Poverty
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Europe
Talking Europe – ‘We can’t leave people behind’: EU Cohesion Commissioner on levelling up
Issued on: 23/06/2023 – 15:38 Talking Europe devotes a special programme to levelling up – efforts to reduce inequalities and…
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Germany
Austria has a period poverty problem. Here’s why
Sanitary products are too expensive for many women while sexual education is also too outdated, NGOs say. “I’m menstruating 12…
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News
Once wrongly imprisoned for notorious rape, member of ‘Central Park Five’ is running for office
NEW YORK — Outside a Harlem subway station, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for New York City Council, hurriedly greeted voters…
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Europe
Europe now – Fighting poverty across the EU – one of the bloc’s top priorities (part 2)
Issued on: 02/06/2023 – 12:37Modified: 02/06/2023 – 12:40 How does the European Union use cohesion funds to reduce poverty and…
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Europe
Europe now – Fighting poverty across the EU – one of the bloc’s top priorities (part 1)
Issued on: 02/06/2023 – 12:38Modified: 02/06/2023 – 12:40 Bulgaria is one of the most recent members of the European Union,…
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Europe
Focus – Madrid’s shantytown: Life without power in Canada Real
/ Shows / Focus Issued on: 15/05/2023 – 09:04 05:21 FOCUS © FRANCE24 It is one of Europe’s largest shantytowns.…
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Asia
Commentary: Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality
CAMBRIDGE: Record-breaking heatwaves in April 2022 put 90 per cent of people in India at increased risk of going hungry,…
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United Kingdom
‘Crisis’ as one homeless person dies every 6.5 hours in UK
More than 4000 people have died while homeless in the last four years in the UK, according to new figures,…
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News
Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas
MATAMOROS, Mexico — About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border…
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Middle East
Protesters in Beirut smash banks as Lebanese pound spirals
BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters in Lebanon Thursday smashed windows and set tires on fire outside two of the country’s…
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