Many Americans are struggling financially but don't qualify for aid because they technically make above the poverty line.
Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change ...
Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...
The right to property, as enshrined in international human rights law, must be balanced with the need for restorative justice ...
Alkire, the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), wears her religious beliefs lightly. In her small, functional office in Oxford University’s plant sciences ...
He added, “These are entirely human-made problems ... use a different metric than the federal government to measure poverty, taking into account income, noncash support like tax credits ...
More people than ever are forcibly displaced, face discrimination and unequal access to goods and services, and suffer from the consequences of poverty and war. Human rights violations are widespread ...
Economic Report on Africa. The Challenge of Poverty Reduction and Sustainability. Addis Ababa E/ECA/CM 24/3/99. Etuk ,U and Okwudishu, I.(1998). Ethical condition of human development in 21st Century ...
The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how individual circumstances (i.e., characteristics -- such as place of residence, gender, and education of the household head -- that should not determine ...
The United Nations has urged the Labour government to scrap the DWP two-child limit and raise benefits in warning over ...