation driven by the pandemic […]
Israel-Gaza war: Condemning the intention of genocide
Up until the closure of this current edition, 1.7 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have been forced to abandon their land, belongings and lives as a result of the attacks committed by the Israeli army. This was reported by several non-governmental organisations who consider this forced displacement “to […]
Tooba Gondal: the British woman who recruited women for Isis
ISIS peaked in 2015-16, but its recruitment in Western societies grew from conditions that have not changed. They include sexism, and moral emptiness. Where politics is moribund, the simplicity of religious fundamentalism offers a solution, including to middle-class Muslim women.
Children: never before more at risk
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), children have not been at greater risk since the Declaration was adopted 34 years ago. Today, nearly 400 million children (one fifth of that population) live in or flee conflict zones. Elizabeth Borrego Rodriguez “Unfortunately, children today live in a […]