The World Bank is in the news of late. Its president, Paul Wolfowitz (pictured), has been pilloried for making confetti out of the Bank’s ethical rulebook, and showering his sweetheart with it. While this is generally unremarkable behaviour in Washington, he has attracted more attention than his peers because of his institution’s crusade against corruption, and his saying things like “to make poverty history, we need to make corruption history”.
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It’s right there in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Article 25 says
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
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Things have been a little quiet here at Stuffed and Starved. Part of the reason is food-related: some friends of mine in South Africa were on hunger-strike. After twelve days, the government, which had arrested them illegally, released them. You can read more about the story in a short summary I wrote here. Meanwhile, normal service will now resume at Stuffed and Starved.
Here’s a fine analysis, and call for caution, from George Monbiot. His website is here and this article is from Z Magazine.
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Here’s an article from the New York Times, about who really benefits from Food Aid…
Original Article Here. Thanks to Dan Moshenberg for sending it along.
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Photo Credit : Joann Cornejo
Today is Cesar Chavez Day. It’s a good day to remember that the poorest and most exploited people in farming aren’t farmers – they are the farm workers.
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Christine Dann sends a fine nugget of news from New Zealand, and an uplifting one to boot. Given that the last story was about how corporations profit from inducing neuroses in schoolgirls, it’s wonderful to see that the opposite also, albeit rarely, applies.
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The Bangkok Post carries two fine articles on Nyéléni : the 2007 World Summit on Food Sovereignty by Supara Janchitfah. Here’s Planting Seeds for Mother Earth and below you’ll find Unconventional Gathering. Keep Reading »
