The 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights has kicked off, with the theme Poverty Elimination: Seeking Common Development to Build a Community of Shared Future for Human Beings. The two-day event this year has over 200 attendees from over 50 countries, r

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Hua Quan, a deputy of the 5th annual session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC). [Photo: China Plus/Sun Yang] Poverty alleviation has been one of the hot topics at the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC). In China, most o

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Poverty Shaves Years off Life贫穷是疾病的一大根源 Back in 2011 member countries of the World Health Organization, the WHO, came up with a plan to cut mortality from noncommunicable diseases 25 percent by the year 2025. The program was thus

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U.S. officials said Monday they expect North Korea to make its long-awaited declaration of its nuclear program this week, probably Thursday. The action would open the way to the next phase of the six-party deal under which Pyongyang is to scrap its

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By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 23 January 2007 watch US Poverty report The United States is a wealthy nation, but poverty still exists here. By the government's own measure, more than one in every eight Americans lives below the poverty line -- on i

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By Paula Wolfson White House 15 June 2006 President Bush says reducing world poverty is a major objective of U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Bush says promoting trade and freedom is key to meeting that goal. ------------------------------------------- Pres

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 20 July 2006 Japan received a sobering warning about its economy from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday. The OECD, in its annual survey of Japan, says that the country has finally emerged fro

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By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 08 December 2006 watch Human Rights Day In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since that day, December 10 has marked World Human Rights Day. This year, the Unite

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By Heda Bayron Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines 16 July 2007 House with solar panel unit in Patagan Electricity has yet to reach hundreds of far-flung villages in the Philippines. But a solar energy system project for the country's remote villages is

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Anti-Christian violence appears to be worsening in the eastern Indian state of Orissa with Hindu extremist groups ransacking churches, schools, health clinics and houses belonging to Christians. The violence has left at least 18 people dead and more

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By Melinda Smith Washington 24 October 2007 The World Health Organization reports that at least ten million children under the age of five die every year. And a new international study of childhood mortality confirms that children would live longer

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2006 A new report says the economies of the world's 50 poorest countries grew by nearly six percent in 2004, the highest rate in two decades. But the report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development says this posit

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 June 2006 Sauri, in western Kenya, is one of a dozen so-called Millennium Villages set up across the continent by American and African development experts and funded by governments and private donors. Local committees wi

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Arab World Faces Serious Poverty, Food Security Challenges A new report says Arab countries face a serious food security challenge and that poverty rates are much higher than official numbers suggest. It blames the situation on vulnerability to volat

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Urbanization Helps Curb Poverty, Says World Bank It says countries and regions with a high rate of urbanization lead in the effort to reach their Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs). For example, countries with large population centers in East Asi

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IMF, World Bank to Discuss Poverty, Power, and Growth More than one billion people around the world live in extreme poverty, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is determined to change that. He is asking the banks member nations for more resources

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As Congress Debates US Poverty, Relief Group Provides Services Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in the United States, some 46 million Americans - about 15 percent of the population - are living in poverty. On Capitol

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One Billion at Risk of Extreme Poverty 大约十亿人面临极端贫困风险 Climbing out of extreme poverty -- and staying there can be very difficult. A new report warns up to one billion people are at risk of extreme poverty by 2030 unless more

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By Jordan Davis Dakar 17 October 2006 Nomad woman stand in a food line at a village near the small town of Dakoro, Niger As the international community marks World Poverty Day Tuesday, health experts say one of the keys to reducing poverty is improv

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By Michael Bowman Washington 13 April 2008 Dignitaries from around the world gathered in Washington Sunday to launch an ambitious project aimed at ending global poverty among women. VOA's Michael Bowman reports. United Nations statistics show that wo

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