Introduction:

Although farmers of Asia, Africa, and Latin America produced over half of the grain harvested worldwide during 1989-90, Patricia L. Kutzner in her 1991 work Contemporary World Issues: World Hunger points out that at least a billion people within those continents during that harvest period suffered from hunger. Today, nineteen years after institutional responses and media coverage on the world hunger crisis, this paradox, in which food exists in abundance amidst intensifying world hunger, still plagues the most vulnerable parts of the world. Download the attachment to read the full article.

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The Oromo-American Citizens Council (OACC) is holding it's 4th Annual International Conference on Human Rights on Saturday, March 13, 2010, on the topic: “What’s Next For The Oromo People? – Input From Oromo Political and Civic Organizations.”

Panels include:

- Fido Ebba, Ph.D. – Oromo Liberation Front, Member of the National Council
- Hassan Hussein – Oromo Liberation Front, Member of Executive Council
- Abrahim Abaye – Oromo Liberation Front National Council Member
- Abduljelil Abdalla – Council of Oromo People Liberation Front, Executive Council
- Bekele Jirata – Oromo Federal Democratic Movement, General Secretary
- Merera Gudina, Ph.D. – Oromo People Congress, & Medrek, Chairman
- Gemechis Buba, Ph.D. – Oromo Evangelical Churches, Worldwide Union, President
- Asafa Jalatta, Ph.D. – University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Associate Professor of Sociology, Global and African Studies
- Ezekiel Gebissa, Ph.D. – Kettering University, Assistant Professor of Social Science

Below is the full Press Release:

Oromo-American Citizens Council (OACC) Press Release

What: 4th Annual International Human Rights Conference Presented by OACC
When: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 1-7p.m.
Where: University of Minnesota, Willey Hall, University of Minnesota West Bank, 225 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Topic: What’s Next for the Oromo People? An Input From Oromo Political and Civic Organizations.

Oromos residing in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, in Minnesota, and around the world have profound ideas about their freedom, democracy, self determination, peace, and human rights. Many Oromo organizations (political and non political) have raised their voices and concerns.