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.
Pregnant women, babies and children suffer from hunger and malnutrition far too often in the richest country in the world.
No one knows how many of those deaths were from violence or from hunger and disease, in themselves results of that violence.
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 Times of India , one of the most widely circulated dailes, says from hunger to illiteracy, disease to deprivation, superstition to strife, the history of India's freedom has been one of unrealised promise.
In between torture sessions, Mr. Gao's jailers showed him video of his young son crying from hunger and told him that only if he sang revolutionary paeans to the Communist Party would they allow his wife access to her bank account to buy food.
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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This is from Dave: Poverty and hunger that results from poverty today drives my life goals.
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.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
It is against the notion that each government must respect others' sovereign rights over their natural resources, and against the idea of committing to free the world from poverty and hunger - only "extreme" poverty and hunger should be included, it says.
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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Thus many more people seem destined to die from illness, injury, hunger or hypothermia, as Kashmir's bitter winter sets in.
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