DEVELOPMENT: A ‘Great Persuasion’ Gets Under Way
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Sanjay Suri
LONDON, Oct 15 (IPS) – They are calling it ‘The Great Persuasion’ in Britain as millions prepare around the world to stand up for action against poverty.
The persuasion will be targeted at 200 members of parliament. As part of the Global Call to [...]
ARGENTINA: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10 (IPS) – Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
”Kids Filming: We Are Not [...]
BOLIVIA: Amazon Nuts at Exploitative Prices
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Franz Chávez* – Tierramérica
LA PAZ, Oct 8 (IPS) – Bolivia is the world’s leading exporter of the shelled Brazil nut, a nutritious food source that grows abundantly in the country’s Amazon rainforest region. But in this tropical paradise, many of the nut-gatherers live in hellish [...]
G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still ”Out in the Cold”
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Eli Clifton
PITTSBURGH, Sep 25 (IPS) – World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with long-term growth as the goal.
In their end of meeting [...]
The Road Ahead: Unemployment, Poverty and the Recession
Fora.Tv Originally aired September 17, 2009 Lawrence Mishel, President of the Economic Policy Institute predicts that, because of the recession, “over a third of the people are going to be u…
DEVELOPMENT: Soaring Population May Swamp Anti-Poverty Goals
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By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) – The U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), already undermined by the global financial crisis, are expected to take another hit – this time from rising population growth.
The goal of halving the number of people living in extreme [...]
PARAGUAY: Indigenous Squatter Communities Organise Self-Help
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Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, Aug 2 (IPS) – Indigenous families living in a squatter settlement on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital are organising themselves, and now have a community soup kitchen and are producing and selling handicrafts. They don’t want to return to panhandling on the streets [...]
U.S.: Homeless ”Tent City” in Harlem Ends in Arrests
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Ben Case
NEW YORK, Aug 2 (IPS) – New York City police arrested 10 people who refused to leave a vacant lot in a demonstration for homeless people’s rights in East Harlem on Thursday. Early in the day, dozens of homeless people had occupied the lot, [...]
