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World News tagged with poverty

Protect Children From Crisis
World  (tags: children, government, health, education, families, poverty )

Kelli
- 4 days ago - straitstimes.com
UNITED NATIONS- UN OFFICIALS on Thursday urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending on health and education, warning it could drive millions of children and families into the poverty trap.
1 comment
Colombians Come to Venezuela in Droves
World  (tags: Venezuela, Colombia, capitalism, fascism, war, civil war, refugees, migration, immigration, oppression, exploitation, poverty, revolution, socialism, democracy, HumanRights, humanrights, leftwing, left, leftist, progressive, egalitarian, equality )

Simon
- 10 days ago - venezuelanalysis.com
Some people imagine that "Venezuela is a dictatorship that people are fleeing". The reality is very different: a democracy, where the people have elected socialist governments in recent years, ensuring less poverty, more human rights, & more people coming
2 comments
It IS Possible to End Child Hunger - Why Are We Waiting to Act?
World  (tags: poverty, Hunger world wide, children, children's rights, death, conflict, world, ethics )

David
- 38 days ago - alertnet.org
Nearly 20 million children worldwide are at risk of dying. So why do children continue to die from hunger-related causes if we know how to save them? Only £4.5 - 9.1bn is needed to fix the problem, far less than was needed to save the rich world's banks.
44 comments
Sign Petition: Tell Congress to End Child Hunger
World  (tags: world, global, crisis, poor, children, families, food, security, act, starvation, disease, health, nutrition, illness, humans, death, society, malnutrition, poverty, sadness )

Tom
- 97 days ago - action.savethechildren.org
The global food crisis may be out of the headlines for the moment, but for poor children and families, the emergency remains urgent and real. Please co-sponsor the The Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2817).
30 comments
Capitalism? I Can't Drink to That
World  (tags: capitalism, unemployment, poverty )

Eleanor
- 135 days ago - sundayherald.com
IF THE board of Diageo knows much about Kilmarnock, Glasgow, or Leven, it would come as a surprise. Names and numbers on a spreadsheet reveal little. Real lives and real history have no existence on the bottom line. They bear no weight when your.....
24 comments
India, Enlightened
World  (tags: India, poverty, slums, environment, society, HumanRights )

LaJana
- 163 days ago - onearth.org
Raise a Billion People out of Poverty Without Destroying the Environment. Can It Be Done?
2 comments
Zimbabwe Girls Trade Sex for Food
World  (tags: government, Zimbabwe, HumanRights, children, poverty, politics, conflict, corruption )

Dee
- 164 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says.
5 comments
Sign Petition: Help Promote the Roadmap to End Global Hunger!
World  (tags: world, hunger, poverty, refugees, relief, food, human, rights, aid, africa, asia, europe, middle-east, UN, obama, government, politics )

Tom
- 165 days ago - change.org
Friends of the World Food Program (WFP) and its coalition partners developed the Roadmap to End Global Hunger that will guide Congress and the new administration in establishing a comprehensive strategy to address global hunger.
4 comments
Take a Stand Against Wrongful Eviction
World  (tags: world, poverty, poor, shelter, homeless, water, sanitation, disease, suffering, health, harassment, corruption, discrimination, women, children, human, rights, safety, prevention, culture, humans, government )

Tom
- 166 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
For the more than 1.6 billion people suffering from some sort of shelter deprivation in the world, that future is bleak. Without access to adequate shelter, clean water or sanitation, upwards of 10 million people die each year from preventable diseases.
10 comments
Ask Bob Geldof - Your Question About G8's Delivery on Their Promises to African Aid Answered.- Ask It Here + Video
World  (tags: poverty, politics, humanrights, freedoms, world, death, ethics )

David
- 175 days ago - one.org
Anti-poverty campaigner and ONE supporter Bob Geldof wants to answer your questions. He has recorded a short video to explain. So go ahead and check out the video and send us your question...
10 comments
Sign Petition: Tell Congress the World's Poorest Need Clean Water
World  (tags: world, humanitarian, relief, human, rights, water, humans, safety, risks, health, children, disease, illness, pollution, environment, culture, society, government, family, poverty, poor, cholera, typhoid, malaria )

Tom
- 177 days ago - humanitarianrelief.change.org
One in five people worldwide go without access to safe and reliable water sources every day. Double that number go without basic sanitation services, such as latrines or even a place to wash their hands, contaminating water supplies.
26 comments
Sign Petition: Marginalized People in Sri Lanka - Help Protect Their Human Rights
World  (tags: world, humanitarian, aid, human rights, women, children, sri lanka, water, humans, safety, risks, health, children, disease, illness, pollution, environment, culture, society, government, family, poverty, poor, cholera, typhoid, malaria )

Tom
- 177 days ago - change.org
The people of Sri Lanka have suffered immeasurable, untold violations of their fundamental human rights. The worst of these abuses are horrific acts of torture and the systematic abuse of women and children. Much work needs to done to get justice.
21 comments
Sign Petition: Would You Want to Lose Your Mom to a Disease That Could Be Prevented With a Vaccine?
World  (tags: world, africa, asia, medicine, treatment, prevention, rights, women, poverty, death, disease, immunize, health, cervical, cancer, vaccine )

Tom
- 185 days ago - change.org
500,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year. More than half of them will die because they are poor and their cancer will not be diagnosed until it is too late to treat. Most will live in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
28 comments
Sign Petition: End Child Trafficking, Exploitation in Haiti
World  (tags: world, haiti, children, victims, prostitutes, sexual, abuse, violence, child, slavery, poverty, hunger, crime, freedoms, family, culture, society, rights, safety, sadness, abuse )

Tom
- 193 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
With 80 percent of Haitians living in poverty -- and half of them on less than a dollar a day -- a huge number of children are forced to work against their will in homes, fields, gangs and as prostitutes. As many as 200,000 children are victims.
18 comments
Extreme Poverty and Hunger   video
World  (tags: africa, asia, children, death, india, world, Hunger, Poverty )

Brandy
- 214 days ago - youtube.com
A short video outlining extreme poverty and hunger, and it being one of the United Nation's Millennium Goals
11 comments
 
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