“That silence is also a call for action,” she said. She told the council that in too many nutrition wards and camps for the displaced she has visited, the eerie silence of small children fighting for their lives who are too weak to cry because of malnutrition “never leaves you.” Ghelani said international collaboration is essential.
High Level Task Force on Preventing Famine established in 2021 and headed by Reena Ghelani. He called for a single body to galvanize collective action - the U.N. Miliband told the council there is also a proliferation of different global initiatives on famine and food insecurity. He said the solution is simply to put a tape around a child’s arm and measure the circumference to diagnose malnutrition and provide one or two doses of therapeutic food per day depending on whether the case is severe or moderate. Ex-Trump advisor Peter Navarro convicted on contempt of Congress chargesĪs an example, he said, 80% of acutely malnourished children aren’t getting any treatment because of divided approaches toward moderate and severe malnutrition.People vying for ‘Laziest Citizen’ honours have been lying down for 20 days.man trapped 1,000 metres underground in Turkey cave Florida man arrested for trying to cross Atlantic in giant hamster wheel.The Security Council statement stressed the need “to break the vicious cycle between armed conflict and food insecurity.” member states seeking commitments “to take action to end the use of food as a weapon of war and the starvation of civilians as a tactic of warfare.” Blinken said 91 countries have signed, less than half the membership. The United States circulated a communique to the 193 U.N. In 2022, “armed conflict was the most significant driver of high levels of acute food insecurity for roughly 117 million people in 19 countries and territories,” the council said, adding that an estimated 148.1 million children under the age of five suffer from stunted growth because of malnutrition. All of us can dig deeper.”Īt the start of the meeting, the Security Council adopted a presidential statement, approved by all 15 members, strongly condemning “the use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” and expressing concern at the growing number of armed conflicts all over the globe.
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