Rights, revolution.

doctorswithoutborders:

Known as the “hunger gap,” rural malnutrition recurs seasonally in Burkina Faso when crops are scarce and the 80 percent of Burkinabe who depend on subsistence farming lose their primary source of nourishment. In the Starved for Attention Film “A Mother’s Devotion,” photojournalist Jessica Dimmock tenderly captures the heartbreaking emotional strains experienced by a young, hard working mother, Natasha, simply trying to feed her children. Alone at 24, she scavenges firewood to sell in the market. Her meager earnings force an impossible choice: between buying food or medicine for her three children.

This is one of 195 million stories of malnutrition. Sign the petition and donate your profile to help us rewrite the story.

Photo: Burkina Faso 2009 © Jessica Dimmock/VII

doctorswithoutborders:

Sign the petition and donate your profile to help us rewrite the story of malnutrition.

It is estimated by official government bodies that around 925 million individuals across the world are malnourished and starving. It is as a result of this global starvation, everyday it is estimated that around 16,000 children die from cases of acute undernourishment or starvation. A further statistic shows that across the globe around 178 million children under 5 years of age are stunted in growth, 90% of these children are found in only 35 seperate countries largely across Central/Southern Asia and sub-Saharan nations where between 1981 and 2005 around 51% of the population lived on less than $1.25 per day. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states however in Article 25 that ‘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…’, however the figures presented by international organisations show that little has been done by governments to protect such fundamental rights, with non-Governmental organisations such as the MSF taking a prominent role in the effort to alleviate suffering in the affected nations globally. However questions must be raised as to why NGO’s still must take the forefront position on an issue that has ultimately been created by global poverty among a number of other large contributing factors. Please take the time to follow the links in the post above, I donated my twitter account for 24 hours while having full access at all times. 

poculum:

Death Poem

By Jumah al Dossari

Take my blood.
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.

Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.

And let them bear the guilty burden before the world,
Of this innocent soul.
Let them bear the burden before their children and before history,
Of this wasted, sinless soul,
Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the “protectors of peace.”

This poem and art work are just two examples of the creativity of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.

You can see more art here, and read more poems here

To this very moment Genocide continues in Darfur, Sudan. Sudanese natives are systematically being displaced and murdered by the government backed Janjaweed militia, a heavily armed partisan group recruited from Arab tribes in the region. It is estimated that the Genocide has claimed over 300,000 lives and displaced over 2 million people and this toll continues to rise as the genocide continues to wage in Darfur, leaving behind a path of violent deaths, organised starvation and disease. Despite ongoing United Nations convoys and committees, little has been done to ultimately prevent the Genocide from continuing. The genocide in Darfur must be held in public view in order for further action to take place. Stand up and make your voice heard for every life that has been lost and the lives that will continue to be lost if no genocide intervention is taken and pressure delivered.

(Source: milesjoel)