Canada Must Act on the Global Hunger Crisis at the G7 Summit

Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 Canada Must Act on the Global Hunger Crisis at the G7 Summit Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, April 14, 2023 As leading Canadian humanitarian and development organizations who are gravely concerned about the escalating global hunger crisis, we are writing to urge you to take action to help save lives and bu. [...] Women and children continue to be disproportionately impacted in this crisis, with girls not only eating last and least, but also suffering from the knock-on impacts to their rights in the form of gender-based violence, child marriage and increased barriers to education. [...] The cyclical nature of hunger crises is a result of the inability to address the underlying drivers in contexts which have been hunger hotspots for years, such as Somalia, Yemen, northeast Nigeria, and Haiti. [...] Publicly report on efforts to implement the commitments outlined in the 2021 G7 Famine Compact and call on G7 allies to do the same. [...] Yours sincerely, CC: The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs The Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance David Morrison, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Personal Representative of the Prime.