Full coverage: Poverty

31.08.2005 The UN has reported that an increasing number of people are disappearing in Nepal and this is being done by both - the government as well as the Maoist rebels. In another report, UNICEF has said that an estimated 2.4 million children and women are trafficked every year for prostitution, forced labour and mining work.

31.08.2005 Le Vénézuela est apparu pendant longtemps comme un paradoxe. D’une part, le pays était gouverné par une petite élite au contrôle du secteur public et du secteur privé. D’autre part, c’était un pays démocratique avec un Parlement élu et composé essentiellement par deux grands partis qui alternaient au pouvoir. Cette démocratie vénézuélienne faisait contraste avec de nombreux pays d’Amérique latine dominés par les militaires.

30.08.2005 Launched in January 2005, BIOTIK is an initiative in biodiversity informatics looks at developing two knowledge bases of the tree species of Western Ghats, India and Northern Annamites of Lao PDR.

30.08.2005 Launched in January 2004, OSCAR looks at developing an open source weed identification software for the major weed species of Rice-Wheat crop systems which can be deployed on Simputers. The application will address extension workers, farmers/farmer groups, students in the Indo-Gangetic plains.

30.08.2005 The UK government was on Sunday blasted by development agencies for blowing £700,000 of a £3m relief project meant for Malawi—a country plagued by drought, HIV/AIDS, and a disastrous economy—on hotel bills and meals for U.S. consultants.

30.08.2005 Every day 30,000 children die due to preventable illness and malnutrition. From September 14-16, world leaders will be meeting in New York to discuss the MDGs. The Millennium Campaign urges you to take one of three actions and lend your support to the 30,000 Campaign against poverty.

30.08.2005 Adelanto de las nuevas tasas: La desocupación descendió al 12,1% en el segundo trimestre del año, según el adelanto de resultados de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares difundido por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. La nueva tasa representa una baja de 0,9 puntos respecto al 13% registrado en el primer trimestre de 2005 y de 2,7 puntos si se compara con el 14,8% de un año atrás. Sin el Plan Jefes y Jefas de Hogar, el desempleo sería aún de 15,7%.

29.08.2005 Kööpenhaminassa torstaina koolla olleet Pohjoismaiden kehitysyhteistyöministerit painottavat vammaisnäkökulman tärkeyttä ja sitä, että vammaisten tulisi olla mukana kaikessa kansainvälisessä kehitysyhteistyössä. Toteutuakseen tämä vaatii lisää toimia. Köyhyyden vähentäminen ei ole mahdollista ilman vammaisten huomioimista, sillä kehitysmaiden vammaiset ja heidän perheensä ovat köyhimmistä köyhimpiä.

26.08.2005 La lutte contre la pauvreté est l’un des cinq objectifs prioritaires du Fonds de justice sociale de l’AFPC (FJS). Il était donc tout naturel qu’il s’associe aux nombreux organismes qui pilotent la campagne mondiale « Abolissons la pauvreté », lancée en 2005.
Dans le cadre de cette campagne, le FJS financera une quinzaine de projets de lutte contre la pauvreté au Canada. Y a-t-il, dans votre milieu, des initiatives antipauvreté qui bénéficieraient du soutien du FJS? Si

26.08.2005 At the beginning of the week, Suvareka MA agreed with the American Refugees Committee (ARC) the construction of 14 residential houses, including other accompanying infrastructure such as the road, water supply and sewage network. ARC will allocate 320.000€ for the construction of these houses, with Suvareka Municipality contributing additional 6000€ of its own to the implementation of the project.

26.08.2005 A rural bank in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, run by illiterate village women, has provided women with a stable livelihood, even during periods of drought. The village women negotiated with a national bank and convinced officials to initiate the bank for the women.

25.08.2005 Participants at World Water Week 2005, currently underway in Stockholm, are discussing ways of meeting future water and sanitation-related development needs. The meet is being held just weeks before the United Nations' will conduct a review of the progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

25.08.2005 This essay is meant to contribute to understanding how people in developing countries use technology, what they want from it, how they can and do form communities based on absorbing and mastering new technologies imported from rich countries, and how they might design their own technologies in ways that are potentially more suitable to the conditions in poor countries and thus more likely to raise living standards in these countries. In a world where two billion people live on two dollars a day, raising living standards remains an urgent task.

25.08.2005 The Agriculture department has opened information centres in various parts of Tiruchi district for providing technical inputs and assistance to farmers.

23.08.2005 On 10 September, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is organising White Band Day 2 – the second in a series of massive international mobilisations. GCAP will send a clear message to governments across the world that politicians must keep their promises to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

23.08.2005 Zimbabwen kurjuutta paenneita on pelkästään Etelä-Afrikassa parisen miljoonaa. He tuskailevat nyt sitä, miten toimittaa rahaa kotiväelle ilman suuria kuluja. Taksi on ratkaisu halvimmasta päästä. Zimbabwelaiset pyrkivät viimeiseen asti välttämään virallisia pankkikanavia rahalähetyksissään, sillä keinotekoinen virallinen vaihtokurssi tekee siitä hyvin kallista.

23.08.2005 READ - Rural Education And Development, Nepal - has been building community libraries. These libraries are run with the active participation of the community and have their own income generating scheme for meeting operating costs and financial sustainability.

23.08.2005 A report released Monday by leading development agency, Plan International, reveals that despite Asia's much lauded development and economic growth rates, millions of children in the region live in abject poverty and continue to die before their fifth birthday as a result of malnutrition, and little or no access to sanitation.

23.08.2005 Pesë vjet pas Samitit të Mileniumit, udhëheqësit e botës do të mblidhen nga 14 deri në 16 Shtator, për të diskutuar progresin e Zhvillimeve të Mileniumit (ZhM) në samitin e Kombeve të Bashkuara.

22.08.2005 The anti-poverty demands of developing countries have been ignored or watered down in the draft declaration of the forthcoming UN Millennium Development Goals summit, according to a leading anti-poverty lobby group.