Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on ...

One of out of every three Lebanese have fallen into poverty in 2022 BEIRUT, May 23, 2024 — Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade reaching 44% of the total population, according ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

Sociology, Vol. 46, No. 5, Special Issue: The Sociology of Human Rights (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 906-920 (15 pages) There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, global humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide exposed the corporations and billionaires who could do more to end extreme poverty in its ...

The COVID-19 crisis has led to the first rise in extreme poverty and food insecurity in 20 years. Is it realistic to end these two scourges once and for all? Ahead of the Commission for Social ...

EVER before the recent #Endsars protest which reverberated across the country, with the youth ventilating their anger against unemployment, poverty, harassment, corruption and oppression, Chief ...

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer again called on the state Legislature to deploy $5 million in federal COVID-19 relief allocated to Michigan. The governor also announced the creation of a ...

In Wednesday's general audience, Pope Benedict XVI continued with his series of teachings on the great writers of the Eastern and Western Church by turning his attention today to St. Theodore the ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has urged President Bola Tinubu to take a more proactive approach in tackling the growing poverty crisis in Nigeria by fully committing federal resources to ...

We all love an inspiring success story where the protagonist overcomes adversity, defeats any and all obstacles that stand in their way, and becomes successful through dedication and hard work, ...