ANALYSIS – UN Sustainable Development Goals and our response
Only this way can the goals of eliminating poverty, hunger and inequality and of providing education and healthcare services to all be achieved” …
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How The Covid Has Triggered Poverty
“We are seeing only the beginning of the tsunami,” warns Olivier de Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.
‘On poverty alleviation, China is on the right track’
"China has removed all poor counties from the poverty list, and eradicated absolute poverty and regional poverty," declared President Xi Jinping. "Nearly …
Pakistani premier proposes economic recovery plan at UN
Outlining 10-point strategy at UN General Assembly, Khan says some 100M people could fall into extreme poverty due to virus. News Service 04 …
Virus fuels poverty in least developed countries: UN
Up to 32 million people in these countries could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 due to falling income levels, widespread employment losses, …
Poverty rates in Iraq, Iran rise amid COVID-19
Poverty in Iraq, which had amounted to 20% in 2018, or nearly 10 million people, has risen to 31.7% following the COVID-19 outbreak, Serife Akinci, an …
Occupation of Gaza cost $16.7B over 11 years: UN
The poverty gap could have been 4.2%, one-fifth of the current 20%. Since the Palestinian resistance group Hamas took control of Gaza in June 2007, 2 …
Putin calls unemployment, poverty biggest global risks
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called poverty and mass unemployment triggered by the pandemic the biggest global risks. Speaking at …
Putin warns of economic effects of coronavirus pandemic
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that millions of people may drop into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic. "Alarming trends are …
In Zimbabwe, teachers’ suicides ‘on the rise’
Several teachers have committed suicide because of poverty, several families are breaking up or separating because of poverty," the New Zimbabwe …
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