The World Bank last week said about 61 per cent of Nigeria’s population — 139 million people — now live in poverty, rising from 40 per cent, or 81 million people, in 2019. In this interview with News ...

Vatican releases Pope Leo XIV's first major text criticizing the "bubble of luxury" wealthy people live in while poverty ...

UN marks Oct. 17 as International Day for Eradication of Poverty, spotlighting crisis deepened by pandemic and global ...

This 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, for the first time, overlays data on climate hazards and ...

Though Canada, on paper, is committed to an adequate standard of living, it needs social and economic laws to become more ...

In a move that will almost certainly rock an already precarious Government of National Unity, the DA has unveiled an ...

High heat and air pollution are the most widespread hazards, affecting 608 million and 577 million poor people respectively, ...

Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by ...

Dr Eunan O'Neill, director of public health for Cornwall, said child poverty affected "every aspect of a child's life", and ...

Dara Calleary said child poverty and impoverishment among disabled people were the key issues Taoiseach Micheál Martin had ...

Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare has called for partnerships to empower people with albinism ...

8.7 million adults miss work and 1 in 10 children skip school because of hygiene poverty, according to research from the ...