World Hunger and International Justice

Web Resources

Groups that fight hunger

• Bread for the World (activist, religiously based, hunger organization).
   

• Donate food by clicking on the Hunger Site
  
  

• OXFAM International (perhaps the most highly respected non-governmental aid organization)
  

 

Hunger and Poverty

• Banik, Dan (University of Oslo).  Extensive Bibliography.
  
  

• Fletcher, Joseph. "Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid: A Bow to Garrett Hardin."  From Population and Environment 12 (Spring 1991).
  
  

• Pogge, Thomas W. (1997). "A Global Resources Dividend." In D. Crocker and T. Linden (eds) Ethics of Consumption. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 501-38.  [This is the full version of the paper which is abridged for this volume.]  Reprinted by permission of Professors Pogge and Crocker. [pdf]
  
  

• Population and Agriculture.  Radio interview with Paul Waggoner on the possible effects on the environment of increasing populations. [RealAudio]
  
  

• Rachels, James. "Vegetarianism and 'the Other Weight Problem".  From World Hunger and Moral Obligation (1977).  This essay relates explores the connection between the use of animals for food and world hunger.  Used here by permission of Professor Rachels.
   

• Amartya Sen. "Population: Delusion and Reality."  Nobel Prize winning economist's remarks before the United Nations about the "population problem."
  
  

• Singer, Peter.  "The Singer Solution to World Poverty,"  New York Times, September 5, 1999. (You will need to register at this site.  Registration is free, and well worth it. 

• Center for Global Development.
   
• "Ethiopia and Eritrea: Promoting Stability, Democracy and Human Rights."  Michael Clough, Africa Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch
   

• Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
   

• Hunger Links.  From the   Friedman school and Nutrition and public Policy:, Tufts University.  Great single page with numerous links to empirical information, policy reports, and arguments about the nature, scopes, and solutions to world hunger.
  
  

• Hunger Notes (World Hunger Education Service).
  
  

• Information on Child Labor in Third World Countries.
  
  

• International Food Policy Research Institute.  A research institute, funded by more than 25 international agencies.  Devoted to understanding, and making recommendations concerning, policies to meeting the long-term needs for food and development.
  
  

• Malthus, Thomas.  Essay on the Principle of Population (1794).  His classic statement about the tendency toward exponential population growth - growth curtailed only by war, disease, and early death.
  
  

• Ravallion, Martin, and Shaohua Chen.  ‘What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent  Changes in Distribution and Poverty." The World Bank Economic Review, (1997).
  
  

• Sustainable Development. Links to various resources from the University of Brussels.
  
  

• Starvation Net. General, more popular site, with general information on hunger.
   

• United National Human Development Report (2005): International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
   

• United Nations Development Report (2004). Human Development Report 2004:  Cultural Literacy in Today's Diverse World [pdf].  New York.  Oxford University Press.  The entire report is online.
  
  

• United Nations Development Report (2003). Human Development Report 2003:  Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty [pdf].  New York.  Oxford University Press.  The entire report is online.
  
  

• United Nations Development Program (2002).   Human Development Report 2002: Deepening democracy in a fragmented world [pdf].  New York.  Oxford University Press.  The entire report is online.
   

• United Nations Development Program (2001).  Human Development Report 2001: Making new technologies work for human development [pdf]. New York: Oxford University Press.  The entire report is online.
   

• United Nations Development Program (2000). Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development [pdf]. New York: Oxford University Press.  The entire report is online.
  
  
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA 1999), U.S. Action Plan on Food Security.
   
• World Bank.  World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate For Everyone
   
• World Bank.  World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work For Poor People.  Coming in September, 2003.
   
• World Bank.  World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World.  New York: Oxford University Press.  The entire Report is online.
  
  
• World Bank. World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets.  New York: Oxford University Press.  The entire report is now online.
  
  
• World Bank.  World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.  The entire report is online.
  
  
• World Bank. World Development Report 1999/2000: Entering the 21st Century.  New York: Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
  
  
• World Food Program of the United Nations.
   
• World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2005. Geneva: WHO Publications.
   
• World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2004. Geneva: WHO Publications.
   
• World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2003. Geneva: WHO Publications.
  
• World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2000. Geneva: WHO Publications.

   

International Justice

• Anti-immigration backlash.  Criticism of anti-immigration attitudes, sponsored by the National Council of Churches.

• Amnesty International.  Includes various reports.  One of the most recent ones concerns the U.S. sale of implements of torture.
   
• Boston Review special issue on "Immigration."
  
  
• Daly, Herman E. "Globalization and its Discontents."  Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2001. [You will need to "scroll" to page 17]
   
• Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform.  An organization that wants to severely restrict immigration into the United State.
  
  
• Globalization.  Marcelo Vásconez's superb Business Ethics page includes not only resources on globalization, but others on the World Trade Organization and sustainable development.
  
  
• "Globalization and the Challenge for Developing Countries."  Working paper for the World Bank (2001)
   
• Holocaust Museum's Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
   
• Immigration and Ethnic History Society.  The principal historical organization studying immigration.  Links to various resources.
  
  
• Third World Women.  A site from About.com with numerous links to issues about the status of women in third world countries.
   
• United Nations Declarations, Covenants, and Treaties on Human Rights.

Torture and Human Rights Abuses

• Amnesty International: U.S. Officials Should Be Investigated for Torture
   
• CIA's Manual on Interrogation and Torture (1963)
   
• Discussion before Senate  of bill to declassify information about torture in Guatemala and Honduras (1998).
   
• "Freedom from Torture."   From Amnesty International
   
• "Torture, American Style" by the Historians against the War.
   
• "Torture at Abu Ghraib" Syemour M. Hersh (New Yorker, May 2004).
   
• TASSC International (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International)
   
• "U.N. Convention against Torture"
   
• World Organization against Torture.
  
  
  
  
  

War and Terrorism

• Aquinas, St. Thomas.  "Of War."  Aquinas description of "Just War" theory has been the foundation of most current debates on topic.
   
• Antiwar.org.  A site, run by libertarians, of essays and links opposed to the war against Iraq.
  
  
• Andre, David.  "The Nature and Conduct of War."  A decorated officer during the Vietnam discusses the nature of war.  Radio interview. [RealAudio]
   
• Clausewitz Links.  Carl von Clausewitze was a Prussian military strategist.  His book On War is still widely read and referred to.  Some consider him the greatest military strategist of all time.
   
  
• DeForrest, Mark Edward. "Just War Theory and the Recent Airstrikes against Iraq."  
  
  
• Department of State.  "Patterns of Global Terrorism."  Annual reports for 1995 - 2000.
   
• Fellowship of Reconciliation. A long-established organization committed to non-violence, world justice, and peace.  Includes classic writings on non-violence by, e.g., Mohandas K. Gandhi and Thomas Merton.
  
  
• Fotion, Nicholas. "The Gulf War: Cleanly Fought."  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 47, no. 7  (September 1991).
   
• Geneva Conventions on War.  The 1977 Conventions.  Treatment of Prisoners.  |  Protection of Civilians.
   
• Grotius, Hugo.  The Laws of War and Peace (in its entirety).  This work is arguably the document that establishes the framework of modern just war theory.
  
  
• Hawk, William.  "Images of the Enemy in War."  A radio interview in which Hawk discusses the ways opposing sides characterize their opponents. [RealAudio]
  
  
• Heritage Foundation.  Homeland Defense.  Lengthy document where the Heritage Foundation spells out the rationale for and nature of homeland defense.
   
• Hitler, Adolph.  "War Propaganda."  A description of the way countries use propaganda during war time.  Instructive reading.
   
• Just War Theory.   A number of links discussing various aspects of just war theory.
   
• The Laws of War.  An extensive collection of major documents on the Laws of War, from the Roman days, until the present.  Includes major treatises, as well as all the important international documents, from the Hague Conventions (1898) until the present.  Courtesy of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
  
  
• Mosley, Alex. "Just War Theory."  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
   
• Joseph Cirincione (Director, Nuclear Proliferation Project, Carnegie Institute for International Peace).  "Nuclear Proliferation."  A radio interview in which Hawk discusses the ways opposing sides characterize their opponents. [RealAudio]
   
• Theories of Just War. From the "Philosophical Society."  Although I don't know this group, this has a number of links to some original sources on the topic.
  
  
• Twain, Mark.  "War Prayer."  
   
• United Nations. Charter of the United Nations..  Links to numerous other UN Documents on War.  UN site's list of documents on Peace and Security.
   
• U.S. and Iraq.  Recently declassified documents showing that former Presidents Regan and George Bush told Saddam Hussein that their public condemnation of his use of weapons of mass destruction were just for public consumption, and in now way hindered the U.S.'s relationship with him.

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