Asma Khan has long been a dedicated supporter of WFP and its causes. Asma advocated for WFP’s Women are Hungrier campaign, to draw attention to the central role women’s empowerment plays in ending hunger and transforming communities.
“Practical approaches are crucial to address food security in the region,” says Menghestab Haile, WFP’s Regional Director in Southern Africa. “WFP is excited to bring together various experts to share their insights and help bring effective solutions in the fight against hunger.
Over the years, Pakistan has become a food surplus country and a major producer of wheat which it distributes to needy populations through various mechanisms, including the World Food Programme (WFP).
However, we must not prevent an entire organization from delivering on its mandate to serve people in desperate need.
The harrowing events that have been snowballing in Gaza since 7 October have left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and on the brink of famine.
Names in this story have been changed to protect the identities of individuals.
One day, Anyuarach went to the pharmacy to buy for her father medicine. There, two men raped her.
“I did not plan to tell anyone. But then I missed my periods and I had to explain to my father what happened,” she says.
This was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
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Humanitarian operations in Gaza are near collapse. Once again, nearly half of the population of Rafah, 800,000 people, are on the move, looking for food and shelter in the middle areas of the Strip and in Khan Younis.
The health system continues to be systematically degraded, with catastrophic consequences. As of 19 February, only 12 out of 36 hospitals with inpatient capacity are still functioning, and only partially. There have been more than 370 attacks on health care in Gaza since 7 October.
Diseases are rampant. Famine is looming. Water is at a trickle.
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This contribution comes as part of the “Food for Gaza” multistakeholder initiative led by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with key humanitarian actors – FAO, WFP and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - and the Italian Civil Protection, which aims to strengthen collaboration and facilitate access to food assistance in order to alleviate the suffe
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 5 November 2023 – For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart.
In Israel, some 1,400 people have been killed and thousands have been injured, according to the Israeli authorities.