Full coverage: Poverty

26.06.2008 Corruption is a fundamental cause and catalyst of the global water crisis, which currently threatens the lives of billions of people around the world, says a new report from a global coalition against corruption.
From: Transparency International

23.06.2008 Privatization, free trade, and market forces...the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies, asks Duncan Green.
From: New Statesman

18.06.2008 The G-8 foreign ministers, meeting next week, must deal decisively with the humanitarian toll that rising food prices and reduced foreign aid are taking on Africa, said a panel of leaders focused on African progress.

18.06.2008 Wastepickers in Delhi, who live and work in profoundly unsanitary conditions, won a major concession earlier this month from their local government: a portable toilet.
The Advocacy Project

14.06.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (OneWorld) - Millions of people across the world are more likely to face hunger and starvation due to disruption in aid deliveries caused by the rising prices of food, UN officials said this week.

13.06.2008 A group of South African women support their families by making recycled bottles into bead necklaces. The artisans -- and the steps they take to produce their crafts -- are featured in this slide show.

11.06.2008 Individual Africans consume less on average than residents of any other continent, but rising population is bringing Africa close to its ecological limits, according to the first detailed assessment of Africa's ecological footprint.

09.06.2008 Single mother Judith Alexandre and other Haitian families are hard hit by raised food prices, but an international relief organization is working diligently to provide for those who have no other option but to skip meals.
From: Oxfam America

06.06.2008 As the UN summit on the global hunger crisis comes to a close today, advocacy groups are demanding greater attention be afforded small-scale and women farmers.

05.06.2008 An additional 1 million people in developing countries began receiving anti-retroviral therapy by the end of 2007, bringing the total number of HIV-positive people receiving treatment to 3 million, states a new UN report.

05.06.2008 BEIJING, Jun 4 (IPS) - Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world, says the founder of the Earth Policy Institute.

04.06.2008 A minute-long video from a Washington, DC-based think tank depicts the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act as helplessly out of date and encourages Americans to demand change.

04.06.2008 Government-run agricultural banks could be the key to combating the global food crisis by giving poor farmers access to high-yield seeds, fertilizers, and small-scale irrigation to increase crop yields, writes development expert Jeffrey Sachs.
From: Project Syndicate

04.06.2008 Nepalese villagers return to their homes after a decade of war only to battle the familiar enemies of hunger and malnutrition.

04.06.2008 Reproductive rights activist Mary Bloom discusses the link between gender inequality in Africa and the devastatingly high rate of HIV infection among African women.

04.06.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jun 3 (OneWorld) - As world leaders meet in Rome to discuss the current global food crisis, calls are growing for immediate and practical actions to address the plight of millions of poor facing hunger and starvation across the world.

03.06.2008 A group of indigenous women in the Argentinean highlands have become global entrepreneurs and key participants in local politics while dealing with the mountain of lead in their backyard.

03.06.2008 Hundreds of thousands of Uzbekistani high school graduates are choosing to work as migrant laborers rather than go to college due to the unemployment and poverty that afflict their rural communities.

03.06.2008 India's Planning Commission has cautioned against treating left-wing extremism in the country as a mere law and order problem while drawing attention to its socio-economic dimensions. Poverty, lack of access to forest resources and other deprivations are cited as reasons for growth of
naxalism in a recent report.

02.06.2008 The international community must revise short-term solutions to the displacement crisis in the eastern DR Congo as an additional 60,000 people recently fled their homes due to ceasefire violations by local armed groups.
From: Refugees International