Warning of more than 200 non-governmental organizations regarding the worsening of the hunger crisis in the world

According to Fars News Agency, more than 200 non-governmental organizations warned in an open letter to world leaders that according to estimates, one person in the world dies of hunger every four seconds and called for decisive international action to “end the current hunger crisis.” escalated in the world.

According to the Al Jazeera news site, 238 NGOs belonging to 75 countries, including Oxfam, Save the Children and International Plan, sent an open letter to the leaders of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. They expressed their displeasure at the increasing hunger in the world.

“A staggering 345 million people are now experiencing extreme hunger, a number that has more than doubled since 2019,” they wrote in the letter.

“Despite the promise of world leaders not to allow famine to occur again in the 21st century, famine has once again become an imminent phenomenon in Somalia,” they stressed. Around the world, 50 million people in 45 countries are on the brink of famine.

These non-governmental organizations emphasized that according to estimates, 177,000 people in the world die of hunger every day, which means that one person in the world dies of hunger every four seconds.

Mohna Ahmad Ali Al-Jabali from the Yemeni Family Care Association and one of the signatories of this letter said: “It is terrible that despite all the technologies in the field of agriculture and harvesting techniques, today we still talk about famine in the 20th century. We talk first. It is not a problem of one country or one continent, and hunger never has only one cause. “The problem is related to injustice in the whole of humanity.”

He continued: “We must not focus on both immediate life-saving food and longer-term support in order to enable people to look after their future. People can take responsibility for their future and provide for themselves and their families, so we can wait even a moment longer.”

According to these organizations, the global hunger crisis is caused by a “deadly combination of poverty, social injustice, gender inequality, conflict, climate change, and economic shocks” as well as the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

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