Issues
Extreme Poverty
The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on US $1 or less per day, and estimates that 1.1 billion people currently live under these conditions,having minimal or very limited access to basic necessities, such as food, clothing, shelter, education and health care. Read more...
The Millennium Development Goals
The new millennium opened on a hopeful note. With majority of the world’s economies thriving, including India, China, (and even many African nations with its unrelieved crisis) the spread of democracy and possibility of mobilizing new technologies to fight AIDS Read more...
HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS represent the single greatest humanitarian crisis in modern history. Since the beginning of the epidemic nearly 20 million people have died from the disease. By the end of 2003 over 40 million people were living with HIV/AIDS around the world, including 5 Read more...
Food
There has never been so much food on our planet. In purely quantitative terms, there is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 6.4 billion people. And yet, one in nearly seven people is going hungry. One in three children are underweight. Why does Read more...
Water
Water is the basis of all life on our planet. Humans cannot exist without water and the sustainable management of water is seen by many as a crucial step towards fighting poverty. Our lives are closely linked to our access to water and its many uses. Imagine yourself Read more...
Education
Whether from the glamour of Beverley Hills & Notting Hill or the slums Kibera & Dharavi, education is a basic human right of every child. Every human being on this planet should have a chance to make a better life for themselves. Education is the best ways to Read more...
Orphans
Young children and orphans are often the ones most affected by extreme poverty. 18 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS alone, and this number is expected to rise drastically in the next few years. These orphans are usually immensely vulnerable, Read more...
Aid
The provision of Aid to developing countries is one of the most powerful tools that are at a developing country’s disposal in the battle against world poverty and in the fight to achieve the Millennium Development goals. It is unfortunate, however, that this tool Read more...
Trade
Millions of people around the world suffer due to trade injustice. Trade rules only make the rich richer, while the poor sink deeper and deeper into poverty. No matter how hard they work, they lose money to the world’s developed countries. The end result is that Read more...
Debt Cancellation
Many factors contribute to poverty in developing countries, such as economic history, political stability, poor government control and armed conflict. In half the world’s poorest countries, unreasonably high debt has also become a significant factor restraining Read more...
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