Browsing issue: Poverty

See also: Sustainable development

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Shoes Blues (2 minutes)

Residents of adult homes on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) keep a monthly allowance of $168.00 after paying rent to their adult home....

United States

Mental disability rights, Older persons, Poverty

Witnessed: 125 times

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Witnessed: 193 times

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Bolivia's Coca Culture

The coca plant, used in indigenous cultural rituals and traditional medicines, is also the main ingredient for cocaine....

Bolivia

Drugs & human rights, Indigenous peoples, Poverty

Witnessed: 338 times

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Cholera plagues Afghanistan

As if living in a country at war was not bad enough, the people of Afghanistan are battling a new outbreak of cholera.

Afghanistan

Food & health & development, Humanitarian, Poverty

Witnessed: 223 times

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Heidi Holland: Dinner with Mugabe

At a time when the world waits anxiously to see what will happen next in Zimbabwe, Heidi Holland talks about her book which gets to grips with the man at the helm of a corrupt regime; the man behind t...

Zimbabwe

Corruption, Poverty, Torture/ill treatment

Witnessed: 163 times

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Taming the Perfect Storm - Pete White on Health and Homelessness in Los Angeles (Part 1)

Pete White of the Los Angeles Community Action Network speaks at the report launch of "Taming the Perfect Storm: Addressing the Impact of Public Health, Housing, and Law Enforcement Policies on Homel...

United States

Health, Housing, Poverty

Witnessed: 172 times

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Solomon Islanders lose out to logging

The logging industry is the number one export earner for the Solomon Islands. But the country is cutting down trees at four times the sustainable rate....

Solomon Islands

Corporations and human rights, Environment, Poverty

Witnessed: 267 times

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Food prices still relevant on World Food Day

Developing countries are still hit hard by food costs.

As World Food Day is marked, human rights groups claim the current agricultural system needs to be reconsidered if the hungry are to be fed.

Food & health & development, Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 278 times

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Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-d...

Haiti

Child labor, Poverty, Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 282 times

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