It seems like yesterday that the then-Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, raged against the latest increase of the world’s people who go hungry jumping to 820 million. With the crisis deepening daily, the FAO’s announcement of one billion people in the world going hungry is sidelined as a statistical fact in an environment that fails to acknowledge the hardest hit on its door step: compare Barbara Ehrenreich’s coverage of those “too poor to make the news.”

“The fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger,” Article 11 of the Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights has been endorsed by no less than 160 countries world wide.

The preference for male babies – female infanticide – has now officially reached the United States of America. As the New York Times reports that the census data reveals a preference for males in minority groups such as Chinese, Koreans and Indians.