Full coverage: Poverty

30.10.2006 Valtion keskeinen rooli Kiinan pienluottojärjestelmässä vaikuttaa samoin kuin jalan katkaiseminen juoksijalta, sanoo mikroluottojen isä, Muhammad Yunus. Hänen kotimaassaan Bangladeshissa pienlainoitus on kokonaan kansalaisjärjestöjen hoidossa.

30.10.2006 The Sachar Committee report, which explored the socio-economic and educational condition of Indian Muslims, had chilling figures to display multiple disadvantages they face, particularly in higher education.

27.10.2006 Suomen pitkäaikainen kehitysyhteistyön kumppani Mosambik yrittää nostaa yhä useamman asukkaansa köyhyydestä. 19-vuotias Bento António Mustafa on nähnyt kotikaupunkinsa Nampulan teiden, sähkönjakelun ja juomaveden parantuneen. Hän ja viisi muuta nampulalaista kertovat, miten heidän näkökulmastaan Mosambik on muuttunut.

27.10.2006 Radio experts and communicators working on community radio have urged the World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) to give community radio its rightful place as a development tool in the communications debate. Radio specialists are dismayed that the global meet has overlooked the vital role of community radio in empowering people and strengthening democracy in many regions, including, conflict places. OneWorld's Rahul Kumar reports from the congress in Rome.

26.10.2006 Albania participated in the global STAND UP! campaign to reach a new Guinness world record for the largest number of people standing up at the same time in the fight against poverty.

26.10.2006 India ranks low once again on the Global Hunger Index, confirming what development experts have been saying all along -- that the country’s economic boom is not being matched by corresponding levels of progress in the human development indices

26.10.2006 The first World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) took off in Rome with introspection deep in the minds of development professionals and communication experts, on where does communication stand in the development sector, and whether communication strategies can be given credit for successful development programmes. OneWorld's Rahul Kumar writes from Rome.

25.10.2006 Prishtinë - Katër çmime për gazetarë të cilët me raportet e tyre kanë pasqyruar më së miri varfërinë në Kosovë, janë dhënë të martën në Prishtinë nga UNDP-ja, në Ditën Ndërkombëtare të OKB-së.

25.10.2006 from It’s Getting Hot In Here blog:
Students help low-income neighbours save energy as part of the Maine Climate Campaign.

25.10.2006 Yli 400 miljoonaa lasta kärsii syntymästä lähtien aliravitsemuksesta. Varhaislapsuuden aliravitsemuksesta on vakavia seurauksia lapsen terveydelle ja menestykselle myöhemmässä iässä. Ruokailu on sisällytettävä osaksi kehitysyhteistyöhankkeiden koulutusta, sillä oikea ravinto on edellytys aivojen kehitykselle ja oppimiskyvylle, painottaa James Morris Maailman elintarvikeohjelmasta (WFP).

25.10.2006 Köyhyys, ennen kaikkea äärimmäinen köyhyys, on ihmisen pahin alistamisen muoto. Monet ihmisoikeudet jäävät köyhien kohdalla toteutumatta – taloudelliset, yhteiskunnalliset, kulttuuriset, kansalais- ja poliittiset oikeudet. Valtioiden pitäisikin huolehtia erityisesti köyhien ja vähäosaisten oikeuksien toteutumisesta.

25.10.2006 “The Key is in Your Hands”, a documentary film for the education of the Roma was announced the greatest achievement in television journalism by the UN System in Macedonia, under the framework of the International Week of Fight against Poverty.

25.10.2006 BEIJING, Oct 24 (IPS) - Celebrating the success of microfinance as an antidote to poverty has raised some uncomfortable questions here over China's reluctance to allow civil society a bigger role in addressing tough social issues.

24.10.2006 Vaikka Aasialla ja Tyynenmeren alueella menee kokonaisuutena melko hyvin, uhkaa moni keskeisistä vuosituhattavoitteista jäädä haaveeksi yksittäisten maiden kohdalla, todetaan YK:n raportissa. Verrattuna Saharan eteläpuoliseen Afrikkaan ja jopa Latinalaiseen Amerikkaan Aasia kulkee vauhdilla kohti YK:n vuosituhattavoitteita.

24.10.2006 Poverty, especially extreme poverty, is the worst form of degradation of human dignity, a denial of the most basic human rights—economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights.

24.10.2006 The pathology of power structure in the Indian caste system curtails the freedom of Dalits to choose to live as they desire. In other words, the hierarchal and unequal ordering powers in respects to different castes implies that every caste, except those at the top of caste order, suffers in varing degree and the Dalits (or Schedule Castes) who are placed at the bottom of caste hierarchy are denied any power. They depend and serve the higher castes. As a result, this seriously impacts on their ability to fulfil the freedoms they value. Assessing the power structure of the caste system is important to understand the dynamics of well-being of Dalits.

24.10.2006 The first comprehensive global study by the United Nations on "Violence Against Children" says around 275 million children worldwide face domestic violence within the "safe" confines of their homes. The study, which look at the the South Asia regional context — finds that India as the country with the “largest number of working children in the world.”

20.10.2006 Yhden vuorokauden aikana yhteensä 23 542 614 ihmistä yli sadassa maailman maassa osoitti tukensa YK:n vuosituhattavoitteille ja nousi kirjaimellisesti seisomaan köyhyyttä vastaan "Stand Up" –tempauksessa, jota koordinoivat YK:n vuosituhatkampanja sekä Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) -verkosto. Tempauksella pyrittiin Guinnessin ennätysten kirjaan, ja tavoite saavutettiin.

20.10.2006 The run up to Diwali festivities has seen the launch of a unique campaign in Bangalore by an international charity organisation, Oxfam. Anti poverty campaigners are telling consumers to spare a thought for India's under privileged when they splurge on their Diwali shopping this year.

20.10.2006 In the three decades since secession from Pakistan, Bangladesh has surged way ahead of it in providing essential services to its citizens, according to an Oxfam International report on South Asia