Tag Archives : Poverty

Ron Corben reports in VOANews.com from Bangkok that ‘residents of the Klong Toey slum near Bangkok’s port have come to the aid of the children of Haiti. Volunteers and children from the Duang Prateep Foundation, which works with the community, on Sunday walked through narrow lanes and alleys seeking donations.’ Klong Toey is one of the poorest [...]

South Africa is again in news because of controversy surrounding arrest of Sheryl Cwele, wife of Siyabonga Cwele who is South Africa’s intelligence and security minister. Sheryl Cwele is also director of health and community services at the Hibiscus Coast Municipality. She is said to be involved along with Tessa Beetge who was recently arrested in [...]

Xinran has written a moving story about female orphans in China. It is very shocking that as a result of China’s strict one-child policy, ancient gender biased traditional values and village land regulations female new born babies are either abandoned or killed in different villages in some provinces of China. Female orphans are a grim reality there [...]

Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

“The global economic crisis has devastated workers around the world, none more than migrants whose daily wages are dependent on the whims of global financiers. Witness Dubai. Even before the meltdown of Dubai World, migrants whose labor literally built Dubai from the ground up suffered serious job losses with the onset of the global recession in [...]

Three ads from the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and ACNUR send a message for and in behalf of the world’s refugees via visuals that are so heavily and beautifully photoshopped that one can no longer feel the ugliness of the raging social malaise upon which the public awareness campaign is based. The advertising campaign asks the question: Would [...]

The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on earth: North Korea is the nadir of freedom [...]

Two million people live in this sprawling spread of squalor where sub-human standards of living, alone are a definite equivalent of human rights violation. Amnesty International’s report entitled The Unseen Majority: Nairobi’s Two Million Slum Dwellers also outlines the gross human rights abuses, along with the sordid poverty, that exist [...]

Over the years, Goldman Sachs has declared that the emerging nations like Brazil, Russia, India and China. (BRIC) will be the economic powerhouses in future. Citigroup too has declared the increasing influence of China and India in the rest of the world with their increasing prosperity. However, this economic prosperity has not actually trickled down [...]

Taking advantage of Kenya’s poverty and lame law enforcement, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations has been the haven of Western pedophiles that target Kenyan children for sexual abuse and exploitation. A report from Channel 4 News shows footages of children, some as young as 12, in nightclubs in Mombasa. These children go to meet [...]