by Beth | Oct 29, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“International debt is like a disease: If it is not completely cured, it will reappear.” That was the message of the Vatican’s UN representative to a special committee on Third World debt. NEW YORK, OCT. 27, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See...
by Beth | Oct 27, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
17th October 2003 – The September 2003 edition of JUST.NOW (newsletter of Vincentian Partnership for Justice) looks at the reality of poverty and its impact on the key areas of life in our society. For the good news and the bad news read on…Poverty the...
by Beth | Oct 23, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant. Heifer International provides a contemporary way of living out Vincent’s approach of giving a “hand-up” rather than a...
by Beth | Oct 23, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
British government aid programmes aimed at some of the poorest people in the world are to be emasculated to allow ministers to commit £540m in aid to help rebuild Iraq, The Independent has discovered. So writes Leonard Doyle Foreign Editor 23 October 2003....
by Beth | Oct 17, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
AUSTRALIA, October 17, 2003 (theaustralian.news.com.au): Â Dennis Shanahan comments for The Australian on poverty as a national issue – “…..Too much of the fight for the poor has become empty rhetoric, envy and malice directed at the rich. Too much of...
by Beth | Oct 16, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
CANBERRA, October 15, 2003 (cathnews.com): The National Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia issued a media release on Wednesday calling on the Government to consider Poverty alleviation as a Bipartisan (all Parties) National Issue and asking for a...
