World leaders will descend on the United Nation's New York HQ from Sunday for the organization's annual signature gathering ...

U.N. human rights experts criticised mostly Western states on Monday for continuing to support Israel despite what they ...

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation’s official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million ...

President Joe Biden promised to usher in a different trade era, pledging a return to multilateralism. Yet the Biden administration maintained almost all of Trump’s tariffs, added new ones, and ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' warning that failing to support Ukraine could leave Poland and other countries open to ...

Here is a world, the viewer might think, totally inhospitable to life. Tom Fletcher became the unwitting face of LBJ’s War on Poverty. He didn’t escape poverty; neither did his descendants. Many of ...

South Africa adopted an anti-poverty strategy in 2008 with a national war on poverty campaign launched the same year. South Africa committed to both the MDGs and SDGs and the National Development ...

This report concentrates on the 1.9m pensioners who the DWP’s figures show are living below 60% of the national average income, which is widely used as the poverty line. LCP found that only 300,000 of ...

For much of the past 11 months—during which Israel has waged a brutal war of retaliation against Hamas that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and made much of the coastal enclave ...

Poverty is complex, and building a sustainable ... and delusions that make any responsible solution to the war in Gaza virtually impossible to imagine. Back to top ...

The war has also created a shortage of doctors ... For those trapped in a never-ending cycle of poverty, selling a body part often appears as a quick way to escape. It’s been a last resort ...