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- The money spent on debt repayments could provide water for around 1.3 billion people.12:00 AM Oct 20th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.11:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- An estimated 824 million people in the developing world were affected by chronic hunger in 2003.11:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation and the large majority are children under the age of 5.10:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- An average of only 43 per cent of girls of the appropriate age in the developing world attend secondary.10:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- 300 million children go to bed hungry every day; more than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency.9:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Every hour more than 1,200 children die away from the glare of media attention. The overwhelming majority can be traced to a single pat ...9:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Every hour more than 1,200 children die away from the glare of media attention. The overwhelming majority can be traced to a single pat ...8:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria -more than one million child deaths a year.8:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- An average of only 43 per cent of girls of the appropriate age in the developing world attend secondary.7:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- On average, a child whose mother has no education is twice as likely to be out of school as one whose mother has some education.7:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- 7 Million children die each year as a result of the debt crisis.6:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- More than 85% of the debt owed by the world's poorest countries has yet to be cancelled.5:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- From 1990-2002, extreme poverty fell in much of Asia, where the number of people living on less than $1 a day dropped by nearly 250,000,000.5:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- From 1990 to 2002, in sub-Saharan Africa, the number of people living in extreme poverty increased by 140 million.4:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- 300 million children go to bed hungry every day; more than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency.4:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Above 80 percent of farmers in Africa are women. More than 40 percent of women in Africa do not have access to basic education.3:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- From 1990-2002, extreme poverty fell in much of Asia, where the number of people living on less than $1 a day dropped by nearly 250,000,000.3:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world's population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day.2:30 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
- Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.2:00 PM Oct 19th, 2007 from Twitter4R
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- Name Stand Up Speak Out!
- Location Austin, Texas
- Web http://standagain...
- Bio Stand Up and Speak Out is the growing movement of people no longer prepared to stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and inequality.
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