by sjs | Nov 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In several recent speeches, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, talked about the need increase efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Read the story.
by sjs | Oct 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Council of Science Editors organized a “Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development” on October 22, 2007, with the aim of both encouraging reseach on poverty and human development and disseminating that research to the broadest possible...
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Previously famvin.org published a link to a participant’s overview of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society’s conference on poverty. Now a complete digest of the day includes summaries of the keynote address by John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., J.D., J.C.D....
by annaread | Oct 16, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Every year since 1993 the United Nations has called for observance of a day to focus, internationally, on ending poverty. October 17 is a good date to check the page on this topic at the UN’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library for its excellent resources on the...
by annaread | Oct 15, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“The Just and Moral Society: From Ideal to Reality” was the topic of Saturday’s conference on poverty presented by the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John’s University. Susan Stabile, law professor at University of St. Thomas...
