by Beth | Jan 15, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Chemicals which had been sitting on a shelf at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) for more than 80 years could hold the key to finding a cure for the killer disease malaria. In 2001 scientists at the NIMR in The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, stumbled across the...
by Beth | Jan 14, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Online Volunteering and its very real impact on developing countries… and on volunteers themselves . The UN Volunteers program (www.unvolunteers.org) featured two new articles about online volunteering in international settings in the December 2003 issue of UNV...
by Beth | Jan 11, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Tim Williams, CM alerts us to ….MELBOURNE, “We must begin to understand poverty as a multi-dimensional concept that goes beyond just material deprivation. “MELBOURNE, January 9, 2004 (theage.com.au): Patrick McClure, chief executive of Mission...
by Beth | Jan 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“The needs of migrants and refugees throughout the world are great and growing. The 2003 World Refugee Report documented over 13 million refugees throughout the world, most surviving in desperate circumstances. Sadly, many fail to survive at all. Yet in the face...
by Beth | Jan 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Does anyone know where to find this text?…. Oct. 24, 1996 (CWNews.com) VATICAN (CWN) — The Pontifical Council Cor Unum today published a long-awaited Vatican document on world hunger. The document, entitled Hunger in the World: A Challenge for All, was...
by Beth | Dec 31, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
How do you celebrate Christmas when you are faced with abject poverty and widespread illness, crowned by the devastating toll of HIV/AIDS? Joe Komakoma writes in the National Cathnolic Reporter… LUSAKA, Zambia — For the millions of Zambians, there is very...
