[RED DEMOCRATICA] G8 can tackle hunger at its roots, UN food envoy says

 

Quote of the Day | Excerpts from UN Dispatch | UN's Piper: Shortfall in aid for Africa's Sahel Created for eleccion@yahoogroups.com |  Web Version   June 12, 2013 FOLLOW THE UN FOUNDATION     News covering the UN and the world SIGN UP | FORWARD | ADVERTISE | DONATE Top Story G8 can tackle hunger at its roots, UN food envoy says The Group of Eight can address hunger at one of its root causes by preventing tax injustice, writes Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food. "[T]he G8 must treat tax injustice as the driver of hunger and poverty that it is, urgently initiating a new era of tax transparency," he argues. 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