Most were driven from their homes into inhospitable land where they died from hunger and disease.
Oxfam and other international charities say that 750, 000 Somalis are at immediate risk of dying from hunger.
"With one child dying every five seconds from hunger-related causes, the time to act is now, " Brown stressed.
Millions suffer from hunger and poverty and disease in this world of ours.
The family had no access to food, and Nasir ached from hunger.
Every day nearly 16, 000 children die from hunger and related causes.
That, in turn, would explain why women in rich countries, who are less likely to suffer from hunger and disease, are more likely to give birth to sons.
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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) recognizes the rights to "be free from hunger", to enjoy "the highest attainable standard" of health, and to education.
Meanwhile, back in Darfur, aid workers predict that between 150, 000 and 350, 000 people will die in the next nine months from hunger and disease if Sudan's government does not stop hindering relief efforts.
The studio got a big boost this year from its home entertainment category that benefitted from strong Hunger Games sales.
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And with the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host, The Moral Instruments: City of Bones (August 23rd) unfairly bears the burden of proving that female-friendly young-adult literary adaptations can in fact succeed aside from The Hunger Games and Twilight.
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The appetite for Joyce's most challenging work comes from a real hunger for demanding literature.
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Much of what happens now occurs not from a great hunger to succeed as a desire to maintain.
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You can be the generation that brings opportunity and prosperity to forgotten corners of the world and banishes hunger from this continent forever.
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Topping the list is the line from the "Hunger Games" trilogy.
At the first ghostly light, which seemed to radiate not from the sky but from the snow, we got up, our limbs numb and our eyes glazed from sleeplessness, hunger, and darkness, and found our shoes so frozen that, when struck, they rang like bells.
Whereas Brazil, Chile and Peru benefit from China's hunger for commodities, Colombia's exporters face difficulties.
According to the World Bank, some 200 million more people are suffering from extreme poverty, hunger or thirst as a result of the crisis.
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They argue that it is easier to adhere to (proteins do indeed make people feel fuller for longer), and that they suffer from fewer of the hunger pangs and mood swings that are characteristic of low-fat diets.
Children's Food Trust chief executive-designate Linda Cregan said too many people who worked with children were having to go above and beyond the call of duty to try to protect children from the effects of hunger and poor diet.
It calculated that five million deaths occur each year from air pollution, hunger and disease as a result of climate change and carbon-intensive economies, and that toll would likely rise to six million a year by 2030 if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue.
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Though the novel has a variety of characters, most of the story centers on Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, Hunger Games representatives from District 12 (presumably West Virginia), and their efforts to emerge from the games alive.
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Grandiose claims to be providing the key to feeding the world have been challenged by development agencies from the start, as hunger is mostly caused by failures of distribution, not the total level of world food production.
There were a couple cases in the Irish hunger strikes where they were force-fed, but that only happened after court orders from relatives of some of the people on hunger strike.
Bringing food from abroad into areas struggling with hunger often does more harm than good.
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The military said that as of Wednesday, there were 31 men on hunger strike, up from 28 on Monday.
The other quarter of Cisco's business, which sells routers, switches and other network equipment to ISPs, will continue to benefit from consumers' ever-growing hunger for bandwidth.
Report also indicates that world hunger has actually increased from forty years ago, in part because of rising food prices associated with the costs of oil.
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