Avainsana: poverty
Lifting 100 million out of poverty by 2025 still possible, despite recession threat
A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new…
The more you learn, the more you earn: education and poverty alleviation in Thailand
A good education is often seen as a route out of poverty, but many disadvantaged children are unable to finish school. In Thailand, a project…
EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty
Some 20 million children in the EU are at risk of poverty according to the Special Rapporteur’s report. The European Union’s failure to lift 20…
Stand in solidarity with world’s poor, UN chief says in message for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
The UN Secretary-General has called for solidarity with all people living in poverty, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Secretary-General António Guterres issued the appeal…
COVID pushes millions more children deeper into poverty, new study finds
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty – deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – a…
Hitting women hard, pandemic makes gender poverty gap wider – U.N.
The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year,…
Punished for being poor? Mexico child labor case makes poverty a crime, critics say
The arrest of three Mexican women accused of trafficking more than 20 children from within their extended family has been criticized by rights activists, who…
Southeast Asia poverty to surge in ’socio-economic crisis’: UN
Southeast Asia is on the brink of a ”socio-economic crisis” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that could reverse decades of poverty reduction, the United Nations…
UK waste incinerators three times as likely to be in deprived areas
Waste incinerators are three times as likely to be situated in the most deprived and ethnically diverse areas of the UK, it has been revealed,…
Refugees freed from Greek camp ’hell’ left homeless
When Amir Hussein was finally allowed to leave the horrific migrant camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, it was supposed to be…
U.N. report suggests temporary basic income to help world’s poorest amid pandemic
A temporary basic income for the world’s poorest 2.7 billion people in 132 developing countries could help slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing…
1 in 5 children in Germany grow up in poverty
Some 2.8 million children in Germany — or one in five — are growing up in poverty, a report from the Bertelsmann Foundation published Wednesday…
Pandemic could push 45 million in Latin America into poverty: UN
The COVID-19 pandemic could push 45 million people from the middle classes into poverty in already economically troubled Latin America and the Caribbean, the United…
As surrogacy booms, fears Ukraine becoming ’online baby store’
Tears of joy stream down Andrea Viez’s face as she lifts her baby boy, born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine. After nine years of…
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