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An important part of reducing hunger and poverty is influencing public policy. Governments play a key role in allocating resources and adopting policies that influence the lives of poor and hungry people. Hunger Notes strongly suggests that you join one (or more) U.S. anti-hunger advocacy and public policy organizations.
Key advocacy and public policy groups in the United States include the following.
Bread for the World is a national Christian grassroots organization that seeks justice for the world's hungry people, including people in the U.S. by lobbying Congress and other U.S. decision makers. Its current principal issue is debt forgiveness for the poorest countries.
RESULTS, an international citizens' lobby whose purpose is to create the political will to end hunger and poverty. In the U.S., it has been successful in mobilizing volunteers to campaign for programs which combat domestic poverty, as well as for increased world wide attention to microenterprise lending.
Food First, the Institute for Food and Development Policy, has been producing high-quality alternative research and public education for two decades. A principal issue now is guaranteeing economic rights such as the right to food and other for all people. The United States has not ratified key treaties, such as the convention on the rights of the child, that provide a legal framework for economic and social rights.
World Hunger Year (WHY) seeks to promote partnerships for empowerment and community building. Members receive its excellent publication WHY.
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country. It provides news and legislative updates, research materials, and other support services to organizations throughout the U.S. It is not a membership organization.
 DEBT FORGIVENESS
Hunger Notes and World Hunger Education Service would like to thank everyone who participated with us in the one day fast in support of debt forgiveness. Work on debt forgiveness for the world's poorest countries will continue in 2000. For updates see the Jubilee 2000/USA web site . Other organizations working on debt forgiveness may be accessed at http://www.j2000usa.org/links.html.
THANKS TO ALL!