Tag: famine
“To see children of the Yanomami people in a situation of famine is the demonstration that this is a premeditated genocide”
“Each day to hell we descend one step, without horror, through stinking darkness” (Charles Baudelaire, The evil flowers). This quote from Baudelaire is very significant of the horror experienced by…
Ukraine accuses Russia of acting like in the 1932 famine
by Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine on Saturday accused Russia of resorting to the same “genocidal” tactics as those of Joseph Stalin as the country commemorates the famine that…
Germany will call the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s a “genocide”
Germany will adopt a resolution recognizing as “genocide» the famine in Ukraine caused 90 years ago by the Stalinist regime, according to a draft resolution of the coalition and the…
Germany will recognize the Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, as a “genocide”
Germany will adopt a resolution recognizing as a “genocide” the famine in Ukraine caused ninety years ago by the Stalinist regime, according to a draft resolution of the coalition and…
Holodomor as genocide: Bundestag wants to condemn Stalin’s famine in Ukraine
Holodomor as Genocide Bundestag wants to condemn Stalin’s famine in Ukraine 11/25/2022, 10:17 am Millions of Ukrainians die in a Kremlin-sponsored famine in the 1930s. “From today’s perspective, a historical-political…
lie and miracle in the aftermath of the Great Irish Famine
Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), Will Byrne (Tom Burke) and Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) in “The Wonder”, by Sebastian Lelio. AIDAN MONAGHAN/NETFLIX We are always afraid to see the actors…
Famine in East Africa – Children are dying
In large parts of East Africa, millions of children are at risk of starvation. Cries for help from local authorities, UN organizations and NGOs have so far gone largely unheeded.…
“Without further help, there will be famine”
Somalia faces anxious weeks. To prevent famine, his country needs more support, says the government’s special envoy. He sees a particular responsibility in those countries that have caused climate change…
Famine threatened in Somalia – Over 700 Somali children starved to death since the beginning of the year – News
contents The situation in the arid regions of the Horn of Africa is coming to a head. The children’s charity Unicef warns of a new catastrophe. For two years, people…
Nuclear war could trigger global famine
International trade would come to a standstill Xia’s team evaluated data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The researchers used this to calculate how falling crop…
Famine turned people into milk drinkers
It’s a popular example in biology class of how culture influences evolution: the development of human lactose tolerance. It is said to be most common in areas with a long…
Archaeology: Lactose intolerance disappeared due to famine
Scientists have reconstructed how the ability to digest lactose evolved. They rely on residues in clay pots and gene banks. Today’s dairy farming in Switzerland would not exist without the…