Full Coverage: Poverty

30.10.2006 The Sachar Committee report, which explored the socio-economic and educational condition of Indian Muslims, had chilling figures to display multiple disadvantages they face, particularly in higher education.

27.10.2006 Radio experts and communicators working on community radio have urged the World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) to give community radio its rightful place as a development tool in the communications debate. Radio specialists are dismayed that the global meet has overlooked the vital role of community radio in empowering people and strengthening democracy in many regions, including, conflict places. OneWorld's Rahul Kumar reports from the congress in Rome.

26.10.2006 Albania participated in the global STAND UP! campaign to reach a new Guinness world record for the largest number of people standing up at the same time in the fight against poverty.

26.10.2006 India ranks low once again on the Global Hunger Index, confirming what development experts have been saying all along -- that the countryÂ’s economic boom is not being matched by corresponding levels of progress in the human development indices

25.10.2006 The first World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) took off in Rome with introspection deep in the minds of development professionals and communication experts, on where does communication stand in the development sector, and whether communication strategies can be given credit for successful development programmes. OneWorld's Rahul Kumar writes from Rome.

25.10.2006 from ItÂ’s Getting Hot In Here blog:
Students help low-income neighbours save energy as part of the Maine Climate Campaign.

25.10.2006 “The Key is in Your Hands”, a documentary film for the education of the Roma was announced the greatest achievement in television journalism by the UN System in Macedonia, under the framework of the International Week of Fight against Poverty.

24.10.2006 BEIJING, Oct 24 (IPS) - Celebrating the success of microfinance as an antidote to poverty has raised some uncomfortable questions here over China's reluctance to allow civil society a bigger role in addressing tough social issues.

24.10.2006 Poverty, especially extreme poverty, is the worst form of degradation of human dignity, a denial of the most basic human rights—economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights.

24.10.2006 The pathology of power structure in the Indian caste system curtails the freedom of Dalits to choose to live as they desire. In other words, the hierarchal and unequal ordering powers in respects to different castes implies that every caste, except those at the top of caste order, suffers in varing degree and the Dalits (or Schedule Castes) who are placed at the bottom of caste hierarchy are denied any power. They depend and serve the higher castes. As a result, this seriously impacts on their ability to fulfil the freedoms they value. Assessing the power structure of the caste system is important to understand the dynamics of well-being of Dalits.

24.10.2006 The first comprehensive global study by the United Nations on "Violence Against Children" says around 275 million children worldwide face domestic violence within the "safe" confines of their homes. The study, which look at the the South Asia regional context — finds that India as the country with the “largest number of working children in the world.”

20.10.2006 The run up to Diwali festivities has seen the launch of a unique campaign in Bangalore by an international charity organisation, Oxfam. Anti poverty campaigners are telling consumers to spare a thought for India's under privileged when they splurge on their Diwali shopping this year.

20.10.2006 In the three decades since secession from Pakistan, Bangladesh has surged way ahead of it in providing essential services to its citizens, according to an Oxfam International report on South Asia

19.10.2006 The boat may be rising but it’s not lifting everyone. Economic growth might have been spectacular since 1993 — that is, post economic reforms — but it seems to have trickled down rather slowly. A soon-to-be-released official report has estimated that poverty declined by a mere 0.74% during the 11-year period ended 2004-05.

19.10.2006 The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit has become something like a religion to many of the powerful, rich and famous. Walden Bello, winner of the Right Livelihood Award, 2003 comments in 'The Nation'.

19.10.2006 The people of Madhya Pradesh have topped the world in creating a new Guinness World Record. A whopping 3.3 million residents of the state joined the "Stand Up Against Poverty" event this week, which is the largest figure from a single region across the world.

19.10.2006 The Bank's Development Outreach features a special report aimed at raising debate and sharing perspectives on understanding the relationship between human rights and economic development

19.10.2006 A Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) needs assessment report has reckoned that the government should mobilize almost double the current level of foreign assistance for the next decade if the goals are to be achieved.

18.10.2006 In churches and schools, in slums and outside posh hotels, on Indian cricket fields and in Mexican football stadiums, close to 24 million people participated in the United Nations-led “STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY” initiative to remind world leaders of their promises to eliminate extreme poverty by 2015.

18.10.2006 MOHAMMED YUNUS of Bangladesh has shown that poor women can take the lead in development. When Mr. Yunus first started Grameen Bank, he started giving loans to men, but the repayment rate was poor and Grameen Bank could not grow. He then observed that women were borrowing and repaying much better than men, and he allowed women to take the lead.