People, with faces hidden by paper plates, lie down on the steps of the Opera Garnier in Paris October 15, 2009. Demonstrators attend the protest to highlight the one billion people in the world who have been pushed into hunger in 2009, according to a report on Wednesday by U.N. agencies ahead of the World Food Day. The slogan reads "Hunger is not a fate, it is a scandal". [Agencies]

A woman, with her face hidden by a paper plate which reads "I am Hungry", lies down on the steps of the Opera Garnier in Paris October 15, 2009. Demonstrators attended the protest to highlight the one billion people in the world who have been pushed into hunger in 2009, according to a report on Wednesday by U.N. agencies ahead of World Food Day. [Agencies]