Full Coverage: Poverty

30.11.2007

30.11.2007 The World Food Programme invites the online community to raise awareness on global hunger by participating in an international short video contest. The five most compelling clips, between 30-60 seconds in length, will be webcast through YouTube.

29.11.2007 A report by the United Nations World Food Programme, released ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, highlights links between hunger, poor health and HIV/AIDS. Life-saving drugs are more effective when people are well nourished and healthy, the report says.

29.11.2007 Meet survivors Lisa and Resma in a photo essay by UNICEF – two nine-year olds in Barisal district, who are working hard with their families to recover what they lost in the devastating storm.

27.11.2007 To promote efforts towards eradication of poverty, full employment and social integration, the United Nations General Assembly will observe 20 February annually as the World Day of Social Justice, beginning in 2009.

27.11.2007 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in his ‘moment of enlightenment’ has described the act of manual scavenging a spiritual experience for dalits! In India, more than one million people are engaged in this inhuman and degrading form of work, despite a law that prohibits either employment of scavengers or construction of dry latrines.

23.11.2007 The WorldFish is organising an e-consultation from November 24 to December 7, 2007 on how to use information and communication technologies in fisheries and aquaculture programmes. Identifying and linking people, use of ICT, and discussing options for further work in this field are the objectives for holding these consultations.

21.11.2007 The Vanasthali Rural Development Centre (VRDC) in Pune was started with a simple thought: to train rural women to enable them start balwadis or nurseries in their villages. Years later, activist Nirmala Purandare's dream has heralded a social revolution with the training of barefoot teachers in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

21.11.2007 In September 2007, over 600 people assembled in Indian capital New Delhi to put the World Bank on trial through an independent peopleÂ’s tribunal. Neil Tangri in his incisive article describes the tribunal as an attempt to renew a silenced debate over neoliberlaism and a direct challenge to the BankÂ’s monopoly on knowledge.

19.11.2007 Barely a village has been left untouched by the Cyclone Sidr in south-western Bangladesh. As tolls mount over two thousand, it is seen that the poor have been hit hardest by the storm.

19.11.2007 Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank, says Bangladesh will eradicate poverty by 2030 and wants India to take up the challenge as well. On a recent visit to India, he spoke on the bankÂ’s role, poverty museums, and issues close to his heart.

15.11.2007 The MDG Monitor is a new resource offering from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with several other UN bodies with assistance from Google and Cisco. It is a quick and easy MDG tracking tool for policymakers, journalists, students and development professionals.

15.11.2007 A new resource, the MDG Monitor, created by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with several other UN bodies with assistance from Google and Cisco, is an excellent tool for policymakers, journalists, students and others to learn about the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

15.11.2007

15.11.2007 Experts from international development groups answer your questions about efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

14.11.2007 On the eve of ChildrenÂ’s Day in India, a petition signed by 300,001 children was submitted to the government, demanding 9% of the Gross Domestic Product to be invested in education and health.

14.11.2007 Watch Gudia, an eight-year-old Indian girl in Jammu, scavenging engine oil at an auto workshop. A slide show by Reuters.

12.11.2007 FreeRice, an innovative internet-based vocabulary game is helping mobilise millions of people in the fight against global hunger. For every correct answer, the site donates ten grains of rice to the World Food Programme. One billion grains of rice have been donated in the last one month – enough to feed more than 50,000 people for one day.

12.11.2007 Of the hundred and fifty thousand suicides by farmers in India in the last decade, nearly two-thirds have occurred in the region where they have been engaged in growing cash crops. This region today has acquired a dubious distinction of ‘Special Elimination Zone’ or suicide SEZ. The Special Economic Zones are lands earmarked for industrial growth with massive subsidies granted to capitalists.

09.11.2007 LOS ANGELES, Nov 9 (OneWorld) - As Americans prepare to honor their military veterans with parades and patriotism this weekend, a new study shows that 494,500 U.S. war vets lived homeless on the street for at least part of last year.