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EU shooting wide of the mark on international poverty goals
As leaders meet in Brussels today (Thursday 17 June) to discuss the Millennium Development Goals development agencies say that the European Union must step up and score a goal against poverty.
Hunger hourglass greets EU Foreign Ministers
ActionAid activists from across Europe today (Monday June 14) called on EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Luxembourg to agree a rescue package to get their commitments on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back on track and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse for not tackling hunger and poverty.
Time is running out to meet MDG1
There are only 5 years left to save the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
MDG 1 seeks to halve hunger by 2015. But if current trends continue, more than 1.5 billion people will be hungry by then. We know the solutions but governments need to commit to the promises they made in 2000.
Get Wall Street to stop gambling on hunger
What does Wall Street have to do with global hunger? As it turns out – everything. Trying to make quick money, speculators drove food and energy prices up, which in turn forced millions of people into chronic and extreme hunger. ActionAid USA is fighting to help stop this.
