NEW YORK: More than 200 NGOs have called for decisive global action to end the growing global hunger crisis, citing the alarming estimate that one person dies of hunger every 4 seconds. Is.
According to foreign media reports, 238 organizations from 75 countries, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Plan International, addressed world leaders in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Expressed outrage on a touchy level.
The NGOs said in a statement that 345 million people are now facing acute hunger, a number that has more than doubled since 2019. The open letter says that never again in the 21st century. Despite the ambitions of world leaders to prevent famine, fears of famine are once again looming in Somalia, with 50 million people on the brink of starvation in 45 countries around the world.
Pointing to the alarming estimate that nearly 19,700 people are dying of hunger every day, the NGOs said that this means that one person is dying of hunger every 4 seconds.
Among the signatories of the letter, Muhna Ahmad Ali Al-Jabali from the Yemen Family Care Association said in a statement that it is a very sad situation that despite all the technologies introduced in agriculture and food production, we are still in the 21st century, Talking about famine.
