HungerFREE is a global campaign run by ActionAid.
It’s been over ten years since governments committed to cutting world hunger in half by 2015. Yet today, hunger is increasing in most parts of the world. We aim to force governments to deliver on their commitment to halve world hunger by 2015, and their obligation to end deaths by starvation.
The ActionAid HungerFREE campaign seeks to push the issue of hunger to the top of the political agenda of all governments. The Right to Food has been sidelined for too long!
HungerFREE will drive change by pushing governments to:
- Introduce and implement laws that bring an immediate end to all deaths by starvation and ensure basic social protection.
- Enact and enforce laws that guarantee all women the right to own land.
- Ensure that corporations are held accountable for abuses and violations of the right to food, water, land and seeds.
Your voice is needed now to tell world leaders to stand up and be counted for a HungerFREE world. (click here to take action)
2 Comments
September 22, 2007 at 12:43 am
I very much support the goal of ending world hunger. We hear a lot more about ending poverty, but of course hunger is a more basic (and urgent) problem.
I was, however, confused when I read your “About” page and your goal of enacting laws to guarantee all women the right to own land.
Is this about some countries/areas where women do not have this right? Or is it a hyper-feminist view that every woman should be guaranteed a piece of land?
I am not trying to sound hateful, please reply.
September 22, 2007 at 12:47 pm
That’s actually an excellent question.
This is about places where women have no right to their own land, no inheritance rights, or are evicted from their land unjustly.
This fact is amazing to me: Women produce 80% of the food in most countries, yet own less than 10% of the land.
In some places, women work the family fields from day to night, often tilling the soil by hand. Even so, if the husband dies, his family can throw the widow and her children off the land– leaving them destitute. This happened to a friend of mine in Uganda. She fought back– and won! It was the first win like that for women in Uganda, and really has helped to open doors for others.
In other places, land is snatched from women by corporations or the very rich, leaving them without a way of making a living. Situations like these are prime examples of why people are going hungry in the world today. It’s what we are fighting so hard to change.