San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, south-eastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma will be the first targets of President Barack Obama's plan to combat high poverty in American communities, the White House said on Wednesday.  To source

The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) has demanded that the Centre should ensure the passage of a comprehensive Food Security Act by making it a fundamental right. To source

A massive drought, as if out of nowhere, has settled over the Horn of Africa and the people fleeing to the camps are said to be “climate”, “drought” or “environmental” refugees. The land, we are told by the international agencies rushing relief to the region, can no longer support its people. To source

"India is home to 42 percent of the world's underweight children and 31 percent of its stunted children", according to "2010 Global Hunger Index" report. To source