Full Coverage: Poverty

30.06.2007 Youth Action Nepal is organising a rally and a concert at New Baneshwar in Nepal on July 2, 2007 for making governments accountable to people and achieving the MDGs.

29.06.2007 A UN Population Fund (UNFPA) report indicates that more than half the global population, projected at 3.3 billion, will be living in towns and cities by 2008. In Asia the urban population will increase from 1.36 billion to 2.64 billion while Africa's urban population will go up from 294 million to 742 million, and that of Latin America and the Caribbean from 394 million to 609 million.

29.06.2007 The mid-point to the 2015 deadline, 07.07.07, for meeting the Millennium Development Goals is just around the corner. NGOs worldwide are gearing up to press governments for faster action. In India, the UN Millennium Campaign and other civil society organizations are pushing the ruling UPA government to meet the MDG targets.

28.06.2007 The Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has provided recommendations to the Bangladesh government to make the budget of the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) more pro-poor.

27.06.2007 Though Asia has achieved economic growth along with poverty reduction in recent years economic growth alone does not guarantee poverty reduction. But this growth – and its impact on different aspects of development – has been uneven across and within countries.

27.06.2007 Kesepakatan perdagangan bebas antara AS-Indonesia dapat mengulang pengalaman buruk Meksiko. Studi Bank Dunia tentang Kesepakatan Perdagangan Bebas Amerika Utara (NAFTA) menunjukkan bahwa setelah 10 tahun kondisi Meksiko justru bertambah buruk.

26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1 million children in West Africa would not go to bed hungry if Washington stopped providing subsidies to America's cotton growers, according to a study released Thursday by an influential development organization.

26.06.2007 More than 800 peasants over Central Java which involved as Central Java Peasants Union (SP-Jateng) came to central java people assembly building. They came to ask governments to immediately solve agrarian conflict.

26.06.2007 Sekitar 10.000 petani se-Jawa Barat tumpah ruah memenuhi lapangan Gasibu, Bandung (19/6). Para petani dari Serikat Petani Pasundan (SPP) menuntut pemerintah daerah Jawa Barat untuk segera membagikan tanah-tanah objek landreform kepada petani.

26.06.2007 "Caste-Based Reservations and Human Development in India" by K.S. Chalam analyses one of the most contentious issues of our times – caste-based reservations, one which has seen tragic, needless deaths and riots and has torn the country apart into protagonists and antagonists.

25.06.2007 Communities as diverse as manual scavengers, people with disabilities, Gujarat riot survivors, indigenous groups, HIV positive people, children out of school and sex workers from across India assembled to discuss a range of human rights issues at the National Conclave – Towards A people's Alliance organised by ActionAid India.

15.06.2007 The UN is rushing aid to victims of landslides that were triggered by heavy rains in the Chittagong district in east Bangladesh. A government report indicates that large numbers of people have been buried and the figures are expected to rise as rescue workers continue with operations.

14.06.2007 Villagers in the north Indian state of Bihar are now members of the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGA) thanks to a Korean biometric device. These smart cards will also double as ATM/debit cards and help track the NREG programme.

11.06.2007 The Indian government plans to issue biometric identification cards to slum dwellers for the authenticity of their identity which, it is believed, will help them in getting low cost houses from the government.

06.06.2007 Even as the world's richest eight countries meet at Heiligendamm in Germany for the 33rd G8 meet, civil society organisations from across the world have gathered to lobby with the leaders to do more to eradicate poverty. Oxfam International and the United Nations Millennium Campaign have both launched blogs that bring interesting news, insights and opinions from a NGO perspective.

05.06.2007 Maailman elintarvikeohjelman (WFP) ja Latinalaisen Amerikan ja Karibian talouskomission (ECLAC) tuoreen tutkimuksen mukaan lasten aliravitsemuksen kokonaiskustannukset nousivat alueella 6,7 miljardiin dollariin vuonna 2004. Summa vastaa 6,4 prosenttia alueen silloisesta bruttokansatuotteesta.

03.06.2007 Can reaching the Millennium Development Goals give an improved life to the Dalits in India? Yes, was the overwhelming response at a recent panel discussion held at New Delhi by the National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), a union of more than 300 grassroots Dalit organisations spread over India.

01.06.2007 Young participants from the world are gathering for the Junior 8 Summit, an international youth conference in Wismar, Germany, that parallels the G8 Summit in June in Heiligendamm, Germany. The conference of seventy-four young people – eight from each of the G8 countries and ten from developing nations will focus on economic, health and other development issues.

01.06.2007 Oxfam charges G8 nations of falling far behind on pledges of aid to Africa in 2005, and puts pressure on them to live up to their commitments in the next upcoming summit from 6-8 June in Heiligendamm, Germany.