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Support Senator Kirsten Gillibrand!
“In this tough economy, a family losing this access to food assistance would be devastating. More than half of food stamp recipients are children, eight percent are seniors and...
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Latest OECD figures on rising inequality
Use this interactive chart to see how your country fares against the OECD averages for the Gini coefficient (the lower the better) and relative poverty. However, interpret the results with caution –...
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Eradicate extreme poverty by 2030?
On 30 May 2013, the Secretary-General received a landmark report from the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, a 27-member group of eminent persons established a year earlier to...
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Extreme Poverty and Human Rights – A new tool
There is a new tool — the United Nations Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty And Human Rights — that sets out clearly the implications of existing international law in relation to the human rights of...
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Shocking figures on child hunger in the US
The study Map the Meal Gap from the anti-hunger charity Feeding America that traces food security down to the county level shows that over one in five American children lack steady access to sufficient...
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Riot police and tear gas are not the answer!
As I watch events in Turkey unfold in real time on CNN, I am filled with horror and utter disgust at the Turkish Government’s brutal and senseless response to the demonstrators at Taksim Square in...
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Draft Outcome Document – MDG Summit 2013
Ahead of the Special Event on the Millennium Development Goals to be held at the United Nations in New York on 25 September 2013, member states have been undertaking consultations on the draft outcome...
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Watch Malala at the United Nations!
Today, Malala Yousafzai will mark her 16th birthday by coming to the UN to give her first high-level public appearance and statement on the importance of education. Malala Yousufza will present the...
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Pollution kills millions each year
Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than two-and-a-half million deaths each year, says a study in the Environmental Research Letters journal. It concludes that “Epidemiological...
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This is how democracy can flourish!
Reposted from Free Arabs website. His name is Ali Ahmed, age 12 and a half. He was interviewed in October 2012 by Egyptian newspaper El Wady, after huge demonstrations against then-president Mohammed...
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