by Beth | Dec 18, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
First-in-the-Nation Guidebook Provides Steps to Keep Homeless Women Safe According to Boston�s most recent homeless census, the number of homeless women living on the streets is growing faster than that of all other groups. Violence from their partners and others,...
by Beth | Dec 15, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
One Laptop Per Child said trials of the notebook are planned for China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand, with 1 million notebooks to be shipped to each of these countries.This was just posted to Yahoo’s homepage…. -andy MIT Picks...
by Beth | Dec 4, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
World AIDS Day 2005 was commemorated on the St. John’s University Queens campus at a December 1 symposium where the origins, effects and impact of HIV/AIDS were chronicled by two members of the St. John’s community who have witnessed the disease “up close and...
by Beth | Dec 4, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a Nov. 2005 statement on the upcoming WTO ministerial in Hong Kong December 13-18, 2005, the Vatican wrote, “trade rules should be aligned with a wider commitment to human development and to the lifting of living standards of the poor.” The statement went on to...
by Beth | Nov 29, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Award honours importance of a particular program that is the first of its kind in Australia to offer University courses for homeless people… enriching the lives of homeless people in a way that breaks the cycles of poverty and disadvantage and has the potential...
by Beth | Nov 28, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
GENOA, Italy, NOV. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Loans by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as country-to-country loans, are usurious and should be declared illegal, says the archbishop of Genoa. Cardinal Tarsicio Bertone voiced this criticism when...
