FILE- Indian workers are seen silhouetted as they load rice
sacks onto a truck at a grain market on the eve of World Food
Day in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. The U.N.
agency Food and Agriculture Organization is reporting on Friday
June 19, 2009, that over 1 billion people across the world are
hungry, according to FAO, an historic high level of hunger that
is the result of the financial downturn combined with
persistently high food prices. The agency's Director-General
Jacques Diouf has said "The silent hunger crisis, affecting one-
sixth of all of humanity, poses a serious risk for world peace
and security".(AP Photo/ Altaf Qadri, FILE) Professors at the
University of Nebraska Lincoln estimate there are 2,000 slaves
in Nebraska. Ron Hampton, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln
professor, says he knows of a recent case involving a 12-year-
old Central American girl sold to a Mexican slave trader after
her family left her in her uncle's care. She landed in central
Nebraska unable to speak English or tr