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Vatican Attacks US Nuns For Fighting Poverty Instead Of Gay ...

The Vatican this week attacked America’s nuns for spending too much time working to help the poor and fight poverty, and not spending enough time attacking same-sex marriage. The criticism, considered formal disciplinary action agai [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting Poverty and Unemployment in Sindh

Poverty and unemployment in resource-rich Sindh are, among others, key causes of rising crimes and bad law and order situation. Energy crisis like in other parts of the country has battered severely economic development in the province an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty with the art of beauty

A young girl named Heman, daughter of the late Ratan Kumar, has been training to become a beautician for the last one month, and now feels that she has learnt enough to start practicing. All the members of the family — her six siste [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty

Since it was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1993, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year on Oct 17. It is intended to promote awareness of the need to eradicate the poverty caused by [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Debt Cancellation - The Wrong Signal For Fighting Poverty

Defining poverty varies and depends from one place to another, from one time to another and from one year to another, from household to another... A poor person in my village, Kpala, owns land, has shelter, eats fresh food but do [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Fighting Poverty Can Save Energy, Nicaragua Project Shows

In two small villages on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast, a project to improve electricity service had a remarkable side benefit—household energy use actually dropped nearly 30 percent. When efficient compact-fluorescent (CFL) lig [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Fighting Rural Poverty Through Fair Trade

The increase in food prices coupled with the financial crisis has reversed the achievements of poverty alleviation programs in many developing countries in Africa and Asia. As a result of the food price hike and the financial crisis [...]

Posted On : Jan, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Fighting Poverty and Climate Change Together

The final report by the Swedish Commission for Climate Change and Development calls for the fight against poverty and the fight against climate change to be addressed together. The Commission was set in 2007 to look at the human dimensions [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Fighting Poverty with Acumen

Jacqueline Novogratz was out for her customary morning jog on the streets of Kigali, Rwanda, when she noticed a young boy wearing a blue wool sweater decorated with zebras and mountains. This was 1987, and Novogratz was an idealistic 25-yea [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Fighting poverty ensures peace

SUBIC BAY FREE PORT—President Arroyo on Thursday underscored the importance of the government’s poverty-alleviation program, saying that strengthening the economy and bringing about human dignity to every Filipino brings about p [...]

Posted On : Nov, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Bill Gates on Fighting Poverty

In Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks described a society in which the boundaries that once separated establishment from counter culture have disappeared. “The members of the new information age elite are bourgeois bohemians,” Broo [...]