In most European countries, the average income of people over 65 is lower than that of the total population, according to the OECD. In several cases, elderly incomes fall below 80% of the national ...

In Germany, 17.6 million people, corresponding to 21.2% of the country's population last year, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. One in five people in the country experienced these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Housing is a social right, yet tens of millions of Europeans are forced to live in cold homes. According to Eurostat, more than 41 ...

Children remain disproportionately affected by poverty, along with people with disabilities. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Many displaced people live in extreme poverty. The most vulnerable among them are so poor that they can’t engage in activities from most regular livelihood programmes. They are also short of basic ...

Romania registers one of the highest shares in Europe of people aged over 16 with disabilities who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to Eurostat data processed by Monitorul Social, ...

The cost of menstrual products remains a little-discussed form of inequality, even though it affects large numbers of women and girls in wealthy Western European countries as well as in the Balkans.