Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition worldwide are the major focus of this book, taken up as the principal areas of human deprivation with wide geographical variations as determined by different factors. Gender discrimination in its various manifestations and child abuse also feature very prominently as other forms of deprivation corroding life and attitudes of people requiring very serious concern to deal with the prevailing humiliating situation along with an assessment of the earth's capability of redressing human sufferance through poverty and hunger.