UK's 'cruel and harmful policies' lack regard for child hunger, says NGO

Damning Human Rights Watch report accuses the government of breaching its duty

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the UK government of breaching its international duty to keep people from hunger by pursuing “cruel and harmful polices” with no regard for the impact on children living in poverty.

Examining family poverty in Hull, Cambridgeshire and Oxford, it concluded that tens of thousands of families do not have enough to eat. And it revealed that schools in Oxford are the latest to have turned to food banks to feed their pupils.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WdUvTt