The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

During the argument in Supreme Court, lawyer says reservation cannot be implemented as poverty alleviation programme

City treasurer says council's ability is limited by power and lack of money

Fuel poverty kills thousands of people in the UK each winter. It means being unable to afford to heat a home to a safe and comfortable level, typically when 10% or more of household net income is spent on fuel. It damages our health, wellbeing and educational attainment and makes…

V. Rathinasabapathy, President of SFRBC, told the presspersons that the Supreme Court in its earlier Orders has said that reservation cannot be interpreted as a poverty alleviation measure.

Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.

The number of people forced into modern forms of slavery has risen by a fifth in recent years to around 50 million on any given day amid a surge in poverty and other crises, the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday.

We despair that the poverty we have already lived in and a poverty mentality will scar our child

GLASGOW will demand the UK Government steps up its support for citizens struggling with the cost of living as it was revealed 5000 more children are…

Climate activists, anti-poverty groups and trade unionists plan wave of protests in autumn

Industry insiders say six decades of oil exploration have made the Niger Delta one of the most polluted places on earth.

There was cross-party support for a motion from Glasgow Labour leader George Redmond which labelled the current support package 'insufficient' and called for urgent action.