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= = ** Child Hunger in India **

On an Article that was published on March 12, 2009, the Malnutrition of children in India is discussed. The Economic Growth in India is growing very rapidly and is becoming a powerful nation. But it is Malnutrition problems of children are still a very big problem. This Article discusses the problems of India. They are not progressing but not regressing either. The Article focuses on WHAT he explanations are for, for malnutrition. There is only one simple explanation. The Government does not have this problem as a political priority but it is just a normal problem they are forced to help with. The Malnutrition in India is worst than most Sub Saharan countries. Just over the 18 years since 1990, India has been in the category of “Alarming” under the 2008 Global Hunger Index. Although there are many “extremely alarming”, India is suppose to not have much of these malnutrition problems. China is a very big country and they are starting to prosper. But what has India been doing? It has not solved the problem of children's malnutition at all. Instead, the government decided to focus on foreign affairs and their economic status. The problems that India faces are also the Caste System. In the countries that are improving a lot since 1990, one of their reasons is that they have no status of system. Countries such as Brazil treat everyone freely and have no discrimination. While in India, the government does not care very much about the “untouchables.” Everybody is very discriminatory against the untouchables. The untouchables are like the lepers and the people with bubonic plague in the old days. Because of old traditions, it is hard to make progress when a country is trying to keep their traditions. But even amongst these sad events, there are soup kitchens that open up for the poor. But the reason they decline is because the local people try to ask for food after the children get the food for themselves. The Poor can get violent when they are hungry although no reports of violence has been reported in India.

The purpose of my journal today is to see the improvements in India and resolutions debated on this issue. I am completely aware of other countries around us that needs food and care. Countries in Sub-Saharan deserts are the most serious. But None of the countries there, does not care about one group of people because they are a lowly part of a social status group. My main purpose of this journal is to try to resolve and get rid of the caste System. No matter if you are //Vaishas, Sudras,// or //Kyshaitras//, you should be treated equally and have the same amount of care. Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it clearly says so. I hope that the UN can come together, not only in the Human Rights Council but also in the Security council to come together as one, being logical, and reasonable to resolve these problems together as one. That is what I believe the UN is for. To help the world become a better place.
 * Second Journal Part:

The Article GLOBAL: UNICEF feels the pinch of the food price crisis discusses about UNICEF launching its biggest responses to treat** **severe malnutrition. UNICEF itself launched 50 million dollars to Ethiopia to help the malnutrition levels in Ethiopia. The Reason why they did this was because of the rising food prices, people in Ethiopia are going to suffer more.**
 * But Ethiopia is not the only country they helped in this article; they also helped Chad which was full of refugees from the surrounding countries. The Refugees comes from Darfur. Chad has been forgotten for a while, but Arsenault reminded the UN that Chad is in need also. The refugees have a lot of children that are malnourished because the government cannot help them very much.**
 * In the MDG report 2008, the report describes that the higher food prices will put about 100 million people into deeper poverty. The report talks about the cost of living in developing countries can change the scale and distribution of global poverty. The goal of the United Nations is to cut half the proportion of people who lives under less than 1$ by 2015 seems that it still might happen.**
 * The report talks about how the recent increase of food prices have affected the poor. The people who lived in moderate poverty now live in extreme poverty because they cannot provide the normal food supplies they gave to their children. If the UN does not take further action, then the MDG’s first goal will be far away from reach.**
 * “Malnutrition is more common in India than in Sub-Saharan Africa. One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in India.” -UNICEF**


 * UN Action**
 * UNICEF and other NGOs such as UNDP are the main reasons that the children all over the world are still getting help. UNICEF itself funds millions of dollars every year to help children who do not have education, food, or shelter. The United Nations helps these children, by funding, sending security, sending transportation to help these children with a variety of problems.**
 * On the 4th of December 2008, the UNDP Chief called upon all nations to commit into taking action on helping resolve the problem of poverty. As mentioned previously article above, UNICEF itself funded 50$ million dollars to the children of Ethiopia. But are we forgetting something? Is the UN forgetting that 1 in 3 of the world's malnourished children lives in India? This means that One-Third of the world’s most starved Children are living inIndia, and further funding is not made as much in India than it is on Ethiopia. Ethiopia is probably the poorest country and it needs the UN’s full Attention. But the UN has not done as much to India’s problem then to the Sub-Saharan countries.**
 * When Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, George Bush went and spoke in the GA of the United Nations. He spoke of thanks to all the 118 nations that offered their help by sending rescuers, funding and helping with shelter. But when a Cyclone hit Myanmar, did 118 countries help Myanmar?**
 * The purpose of the journal is I want to show that the UN has made a difference to our world. But I also want to show that the UN needs to focus on other countries too. When UNICEF was busy funding other countries in Africa, or in Myanmar, Bhutan, they forgot Chad, the country that needed aid because of it refugees. But India was forgotten. The journal today is to show how much India needs the aid of the United Nations. I hope when people read this journal, they will realize, that it is not ONLY Africa that is suffering of great malnutrition for children, but also South East Asia. According to the MDG Report 2008, South East Asiahas the most Malnourished children in the planet. Let us not only focus on only one thing and forget the things that surround us.**

Progress: The problem of poverty and hunger has slowly been improving over the years. Signs of the UN Helping the world is shown on the ** 2008 ** **Global Hunger Index**. Over the years from 1990-2008, the hunger overall score has increased by less than one fifth. l  1990-->18.7 l  2008-->15.2 But the most progress done is reducing the proportion of underweight children. According to the Hunger Index, it has decreased by 5.9 points since 1990. Progress HAS been made although some countries have been decreasing. The UN has worked hard for this goal and they have a good result in helping the children that are underweight. Now they face a new problem, the country of India is a new problem that UNICEF has only recently noticed.

Citations:

"UNDP chief hails nations for commitment to action on poverty, climate change." __Welcome to the UN. It's your world.__ 11 Apr. 2009 .

"UNICEF India - Children's issues - Nutrition." __UNICEF - UNICEF Home__. 11 Apr. 2009 .

MDG. __MDG Report 2008__. Rep.