Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 11:52am

From the District of Columbia, Bill Shickler presents Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty, a show covering hunger and poverty and its effects around the world.

Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty - Land Poor

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 04/28/2015 - 2:56pm
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The United Nations examines how people are forced off their land, or don't even have ANY LAND AT ALL, to even do subsistance farming. Having a decade devoted to Land Reform, has not done a lot to help poor people, especially in India, Bangladesh, Central & South America. This translates to over 1 BILLION people who are landless, and therfore forced to survive in cheap labor economies.

Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty - Public Housing

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:58pm
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Eleanor Roosevelt created the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, at the inception of the United Nations, in 1945. In that declaration, SIGNED ONTO BY THE UNITED STATES, was the inherent human right to shelter--that is--HOUSING!.This program shows how we have TURNED OUR BACKS ON OUR WORD, TO PROVIDE SAFE,AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO ALL WHO NEED AND DESERVE IT!!

Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty - Refugee Women

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 11:06am
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The extreme danger that women refugees face, is chronicled in this program. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is by far the largest and most effective international agency that strives to rescue refugees from conflict zones. The importance of this organization, which won the Nobel Peace Prize---TWICE!!-- is obvious as you will see in their documenting the struggles that refugee women suffer in order to survive.

Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty - World Food Day

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 12:04pm
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For over a Quarter of a Century, World Food Day (October 16th) has provided a forum on television, for in-depth analysis of the crisis of extreme poverty and hunger throughout the world, even in the US. This particular panel, has representatives from the Agency for International Development's Food For Peace program, the main vehicle the United States uses to distribute food to needy countries. Also represented, is a member of The World Food Council, which has existed for many decades , and has hands-on-the-ground experience in food insecure countries.

Media Watch on Hunger and Poverty - USDA FAO

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 11:58am
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The US Dept. of Agriculture, in partnership with the FAO (the United Nations Food & and Agriculture Organization), accomplish many programs that enable sustainable agriculture, both here and in other countries. In spite of criticism of USDA as a racist outfit, it still manages somehow, to render much needed credit, even to minorities( although it usually takes a lawsuit!!)