i get this newsletter, from IPS and i am not surprised, that only un impoverished parts of the world are the Australia, Europe and America.
any comments on this kind of research that some how forgets that poverty is in ‘all’ countries, and that some are rich within each country and some are not.
and that there are multiple factors to the perceived poverty as being ‘MORE’ in one country, for argument’s sake, even believe that it is indeed a non Caucasian country, but then, is poverty not in the US, in Europe, & in Australia?
the sad thing is that those countries, where it is a reality, locals do not do much to address it, where as the more wealthy take away the charge on writing about this and feeling a sense of personal superiority.
the good will can not be gleaned in this mass effort to write reports, present highly useful info, which clearly undermines other nations, and countries.
wonder why they don’t write about the main causes of poverty in the rest of the world, because then the research will speak the truth behind the truth and who need that, who would want that to happen?
any comments or u can share other reports which make you think that why, just why the expose’ through such reports written in the West, only target the non-Caucasian countries?
Subject Reality of Poverty Is Everywhere
The Week with IPS
Here are some of the most-read stories of the past seven days – and stories you shouldn’t go without reading.
SOUTH AFRICA: “The Reality of Poverty Is Everywhere”
Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG - Twelve years after the demise of apartheid, poverty remains one of the main challenges facing South Africa – although opinions vary about how widespread it is.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35114
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Billion Lives in the Balance - IPS Coverage of the Millennium Development Goals:
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/devdeadline/index.asp
New U.N. Chief Could Be an Asset in Korean Crisis
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When U. Thant of Burma was the first – and last – Asian Secretary-General of the United Nations during 1961-1971, the former Burmese ambassador was described as modest and low-key compared with his high-profile predecessor, Sweden’s Dag Hammarskjold, who died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35076
EAST ASIA: Grappling with Security Crisis Triggered by N. Korea Nuke Test
Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - North Korea’s underground nuclear weapons test, the first by the Stalinist state, has plunged East Asia into its worst security crisis – a situation so bad that analysts contend the fallout could be a string of difficult problems in the region.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35072
IRAQ: Resistance Growing Up at School
Ali Al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
KHALDIYA - The bomb went off just outside the school as the IPS correspondent stood speaking to children and teachers within.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35079
Thai Coup Leaders Engage Shadowy Malay-Muslim Rebels
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Since violence erupted in Thailand’s southern provinces nearly three years ago, the local Malay-Muslim population could have been excused for saying, at times, that Bangkok’s troops were fighting ghosts.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35094
MIDEAST: Peacemaking Goes Into Deep Coma
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - The Qatari foreign minister proposing a six-point plan for a Fatah-Hamas government of national unity, including a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict. The U.S. Secretary of State visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a bid to revive long-moribund peace talks.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35055
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: What’s to Be Done with 33,000 AIDS Orphans?
Diógenes Pina
BARAHONA - Ansi, Luisa, Sofía and Oveña lost their father to AIDS last year in this Dominican Republic town near the border with Haiti, after he was bedridden for six months. Their future looks dim as their mother was also infected with HIV by her husband.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35108
DR CONGO: A Glimmer of Hope for Children Working in Katanga’s Mines
Denis Bouwen
BRUSSELS - Each day, thousands of children risk their lives by working in mines in the Katanga province of south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo – something a coalition of organisations is trying to address.
http://ipsnews.org/interna.asp?idnews=35091
IRAQ: Increase in Executions Condemned
Srabani Roy
NEW YORK - International human rights organisations are increasingly worried about the recent rise in executions and people sentenced to death in Iraq.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35096
LATIN AMERICA: The Use - and Abuse - of Development Aid
Alberto Mendoza
GUATEMALA CITY - Hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid flows into the poorest countries of Latin America every year. But the money does not always reach its destination. For that reason, governments and civil society organisations have begun to apply new mechanisms to guarantee transparency.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35097
SRI LANKA: Clashes Mar Government, Tigers’ Vow to Talk
Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Continuous military confrontations and rhetoric have diminished hopes of renewed negotiations between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers just days after Norwegian facilitators won assurances from both sides to reopen talks.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35084 (Subscription)
COLOMBIA: Harvesting Sunshine for Biofuels
Gloria Helena Rey
PUERTO LÓPEZ - The sun generates energy; sugar cane, cassava, African oil palm, beets and potatoes store it; and Colombians are determined to transform the energy concentrated in these crops into biofuels.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35088
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