Food security: Kenya urged to involve youth, innovate
Kenya must involve the youth as well as strive to innovate her agricultural sector if it has to assure her citizens on food security, experts meeting at an agricultural forum by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in partnership with the Agriculture Sector Coordination Unit (ASCU) and the Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat (VDS) [...]
Saudi Arabia: Free Editor Ra’if Badawi Held Under Cybercrime Law
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Re: Saudi Arabia: Free Editor Ra’if Badawi Held Under Cybercrime Law Dear Prime Minister, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I have been informed by Human Rights Watch and credible sources within Saudi Arabia that prosecutors have charged Ra’if Badawi under the 2007 Anti-Cybercrime law, alleging [...]
‘Hungry India’ Tag Lingers on
This is a chilling story of two sisters who were starving for six years due to want of money. Their family, neighbors, community locality, state and the nation all hang their heads in shame being a party to their slow dying process. What a irony of a nation, that brand itself as “shining” and whose [...]
500 Million Children at Risk of Malnutrition
As food prices continue to skyrocket, necessities such as milk, vegetables and meat never find their way into many families’ homes, placing 500 million children at risk of malnutrition. Thus children’s physical and mental growth will be stunted over the next 15 years, according to a survey by the international charity Save the Children. Eighty percent of [...]
Women and Children Suffer from Hunger
Women and children are hit the hardest by hunger worldwide. Why? In developing countries women face unique barriers to critical resources like income, land, education and the ability to borrow money. The global population has now hit a astonishing 7 billion-plus mouths to feed, and women and children account for more than 60% of those [...]
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