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In the beautiful mountainous region of East Sudan, the women communities have come out of their shell and exploring newer things in life. All the hard work of WFP-organized literacy programme has paid off finally.
With just the face uncovered, the...
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Before we can take cognisance of the situation in Zimbabwe, we have to be aware that it is much easier to criticise when we are on the outside looking in, than for...
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For the last twenty-nine years, Robert Gabriel Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe. That means that there are fully grown people in Zimbabwe who have known nothing more than...
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Indian tennis star Sania Mirza lives below the poverty line, if government records in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh are to believed.
A special ration card for...
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It was Brazil’s President Lulu da Silva who remarked that while it was the blue eyes and blond of the Western world, it was the brown people whom were paying the...
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This picture of two boys who are lifting brikes on their head. What is it showing to us the strength of both of them that they can lift heavy weight on their head or is...
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Every time I go out to the market place, I see small rag pickers, with their torn dresses, unwashed hair, a big dirty bag, shooing off the street dogs barking at them,...
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Filed under: News, Happy Hour Hero, Health, Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Poor children and teenagers have demonstrably worse...
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UPA government on Thursday adopted an ambitious target of making India
slum-free in five years with President Pratibha Patil
announcing the launch of a special housing...
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Mexico is planning ban on Street children. The modified article, if voted into law, would obligate authorities to send children under age 14 that they encounter on the...
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Children selling gum or washing windshields in the streets of Mexico are as ubiquitous as traffic lights.
But a new proposal here would forbid the presence of street...
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Women trafficking in Pakistan is the manifestation of poverty, agreed the speakers of the seminar Women Trafficking – causes, remedies, and the role of media, held in...
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The number of hungry people in southern Africa rose over the past year largely due to the crisis in Zimbabwe, despite a lower regional cereal deficit, the Southern...
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For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in...
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By: Rajbir Deswal
We met him in Mcleod Ganj. In the main market. Close to the Namgyal Monastery. By the side of momos vending stall. He was wearing branded ankle...
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Indian sub - continent has been my favorite from some time. Because, it has two third - world democracies and two third - world nuclear power as well. Especially since...
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When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that...
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Blame it on illiteracy or more correctly on poverty. The twelve year old rag picker in Jaipur whose only concern must have been to earn enough to satisfy her hunger on...
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Finally the day is over. Late into the night as I walk across the room towards my bed, my feet betray me. My intimidated brain revolts against itself. Somehow I manage...
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Very often the media will catch on to a story and through the act of hype transform the reality into a well-narrated fiction. Instead of being impartial observers who...
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The global economic crisis has stymied the international community’s effort to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and meet other goals to reduce hunger, fight disease...
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In Sudan illegal brewing of alcohol is in business. But what’s astonishing is that amongst illegal brewers majority is of women. It appears that the Muslim living...
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