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The Hunger Project and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are hosting a high-level dialogue on achieving the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa by 2030 in Johannesburg, South Africa tomorrow, May 12.

UN Women recently released their report on the progress of women, which calls for the transformation of economies to make women’s rights and gender equality a reality. The report, “Progress of the World’s Women: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights," calls for...

From April 27 – May 1, The Hunger Project staff and more than 420 Live Below the Line champions spent a $1.50 a day on food and beverage to change the way people think about extreme poverty and hunger. Staff explain why the took on the challenge.

Hunger Project Board Member and Global Head of Shared Services at Citi Bank, Sheree Stomberg, takes on The Live Below the Line Challenge in support of The Hunger Project. "Will I be able to eat enough to mentally perform at my work, a work that relies on my...

For the Live Below the Line campaign--the challenge where participants spend only $1.50 a day on food and drink for five days to raise funds and awareness for global poverty--The Hunger Project produced a cookbook, which includes recipes from well-known and talented...

The Hunger Project released the Live Below the Line 2015 Cookbook, which features healthy, complete meals for under $1.50 that have been created by Ikea; FIKA Coffee; Abigail Kirsch Catering; award-winning food blogs and more.

April 22 is Earth Day! Celebrate with us and learn what we do to protect and preserve our planet.

What comes to mind when you think of world hunger? For some, the images evoked when asked this question are images that are associated with famine—images of severely malnourished children with bloated stomachs. Famines are indeed critical emergencies and it is...

The Hunger Project co-hosted a multi-stakeholder discussion at the United Nation’s Inter-Governmental Negotiations to discuss specific nutrition indicators and their inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently partnered with the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation to create the No Ceilings:The Full Participation Project, which conducts research and summarizes trends on the status of women over the last 20 years, as...

It has been twenty years since the establishment of the Beijing Declaration--the resolution which sought to create a world where men and women would be created equal.  And while great strides have been made in advancing gender equality laid out in the Declaration, one...

Symon Brewis-Weston, CEO of Sovereign, received the UN Award for Leadership–one of only five CEOs around the world to be recognized for his progressive approach to workplace diversity and community engagement.