Tag: poverty
member name: OneWorld United States
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September 09, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
September 3, 2008
Nicholas Benequista , OneWorld US
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 3 (OneWorld) - The most pressing food crisis in the world at present is in Ethiopia, according to John Holmes, the . . .
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October 29, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
October 28, 2008
Jeffrey Allen and Brittany Schell , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (OneWorld) - From New York to England to Southeast Asia, higher food prices are forcing people to . . .
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October 15, 2008 12:14 AM EDT --
October 14, 2008
Daniel Nelson , OneWorld UK
LONDON, Oct 10 (OneWorld) - Failure to factor climate change into the Millennium Development Goals was a major mistake, Lord Nicholas Stern . . .
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October 15, 2008 12:24 AM EDT --
October 14, 2008
Haider Rizvi , OneWorld US
NEW YORK, Oct 14 (OneWorld) - Despite significant progress in global efforts to reduce poverty, hundreds of millions of people across the . . .
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September 03, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
NEW YORK, Aug 31 (OneWorld) - It is one of the most affluent countries in the world, but sill millions of people in the United States find it very difficult to put a nice meal on their dinner table. . . .
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September 23, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
September 19, 2008
Alison Raphael , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (OneWorld) - Nations worldwide are falling short of the hunger and poverty targets adopted at the start of the millennium, . . .
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October 06, 2008 10:17 PM EDT --
September 30, 2008
Fahima Haque and Jeffrey Allen , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (OneWorld) - Several advocacy and humanitarian organizations are asking Americans to participate in . . .
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October 15, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
October 8, 2008
Ida Wahlstrom , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (OneWorld) - The global financial, food, and fuel crises and the negative impacts of climate change pose a severe threat . . .
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October 22, 2008 02:25 PM EDT --
October 16, 2008
Jeffrey Allen , OneWorld US
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 16 (OneWorld) - Concerns are growing that many low- and middle-income families in the United States and around the world . . .
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November 21, 2008 02:27 PM EST --
November 21, 2008
Brittany Schell , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (OneWorld) - Women are being disproportionately affected by the U.S. mortgage crisis and economic plunge, . . .
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November 28, 2008 06:57 PM EST --
NEW YORK, Nov 25 (OneWorld) - A peaceful protest against the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was broken up by riot police last week, but human rights groups and indigenous communities are vowing to . . .
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September 02, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
August 28, 2008
Haider Rizvi , OneWorld US
NEW YORK, Aug 27 (OneWorld) - A new study released by the World Bank this week has raised concerns among humanitarian workers worldwide as more . . .
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October 28, 2008 12:26 PM EDT --
October 23, 2008
Haider Rizvi , OneWorld US
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (OneWorld) - The worldwide anti-poverty mass action that took place last weekend has broken all previous records for . . .
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January 28, 2009 07:33 PM EST --
Social entrepreneur Martin Fisher was named the Person of 2008 by OneWorld readers across the planet. In this spirited and insightful dialogue, Fisher challenges long-held orthodoxies on how best to help . . .
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May 22, 2008 04:28 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Wed., May. 21, 2008
NEW YORK, May 21 (OneWorld) - Former presidential hopeful John Edwards has helped launch a campaign aiming to cut poverty in half in . . .
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February 11, 2009 09:22 PM EST --
Over $100 billion crosses the planet each year in efforts to improve life for the world's poorest, yet poverty remains a serious concern year after year, decade after decade.
OneWorld's latest . . .
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June 22, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
When European leaders gather in Belgium this week, they might not be so pleased to see thousands of those who protested during the G8 Summit in Germany chasing them too on the streets of Brussels and asking . . .
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November 16, 2006 02:24 PM EST --
A leading anti-poverty organization is urging U.S. President George W. Bush to skip a meal today as a symbol of his resolve to fight hunger worldwide.
"The holiday season is traditionally a time . . .
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October 19, 2007 11:42 AM EDT --
Every year since world leaders signed the Millennium Declaration committing to meet eight world-changing goals by 2015, mass rallies have been held around the globe to remind governments of their commitments . . .
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July 12, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Government leaders across the world are being shamed for failing to keep their words on eliminating extreme poverty.
Philippine urban poor demonstrating on 7/7/07. © Global Call to Action . . .
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