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16-10-2007, 08:17 PM
ROME, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI marked World Food Day with a Vatican statement Tuesday calling food a universal right and blaming human activity for hunger.
The pope said all countries should honor the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which included food as one of those rights, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
"A sense of solidarity, in which food is considered a universal right without distinction or discrimination, must develop in all the countries of the world," Benedict said.
The pope's statement was read at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome.
War and "a general economic and social deterioration" are the major causes of food shortages, he said.
Jacques Diout, the director general of the FAO, estimated 854 million people in the world are now short of food.
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The pope said all countries should honor the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which included food as one of those rights, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
"A sense of solidarity, in which food is considered a universal right without distinction or discrimination, must develop in all the countries of the world," Benedict said.
The pope's statement was read at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome.
War and "a general economic and social deterioration" are the major causes of food shortages, he said.
Jacques Diout, the director general of the FAO, estimated 854 million people in the world are now short of food.
Special thanks to: http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/108464