World leaders warn goals to fight hunger, poverty, climate change in peril
United NationsReuters World leaders meeting at the United Nations on Monday warned of the peril the world faces unless it acts with urgency to rescue a set of 2030 development goals to wipe out hunger and extreme poverty and to battle climate change. Their declaration, adopted by consensus at a summit before the annual UN […]
Sakawa boys: Meet Ghana’s online romance scammers
Poverty and unemployment are driving Ghana’s youth into the dark underbelly of identity theft and romance scams. BUKOLA ADEBAYO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
One-tenth of India’s population escaped poverty in five years – government report
New Delhi, IndiaReuters Nearly 135 million people, around 10 per cent of India’s population, escaped poverty in the five years to March, 2021, a government report found on Monday. Residents walk in an alley in Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums, in Mumbai, on 12th March, 2015. PICTURE: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui/File photo Rural areas saw the […]
Postcards: Syrians still endure poverty despite relative calm and renewed Arab ties
Reuters reports from Damascus…
UN agency calls for debt pause option as poverty rates rise
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A United Nations agency urged global finance ministers to give poor countries debt repayment breaks, estimating the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent surge in inflation and borrowing costs had pushed an extra 165 million people into poverty. The UN Development Programme said the jump meant more than 20 per cent of the world’s population – around […]
One in seven Britons faced hunger in 2022, says food bank charity
London, UKReuters One in seven people in the United Kingdom faced hunger last year because they did not have enough money, according to a report published on Wednesday by food bank charity the Trussell Trust. It said this equates to 11.3 million people, more than double the population of Scotland, and blamed a dysfunctional social […]
Paris finance summit breaks new ground in climate, poverty fight
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation A new patchwork of pledges from the world’s biggest development lenders, set to release hundreds of billions of dollars for poorer nations, has raised hopes the financial floodgates are finally starting to open in tackling climate change and poverty. Last week’s “Summit for a New Global Financing Pact” in Paris – […]
Essay: Poverty is a lethal epidemic. It’s time to address it
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev WILLIAM J BARBER II and Rev LIZ THEOHARIS, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, say politicians who fail to act on poverty in the US are complicit in the deaths of thousands…
Guatemala takes back 106 unaccompanied children and teen migrants
Guatemala City Reuters More than 100 children and teen migrants from Guatemala were flown home on Wednesday after being found in a truck trailer in Mexico headed to the US, one of the largest recent returns of unaccompanied minors back to the Central American country. The flight to Guatemala City brought back 106 youths ages […]
For some Gaza kids, a donkey cart is the only way to class
Khan Younis, Gaza StripReuters The crowded, potholed and often polluted streets of Gaza are tough – especially for children trying to get to school. For those who live too far away or who are too young to make the trip on foot, and too poor to afford a bus, Loay Abu Sahloul has a reliable […]