Poverty
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 18, 2022
When Kimba Abdou went to a local store a year ago to buy a 100-kilogram bag of millet, a staple grain for Nigeriens, he parted with 20,000 West African francs, known as CFA, or about $31. The last time…
- Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Poverty
- Susanne Courtney
- • July 12, 2022
With the world facing an unprecedented food crisis, the smallest of the three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations — the International Fund for Agricultural Development — has a new president. Álvaro Lario, its chief financial officer and a…
- Categories: Development, Poverty, SDGs, UN Agencies
- Fiona Harvey
- • June 28, 2022
Food, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical companies that have enjoyed bumper profits in the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath should be hit with a swingeing windfall tax on their excess income, the global head of Oxfam has said. A windfall…
- Categories: Climate Change, Health and Population, Poverty
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • November 9, 2021
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as Amlo for his initials, called on the United Nations to “wake up from its slumber” and support the creation of a mechanism to end poverty for 750 million people worldwide. In…
- Categories: General Assembly, Latin America, Poverty, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
In times of extreme adversity, hope and light can come from unexpected places. In South Sudan — haunted by a war for independence, followed by a civil war and continued unrest in its short history — people can point…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Poverty, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 23, 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals are in trouble. United Nations officials are concerned and say so publicly. Secretary-General António Guterres joined in raising an alarm in mid-July when he introduced the most recent official UN report. “It is abundantly clear…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development, Poverty, SDGs
- Eleanor Nwadinobi and Meera Khanna
- • June 17, 2019
For many women around the world, the death of a spouse is magnified by many losses — of their social status, marital home, land, property, social security, dignity and, sometimes, their children. But men, on the other hand, lose…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS
- Prakirti Nangia
- • April 3, 2019
Social policy in developing countries provides crucial assistance to women, but evidence shows that it is increasingly being limited to women who are mothers. India is a vivid case in point. Associating women with children and families is hardly…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS
- Kacie Candela
- • December 24, 2018
By one measure — the chances of surviving to young adulthood — sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have the highest rates of child deaths at every stage of childhood. By contrast, the best place to be born this year…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Health and Population, Poverty
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • June 28, 2018
When Philip Alston decided to focus a report on the United States, in his role as the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the goal was to spur a larger discussion. However, in the past…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, Poverty, US-UN Relations
- Rhona Scullion
- • May 1, 2018
NOTTINGHAM, England — Prisoner rights are not a popular topic either in the hallowed halls of the British Parliament or in the public domain in Britain. Aside from the standard “tough on crime” approach that most governments adopt as…
- Categories: Human Rights, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 11, 2018
International organizations, governments and a vast army of nongovernmental organizations justifiably welcome the sharp reductions that have been achieved in global poverty in recent decades. Data researchers show, however, that when it comes to defining who are the poorest,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Poverty, Take a Look
- Kacie Candela
- • February 27, 2018
Blockchain technology emerged alongside Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency powering digital payments through a peer-to-peer system, currency trading and even, in some cases, black-market transactions. Now, some United Nations agencies are using blockchain to provide basic identification to refugees and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees, UN Agencies
- Ariel Sophia Bardi
- • February 26, 2018
HARYANA, India — In 2014, Breakthrough India, an independent human-rights organization, launched a program to tackle gender discrimination throughout 150 schools in Haryana, one of India’s most gender-biased states. A 2011 census showed that Haryana, a primarily agricultural state…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, India, Poverty
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 18, 2018
There has yet to be a decision in United States Congress on what funds for global women’s health, if any, will survive in the current 2018 national budget, a decision that is nearly six months overdue. But Donald Trump…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Poverty, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
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