Full Coverage: Poverty

31.05.2007 US organisation Save the Children recently released its annual publication - State of the WorldÂ’s Mothers Report. The report also highlights child mortality rates in developing countries including the Child Survival Progress Rankings of 60 countries, which together account for 94 per cent of all child deaths worldwide.

31.05.2007 NEW YORK, May 31 (OneWorld) - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law Congress' plan for continued war funding last Friday -- and with it, an attached proposal to raise the federal minimum wage from its current level of $5.15 to $7.25 per hour in 2009.

30.05.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 (OneWorld) - For the first time in recorded history, the majority of the world's population is living in cities.

30.05.2007 The bangle industry of southern Pakistan employs almost a million people including many children. They work in appalling conditions, are exposed to toxic chemicals and yet earn meager wages.

25.05.2007 Hundreds of NGOs and civil society organisations from nearly 135 countries have gathered at Glasgow, Scotland to call for more accountable governance from governments, the media and civil society.

25.05.2007 During the last two decades the urban slum population of India has increased drastically. According to estimates by the Town and Country Planning Organisation the number of urban slum-dwellers rose from 27.9 million in 1981 to 46.2 million in 1991 and
61.8 million in 2001.

23.05.2007 BRUSSELS, May 23 (IPS) - Mobile phone banking is expanding across the region from South Africa to Kenya and is putting the poor directly in control of their own finances like never before.

23.05.2007 A recent G8 Finance Ministers Meeting held in Potsdam, Germany, overlooked their failure to deliver the promised aid of US$ 50 billion a year to Africa. Oxfam InternationalÂ’s research on current trends of G8 reveals that it had defaulted on its earlier aid commitments made in 2005.

23.05.2007 'Can South Asia End Poverty in a Generation?' This is the theme for a two hour videoconference discussion connecting NGOs and CSOs from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, to be held at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India on May 30, 2007.

21.05.2007 The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) - one of the largest anti-poverty movements - has added climate change to its core agenda after a lengthy and a heated debate.

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18.05.2007 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) celebrated the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on May 17, 2007 by honouring three laureates and through an announcement of a plan to curb cyber crime, connect Africa and connect the young. The ITU helps communities develop radio communication and ICTs worldwide.

18.05.2007 E-Choupal is a unique internet service that has been made available at the doorstep of farmers in India. Introduced by the retail sector, e-Choupal provides farmers with agricultural information through ICTs. Through the e-Choupal initiative, ITC has increased its competitiveness and empowered farmers through access to technology and the Internet.

18.05.2007 Freelance journalist Ratna Bharali Talukdar, based in the north east Indian state of Assam, says that the midday meal scheme is an attraction for children in the primary schools in rural Assam. Even school headmasters agree with its impact in increasing attendance but also put forward several challenges in making the scheme work.

18.05.2007 Freelance journalist Ratna Bharali Talukdar, based in the north east Indian state of Assam, says that the midday meal scheme is an attraction for children in the primary schools in rural Assam. Even school headmasters agree with its impact in increasing attendance but also put forward several challenges in making the scheme work.

18.05.2007 Austrian freelance writer Shelley Seale is researching a book - The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India - on the countryÂ’s 12 million orphans. She claims that social and economic circumstances increase the vulnerability of the children to the HIV virus which not only depletes the human body but also depletes families and communities of their assets.

17.05.2007 NEW YORK, May 17 (OneWorld) - A Congressional plan to give the United States' lowest-paid workers their first raise in nearly 10 years was put on hold earlier this month when U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed the Iraq War spending bill.

17.05.2007 Contract farming is increasingly being presented as a solution for the problems of Indian agriculture, by major international donor agencies, multinational companies and even the government.

11.05.2007 The Memorial University Scholarship Program (RMUSP) offers scholarships for eligible Romani students at the university level. The funds for the first two years of this program were allocated from gold looted by the Nazis during the II World War and held by the Allied Forces.