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Is it possible that we are not on track to realize the Millennium Development Goals by 2015? An incredible story written by Mirela Xanthaki for IPS News captures some of the outcomes from last week's Poverty Hearings in New York, where GCAP shared some of the latest poverty figures and stories about the people behind the numbers.

On August 29th, some of the human rights world’s leading voices, working toward solutions to the global food crisis, gathered at the United Nations to discuss: 'The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis: Root Causes and Responses'. The need for a human rights-based approach to solving the food crisis has never been more pressing.

People around the world continue to bear the burden of rising food costs; while the global food crisis' root causes remain unaddressed. This Friday at 19:00 GMT, Every Human Has Rights partners ActionAid and Realizing Rights, join Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, and others to discuss a human rights approach to ending the food crisis. You can listen in via live web-cast.

Elders join HungerFREE to demand urgent action on global food crisis Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and other Elders joined forces with ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign last night to continue the fight against the global food crisis...

As the Every Human Has Rights campaign spends July focused on 'The Right to Freedom from Hunger', we have the privilege of reporting on a collaboration between two of our campaign partners that resulted in one of the most beautiful calls to action on the global food crisis we've seen to date.