The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, ...

As world leaders come to Brazil for climate talks, people like Cassiano are the ones with the most at stake. Poor communities ...

The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into ...

UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged the international community to increase its efforts in combating poverty and ...

UN chief tells Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar that 700 million people live in extreme poverty.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani patronised the opening of the Second World Summit for Social ...

Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential ...

NEARLY eight in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—or 887 million of the 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air ...

Nolvia M. is a pulperia and carniceria owner in Honduras. To grow her business, she joined a microfinance program with a grant partner of San Diego-Based Women’s Empowerment International. Photo ...

A report issued during a United Nations event for World Day of the Poor shows that efforts to alleviate global poverty have slowed. The annual Pope Francis Global Poverty Report released by Jesuit-run ...