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
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 6, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 5 – About a sixth of the world’s population – nearly 1 billion people – live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don’t reverse course and start giving the issue serious attention,...
by Beth | Oct 5, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
CANBERRA, Octer 5, 2003 (aapmedianet.com.au): Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Francis Carroll has joined with other heads of churches and leaders of the Jewish and Islamic faiths in sending a letter to Prime Minister John Howard, urging...