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Energy price cap ending in April will 'make a huge difference' and push more people into fuel poverty

'We need to think a lot more of the people who are most vulnerable in our society'

Bristol Post

What is the threshold for fuel poverty? How to find out your status

There is help available for fuel-poor households – find out whether you qualify

Evening Standard

Calls for government to increase core social welfare payments by €8 with almost 10% of us living in poverty

It comes as a recent study found that one in every nine people in Ireland lives in poverty

Irish Mirror

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210,000 London pupils in poverty but no free school meals

Over 40 per cent of children in the capital living in poverty are unable to receive free school meals

Evening Standard

New figures show extent of hunger crisis facing schoolchildren

Feed the Future: At least a third of children in poverty across London, the East of England and the South East of England can’t access free school meals

The Independent UK

DWP urged to introduce £25 weekly uplift immediately on all means-tested benefits to help with cost of living

Devolved ministers are also calling for the benefit cap and two-child limit to be abolished.

Daily Record

UN poverty chief warns cuts will cost lives as experts say there's 'no fat to trim'

Liz Truss has been hit by multiple warnings of what'll happen if she slashes public spending - as her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned every department could face cuts to balance the books

Daily Mirror

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UN: Ukraine War Pushes 4 Million Children into Poverty

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, the UN children's agency said Monday. "Children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine," UNICEF said. The conflict "and rising…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian ‘kamikaze’ drones strike Kyiv, Zelensky says attacks ‘won’t break’ Ukrainians

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said Russian “kamikaze drones” hit Kyiv early on Monday. Zelensky said Russia had launched a barrage of drone and missile attacks across the country, but that the strikes would not "break" Ukrainians. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events…

France 24

Fighter jet crashes in Russian city near Ukraine; Kyiv says 108 women freed in prisoner swap – as it happened

Fighter plane hits residential building in southern Russian city of Yeysk; Ukraine says it is first all-female exchange with Moscow

The Guardian - AU

Russia war in Ukraine pushes 4 million children into poverty: UN

Study of 22 countries shows children in Russia and Ukraine were most affected by the economic fallout of war, UN says.

Al Jazeera

Special Report: Empowering women to reduce poverty

Zero-global poverty cannot be achieved if women’s empowerment is not prioritised.

360info

More women entrepreneurs mean less global poverty

Entrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth but it can only move into top gear when there are more women.

360info

Blockchain’s potential extends to poverty busting

The technology can help circumvent traditional barriers to women’s empowerment.

360info

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What really works to reduce poverty

Understanding why some poverty reduction programmes work and others don’t calls for a better understanding of the people involved.

360info

Where did India’s millions of working women go?

Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.

360info

Empowering women to choose weaving over illegal work

Traditional weaving can be an escape from extreme poverty in rural Indonesia, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

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The simple technology helping women escape poverty

A formal identity and a mobile phone are two key weapons in the global fight against poverty.

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The Guardian - AU

Welfare saved my life. If payments are raised to the poverty line more Australians will survive

When I received the disability support pension, for the first time in years I had my head above water. I was part of society again

The Independent UK

‘Lives will be lost’ if benefits and wages do not rise in line with inflation

The most vulnerable are “paying the price” of world events, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will say.

Manchester Evening News

Labour MP blasts protests as 'utterly sickening' after demonstrators pour milk onto floor of Manchester Marks and Spencer

'In a cost of living crisis where food poverty and foodbank use is rising, it’s also utterly sickening'

The Conversation

Social grants offer cash, but they aren't a magic bullet response to inequality in the global south

Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological spectrum have embraced social protection as an effective and efficient instrument to reduce poverty and inequality.

The National (Scotland)

In-work poverty two-thirds higher for Scottish women, ONS statistics reveal

THE number of women relying on Universal Credit while in employment is nearly two-thirds higher than for men, the Sunday National can reveal.

Daily Mirror

Period poverty fear as 'sneaky' price hike raises cost of sanitary pads and tampons

A Sunday Mirror End Period Poverty campaign investigation finds that big-name brands cost more per tampon than just a few weeks ago

Reuters

World Bank says Ukraine has tenfold increase in poverty due to war

Russia's attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities away from the front lines will complicate the dire economic situation facing the country, which has already seen a tenfold increase in poverty this year, a top World Bank official said on Saturday.

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