""We can no longer delude ourselves by thinking that the consequences of our failures impact only those who are hidden out of sight," he said. "The hungry faces of so many who still suffer challenge us and invite us to reexamine our lifestyles, our priorities and our overall way of living in today's world.""
""We must make their suffering our own," he concluded in English, after delivering most of his speech in Spanish."
""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, an historic offence," he said."
A call urged world leaders to show responsibility and focus on populations facing hunger, wars, and misery. The conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, Haiti, Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic, Yemen, and South Sudan were identified as driving forces behind food emergencies. U.N. data show about 673 million people do not eat enough each day. The use of hunger as a weapon of war was condemned as a moral atrocity. Suffering from hunger was characterized as a collective failure and ethical derailment. Cuts in funding to U.N. food aid agencies, including severe reductions affecting the World Food Program, threaten operations and risk forcing millions into emergency hunger.
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