Almost one in three children are both poor and socially deprived in Armenia, the United Nations' children agency said in a report Monday, September 26. For children, besides its monetary character, poverty
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World leaders need to ramp up investment to achieve a set of global goals agreed a year ago to combat poverty, inequality, and make the world a safer place by 2030,
Flash floods have destroyed crops in Somalia leaving nearly half the population short of food Nearly five million people in Somalia are suffering from a shortage of food due to poor rainfall, floods and
About one quarter of babies worldwide still delivered in the absence of skilled birth attendant’ The latest Lancet series on maternal health reveals that nearly one quarter of babies worldwide are still
First, our healthy eating message was framed as an exposition of manipulative food industry marketing practices that influence and deceive adolescents and others into eating larger quantities of unhealthy
Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $7 billion or nearly 3 per cent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is on the rise among children,
<p>Men are more than twice as likely to be in formal full-time employment as women in 17 countries with poor records on gender equality. New analysis of Gallup World Poll data reveals that in 17 countries
Women and children in India’s flood-hit eastern region are at risk of being preyed upon by human traffickers and sold into slavery in middle class homes, restaurants and shops, and even brothels, aid workers
Jaipur: Around 37% babies born in the state are underweight and at the risk of developing hypothermia and septicaemia, major causes of high infant mortality rate (IMR) in the state. The health department
Research predicts African children will account for 43% of global poverty by 2030, although absolute number of poor will fall African children will make up nearly half the world’s poorest people by
