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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 the cause which the national hero of Scotland fought for is no different...
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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...
made popular Jul 3 2009
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...
made popular Jul 1 2009
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...
made popular Jun 25 2009
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...
made popular Jun 22 2009
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...
made popular Jun 15 2009
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,...
made popular Jun 15 2009
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...
made popular Jun 14 2009
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...
made popular Jun 5 2009
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...
made popular Jun 3 2009
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...
made popular Jun 2 2009
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...
made popular May 29 2009
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...
made popular May 22 2009
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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...
made popular May 11 2009
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...
made popular May 9 2009
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...
made popular May 7 2009
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...
made popular May 2 2009
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...
made popular Apr 30 2009
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...
made popular Apr 25 2009
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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...
made popular Apr 24 2009
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Being Third World isn’t all too pathetic. People in these deepest darkest corners of the globe are used to hardship that this global financial crisis does not cause a...
made popular Dec 20 2008
At last, policy makers are awakened into the reality that currently bites the Philippines. Economic planners are trimming growth targets. It isn’t these targets,...
made popular Jun 2 2008
The UK Independent characteristically highlights the changing status of Asia and Africa in world diplomacy, nonetheless pointing out the Eurocentric nature of...
made popular Mar 6 2008
About two million babies don’t see the second day and four million don’t see another month in the developing countries. The ’save the children’...
made popular May 10 2006
The main objective of the child activist and advocates is to protect the right and welfare of the children. They stand as the ‘pressure group’ working for...
made popular Dec 10 2005
In the final days of the climate conference, the Canadian bid to draw Washington into future global talks on climate change went unsuccessful. The United States on...
made popular Dec 9 2005
Large population of Asia is the biggest reason behind the large number of orphans. In 2001, an estimated 65 million children were declared as orphans, of which 2...
made popular Nov 19 2005
Recent studies conducted by the UNICEF highlighted that due to the absence of medical care facility, around 30 to 50 percent children in the rural Africa dies before...
made popular Nov 12 2005
According to the report of World Health Organization (WHO) infectious diseases have become the world’s largest killer of children and young adults. Around there...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Craig Kielburger through his book Free the Children has made a call to end abusive child labor. Furthermore, he has given voice to the weakest and the most vulnerable...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Mohammadu Nakilou, a Nigerian boy, is on a respirator because of a lung infection. Doctors find his condition critical and admitted that there are little chance of his...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Children’s working in mines and quarries is one of the worst forms of child labor. They work in the environment which is contaminated with heavy metals. Children...
made popular Nov 11 2005
Luxurious plazas in the central Jakarta are the evidence of the export- led development. But this is not all about Jakarta. There is much more to know about it. Behind...
made popular Nov 10 2005
Deprived of their childhood, children in dozens of the countries are participating in wars. Around 300,000 children are serving as soldiers in the battlefield. These...
made popular Nov 10 2005
The UN’s millennium ambitious goal to eradicate extreme poverty, disease and inequality by 2015 was a real ray of hope for the unwanted children of the Third...
made popular Nov 6 2005
The Third World children suffering from HIV/AIDS are the most vulnerable section of the society. And this probably appears to be understood by the International...
made popular Nov 4 2005
National Bureau of Investigation Intelligence Division has revealed that trafficking of Third World children is on an increase, particularly from Philippines.
If these...
made popular Oct 27 2005
Samaritan Purse, a Christian organization has planned to distribute gifts in Christmas among the children of the Third World. The organization will distribute...
made popular Oct 27 2005
Pakistan is a conservative country. People are not even ready to talk about HIV/AIDS here. That being the reason, many false notions attached to it, have come to stay,...
made popular Oct 26 2005
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