Poverty and violence push 378,000 Central Americans north each year
New York: For the past five years, poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence have pushed, on average, some 378,000 Central Americans a year into the United States, according to a new report launched on Tuesday by the UN food relief agency.
Afghan people may face extreme poverty by mid-2022: UN body
New Delhi/UNI: People in Afghanistan may become victims of extreme poverty by mid-2022, International Organisation for Migration- UN Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
Rising poverty a ‘moral indictment of our times’: Guterres
New York: For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN chief said in his message released on Friday, marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17 October.
EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty
New York: The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, urging the bloc to boldly rethink its whole socio-economic approach.
China using ‘dibao’ social safety net to silence dissent: Researcher
Washington; A US-based social scientist has claimed that the role of China’s social safety net programme, known as dibao, has shifted over time from providing support to the poor and vulnerable to being used partly as a tool to repress dissent.
One in six children living in extreme poverty, with figure set to rise during pandemic
New York: An estimated one in six children – or 356 million globally – were living in extreme poverty before the COVID-19 pandemic began, and this is set to worsen significantly, according to a new World Bank Group and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) analysis released on Tuesday.
Women bear the brunt, as COVID erodes progress on eradicating extreme poverty
New York: The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout will likely push 47 million more women into poverty, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty, new data released on Wednesday by the UN has revealed.
UN report sends ‘sobering message’ of deeply entrenched hunger globally
New York: In much of the world, “hunger remains deeply entrenched and is rising”, the UN chief said on Monday, launching this year’s major UN food security update, highlighting that over the past five years, tens of millions of people have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished.
Independent rights expert speaks of 'anguish, stress and disempowerment' of poverty
New York: More than 70 million people are expected to fall into extreme poverty because of COVID-19, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Tuesday, as a leading rights expert slammed “greatly exaggerated” claims of global poverty eradication between 1990 and 2015.
Support measures helped prevent poverty increase in Russia amid COVID-19 - World Bank
Moscow/Sputnik: The government's support measures helped Russia avoid a sudden increase in poverty amid the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank's Country Director for Russia Renaud Seligmann told Sputnik.
‘Spectre of poverty’ hangs over tribes and indigenous groups: UN labour agency
New York/IBNS: Indigenous and tribal communities are around three times more likely to face extreme poverty than others with women “consistently at the bottom of all social and economic indicators”, UN labour experts said on Monday.
Ending extreme poverty crucial to sustainable future for all: UN chief
New York: A sustainable future for all is unlikely unless globalization benefits all children, their families and communities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on Thursday.
Ending extreme poverty crucial to sustainable future for all: UN chief
New York: A sustainable future for all is unlikely unless globalization benefits all children, their families and communities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on Friday.
Global response to poverty and environmental goals 'not ambitious enough’
New York, July 10 (IBNS): The global response to realizing poverty and environmental goals agreed by world leaders in 2015 has not been “ambitious enough” according to the UN Secretary-General.
China determined to end poverty by 2020
Beijing, Apr 20 (UNI) Chinese President Xi Jinping is determined to end all of the poverty in China by 2020.