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LINKS
Amnesty International

Anti Slavery

Asian Human Rights Commission

China Support Network

Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Dalit Human Rights

Fight Impunity In India

Food First

Forum 18 News

Global Rights Partnership

Global Human Rights Defence

International Order of Human Rights

Justice for the World

Liberty in North Korea

Tearfund

Refugees International

Mercy Corps

OXFAM

HOPE

Africa Crisis

GOAL

FOCUS

National Association for the Prevention of Starvation
UNICEF
UNWFP
Save the Children
Feed The Children

UNHCHR
UNHCR

Love Without Boundaries

Red Cross: Southern Africa

Sudan Watch

Harvest Help

SOS Children: Aids Africa

GondarLink

African Children's Educational Trust (A-CET)

Street Child Africa

SOS Africa

Women in Progress

Childaid Voluntary work Ghana

Hope Africa

Fondation Maisha

Build the Future

ISOSS - International SOS Society

Stand Up For Africa

Somali Poverty Relief and Rural Development Organisation

VolunteerAfrica

The Life in Africa Foundation

Orphans in Africa

Asia Relief

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FACTS
In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
Every year 15 million children die of hunger
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished
In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Over 22 million people have died from AIDS.
Over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Over 19 million women are living with HIV/AIDS.
By the year 2010, five countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, China, India, and Russia) with 40 percent of the world's population will add 50 to 75 million infected people to the worldwide pool of HIV disease.
There are 14,000 new infections every day (95 percent in developing countries). HIV/AIDS is a "disease of young people" with half of the 5 million new infections each year occurring among people ages 15 to 24.
The UN estimates that, currently, there are 14 million AIDS orphans and that by 2010 there will be 25 million.
African Americans living in San Francisco have the highest* prevalence rate of HIV at 4.7% followed by whites at 3.7% Latinos 2.4% Native Americans at 2.0% followed by Asian Pacific Islanders at 3%
. For African American men who have sex with men HIV prevalence is estimated at 55% overall (SFDPH 2001a). Among anonymous testers, prevalence was 9.7% (SFDPHb). Another study found a 29% prevalence (Catina et al 2001). Collectively, this data suggests that African Americans have the highest prevalence of any MSM population.
The HIV/AIDS infection rate among Black men is 6 times that of white men and the rate among Black women is 16 times that of white women
The number of men with AIDS per 100,000 population includes:
Blacks - 125
Hispanics - 58
Whites - 18
American Indian/Alaska native - 16
Asian/Pacific Islander - 9
The number of women with AIDS per 100,000 population includes:
Blacks -50
Hispanics -17
American Indian/Alaska native - 4
Whites - 2
Asian/Pacific Islander - 1
More children with AIDS are Black than all other race and ethnic groups combined
By the end of 2005, women accounted for 48% of all adults living with HIV worldwide, and for 59% in sub-Saharan Africa.
Young people (15-24 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide - around 6,000 become infected with HIV every day.
In developing and transitional countries, 6.8 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 1.65 million are receiving the drugs.
films
amu
black,
blood in the face
beyond borders
nepal: between two sones
invisible children
the camden 28
conversations on a sunday afternoon
de nadie
dreaming lhasa
forest for the trees
i know i'm not alone
k2
men on the edge
punam
rain in a dry land
the constant gardener
the refugee all stars
rosita
source
switch off
total denial
winter in baghdad
from north to south
peace under fire
hamburg cell
3 rooms of melancholia
lost boys of sudan
hopes on the horizon
the diary on angelina jolie and dr jeffrey sachs; africa
after shock
congo's curse
deadly catch
hungry for help
razors edge
the long journey home
the 8th plague
our bodies...their battleground
bittersweet harvest
uganda's forgotten emergency
to name a few...

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books

revolution on my mind
international human rights incontext
crisis negotiations
pathologies of power
the lost boys of sudan
inside sudan
the suitcase
cambodia now
darfur: short history of a long war
slave
lost boy no more
the state of the world's refugees
refugee sandwich
human cargo
my travels: diary of angelina jolie
the children: refugees and migrants
in hope and despair,
echoes from dharamsala
letters from palestine
this is our exile
surviving the slaughter
singing to the dead
jumping to heaven
a scorching hot time in sudan
starvation heights
hunger:by amy flanegan
hunger and shame
africa:the holocast of rwanda and sudan
coping with torture ...to name a few

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