"The upshot of all this is famine and mass exodus of its people while the regime spends hundreds of millions of dollars to build the mausoleum for Kim Il Sung's dead body".
The famine and mass displacement, which began over the summer, have made women and girls more vulnerable.
There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.
In 1878 an agricultural crisis in Ireland seemed to threaten a repetition of the terrible famine and mass evictions of tenant farmers of the 1840s.
The Xhosa were then subjected to taxation and confined to areas with infertile land, both of which, in combination with drought, cattle disease, and political despair, led to famine and mass starvation in 1856 57.
Pepsi and Coke invest fortunes to promote their products over their rivals, while humanitarians aren't nearly as savvy about marketing causes with far higher stakes — famine, disease, mass murder.
Ireland's history of conquest and colonization, of famine and mass emigration, and of resistance, rebellion, and civil war etched its literature with a series of ruptures and revivals.
The fashionable hope that windfarms or recycling could prevent global famine and mass migration was, he assured me, a fantasy; it was too late for ethical consumption to save us.
In October of that year, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, he said, "There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, more famine, more mass displacement — all of which will fuel more conflict for decades".
And so an ethnically and religiously mixed African country, with an egalitarian brand of Sufism as its dominant form of Islam, was mobilized by intellectuals and soldiers to create a militaristic, ideologically extreme state whose main achievements were civil war, slavery, famine, and mass death.
