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COP27: Renewables seen as opportunities for economic development in Africa

In tonight's edition: As African countries at the COP27 climate summit say wealthy nations haven't done enough to stop them from having to develop their oil industries, we ask how renewable sources can be used to lift people out of poverty on the African continent. Also, thousands of public workers…

France 24

Hungry children miss out on free meals – and struggling schools cannot help

Families from ‘working poor’ omitted from scheme, and costs crisis leaves schools powerless to subsidise them

The Guardian - UK

African nations tell COP27 fossil fuels will tackle poverty

African nations must be allowed to develop fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty, governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous talks.

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British policies on migration, rights issues under fire at U.N. rights forum

The United Kingdom faced a barrage of questions and criticism of its migration and poverty policies in a United Nations review of its human rights record on Thursday amid allegations that it is backsliding on freedoms.

Reuters

‘Sadly, this is badly needed’: how Sunderland AFC are fighting poverty

Club’s former owner Sir Bob Murray explains how its charity is helping with food, clothing, education and more besides

The Guardian - UK

Angola urges UK to take new measures on poverty

Call over protecting most vulnerable citizens comes before UN review of Britain’s human rights record

The Guardian - UK

South Lanarkshire Council make progress in tackling poverty

The council and its partners have achieved success in reducing poverty.

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More NHS funding for North East's deprived areas vital to avoid 'twindemic'

The North East's high rates of chronic health problems and child poverty make us vulnerable to the impact of a 'twindemic', experts said.

Chronicle Live

Free school meals criteria ‘always under review’, minister says

Feed the Future: The Independent is calling on the scheme to include all children in poverty

The Independent UK

Investments of 125 billionaires have the same carbon footprint as France, study finds

Researchers at Oxfam, a nonprofit devoted to combating poverty, examined billionaires who collectively own $2.4 trillion in company equity, with investments across 183 companies.

WEKU

Tyneside social enterprise to tackle child poverty in employer support programme

Society Matters cic is leading workshops, strategy sessions and employee surveys

Birmingham Post

Tom Kerridge: ‘MPs get £17m for their food — how can there be nothing for 800,000 children?’

The acclaimed chef talks to David Ellis about the effect of food poverty on schoolchildren, and why the Feed the Future drive matters

Evening Standard

Zayn Malik urges Rishi Sunak to give free school meals to all children in poverty

Bradford-born singer who relied on free school lunches urges PM to extend provision to all families on universal credit

The Guardian - UK

Zayn Malik calls on Rishi Sunak to expand free school meals

Feed the Future: The former One Direction member relied on free school meals as a child

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Daily Mirror

Zayn Malik demands free school meals for 800,000 kids in powerful letter to Rishi Sunak

The singer, who relied on free dinners growing up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, issued a plea to the Prime Minister to widen free school meals eligibility in next week's Autumn Statement

Manchester Evening News

Manchester’s best South East Asian restaurants assemble to help those in food poverty

Tattu, Hello Oriental and Neon Tiger are all teaming up for Eat Well MCR

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak urged to examine universal basic income to protect Brits from future crises

Almost 300 individuals including MPs, councillors, academics and mayors from across the country have signed an open letter to the new Prime Minister telling him basic income 'could be our generation's NHS'

The Guardian - UK

This is no country for young people. The fate of so many of our children is sealed at birth

Shocking new figures reveal the ugly truth that the circumstances of early years, from a baby’s weight to family ties, matter too much

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Liverpool Echo

Family warn kids 'might not even get a Christmas card' this year

The Wilcox family have bought more than 1000 presents for children in poverty in the last nine years

The Guardian - UK

‘We all want to leave’: poverty, not crime, fuels the urge to flee Albania

In the north, there’s no work. In the capital, corruption blocks young people’s progress. It’s no surprise there’s an exodus

Daily Mirror

Most voters back our campaign to end period poverty in UK - here are our demands

Scotland became the first country in the world to eradicate period poverty when Labour MSP Monica Lennon’s parliamentary Bill made it law in 2021

Salon

A panhandling study's unsettling finding

A study found that panhandlers received more generous donations if they were dressed in a suit

The Guardian - UK

UK mortgage rate rises ‘will put extra 400,000 people in poverty’

Analysis from Joseph Rowntree Foundation also finds rents for new lets could rise sharply

The Guardian - UK

Squeeze will donate all proceeds from new EP and single to food banks

Band’s track Food for Thought highlights poverty crisis with concertgoers asked to bring items for Trussell Trust

Evening Standard

‘School milk derision made me determined to succeed’

Growing up in the North, Louise Powell lived below the poverty line. Now a writer, director and filmmaker, with her scripts broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and performed at theatres, the 30-year-old said free school meals allowed her to “break the cycle”. In our final #FreeMadeMe interview — in…

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