"Leo cited UN data that revealed about 673 million people were not eating enough each day, calling that number the clear sign of a prevailing insensitivity, of a soulless economy and of an unjust and unsustainable system of resource distribution. He added: In a time when science has lengthened life expectancy, allowing millions of human beings to live and die struck by hunger is a collective failure, an ethical derailment, a historic offence."
"The pope, speaking mainly in Spanish, said today's conflicts have seen the re-emergence of the use of food as a weapon of war. International humanitarian law, without exception, prohibits attacks on civilians and on goods essential to the survival of populations. This seems forgotten, for, painfully, we witness the continued use of that cruel strategy,. We cannot continue like this, since hunger is not humanity's destiny but its downfall."
"Pope Leo has made an urgent appeal to global leaders to end world hunger, saying in a speech to a UN agency that allowing millions to go without food each day represented an ethical derailment. In a visit to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, the pontiff also condemned the use of hunger as a weapon of war, without naming specific conflicts or countries. The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza"
An urgent appeal to global leaders called for ending world hunger and described allowing millions to go without food each day as an ethical derailment. UN data indicates about 673 million people are not eating enough each day, described as a sign of prevailing insensitivity, a soulless economy, and an unjust and unsustainable distribution of resources. The use of hunger as a weapon of war was condemned and international humanitarian law was cited as prohibiting attacks on civilians and goods essential to survival. The appeal occurred at FAO headquarters in Rome during the agency's 80th anniversary forum attended by 125 delegations, with remarks delivered mainly in Spanish. Hunger was described as humanity's downfall, not its destiny.
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