Tag: malnutrition

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  STF ruling compels Bolsonaro gov't to account for malnourished Yanomami children

  

  Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso Wednesday gave President Jair Bolsonaro's administration five days to rectify the situation of malnourished Yanomami deprived of medical care, portrayed in a TV show over this past weekend.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Latin America suffering triple burden of malnutrition: obesity, unbalanced diets and declining activity

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean is facing an obesity epidemic while paradoxically the number of people facing food insecurity in the region continues to rise, the OECD and FAO warned in a report on Monday. 

• Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 16:55 UTC

  Transparency International denounces “Venezuelan apartheid”

  

  NGO Transparency Venezuela denounced through a follow-up that the Carnet de la Patria (homeland card), identity document devised by the government of Nicolás Maduro, is a tool of social control that seeks, among other purposes, the loyalty to the ruling party at the polls.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Unicef and Caritas confirm growing and extended malnutrition in Venezuela

  

  The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said it was seeing clear signs of a growing malnutrition crisis in Venezuela, but it lacked data to give precise information and to tackle the problem effectively.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 18:22 UTC

  UNICEF says 2.3 million under-16s in Spain at risk of malnutrition

  

  The continuing fall in household income in Spain is causing many families to cut down on basic necessities such as food and it is estimated that a quarter of under-16, or 2.3 million are at risk of malnutrition, according to a recent statement by Gabriel González-Bueno, responsible for Child Policies at UNICEF in Spain.

• Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:06 UTC

  Two more babies die of malnutrition in north Argentina: seven in 40 days

  

  Another two babies died of malnutrition in the Argentine northern province of Salta, totalling seven so far this year. They all belong to indigenous colonies in this case from the Wichi community living under subsistence conditions in non fertile areas of the province.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 08:16 UTC

  Argentine aborigine children die of malnutrition and poor sanitary conditions

  

  An Argentine incumbent governor from the northern province of Salta admitted in a television interview that at least five children died of malnutrition last year and so far this year another case has been registered. Cases involve mostly the indigenous population.