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Millions of women live like this today. They are the poorest of the poor. 如今还有万千上万的妇女像这样生活着。她们是真正的最穷的穷人。 Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of

VOA慢速英语 英国富人财富比穷人增长快

AS IT IS 2015-12-27 Wealthy Britons Get Rich Faster Than the Poor 英国富人财富比穷人增长快 The British government reports that the countrys richest people are increasing their wealth three times as fast as the poorest. The report is addin

VOA标准英语2010-Program Teaches Poor Women, Girls in Nair

Program - I'm Worth Defending - teaches girls and women how to defend themselves Rape is a constant threat for girls and women living in the crime-ridden slums of Kenya's capital, Nairobi. It is estimated that one out of five women are raped in the s

万花筒 2008-09-05&09-06 避免重蹈“卡特里娜”覆辙

The question on everyones mind as they evacuated inland, I think, was is history about to repeat? We want help! We want help! Gustav hasn't hit yet, but inevitably people will compare the response to this storm to the Katrina response three years ago

南方各州是美国最贫穷的地方

Southern States Among the Poorest in US 南方各州是美国最贫穷的地方 Southern states are some of the poorest in the U.S., while wealth lives mostly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Mississippi is the nations poorest state, says t

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3079 downward

今天我们要学的词是downward. Downward作为形容词，有向下的意思。The U.S. prison population extended an eight-year downward trend that has been driven by federal and state sentencing reforms over the past decade. 过去10年美国联

VOA慢速英语20060626a

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - U.N. Says Aid, Economic Growth Fail to Cut Poverty in Poorest NationsBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Develop

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Trickle Up Program Helps the Poorest of

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Trickle Up Program Helps the Poorest of the Poor By Gary Garriott Broadcast: Monday, November 22, 2004 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. There is an

2007年VOA标准英语-UN: World's Poorest Nations Need Technological

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 July 2007 A new United Nations report says the world's 50 poorest nations will not be able to reduce poverty unless they acquire the knowledge and technology needed to catch up with the economic achievements of the rest of t

比尔盖茨2016年度公开信：能源与时间

If you could have one superpower, what would it be? 若你能拥有超能力，那会是什么呢? More time. More energy. If the world can put more of both into the hands of the poorest, we believe it will allow millions of dreams to take flight. Ju

VOA标准英语2009年-British Aid Agency Calls for G20 to Live U

By Selah Hennessy London 23 September 2009 As leaders of the G20 group of major economies prepare to meet in the United States this week, a British aid agency is calling for them to live up to promises made for more financial aid to the world's poor

VOA标准英语2010年-Olympic Athletes Promote Sports in Dev

As the world focuses on the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, an athlete-based, international humanitarian organization is using the spotlight to help promote sports in the poorest parts of the planet. The organization, called Right To Play, help

科学美国人60秒 SSS Heat Will Hit America's Poorest Worst

Heat Will Hit America's Poorest Worst 退出巴黎协议？伤害的可是美国穷人 In President Trump's June 1st speech withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, he claimed the climate agreement was costing American workers. In a whole

【一起听英语】世界上最贫穷的地方

世界上最贫穷的地方，他们的生活令人难以想象，一些我们平日里唾手可得的东西对他们来说都是奢侈品..... Rob: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Rob. Vera: And hello, I'm Vera.

【英音模仿秀】解决非洲税务问题是关键

模仿文本： One man though who is cautiously optimistic is the UN's former secretary general, now a leading development campaigner, Kofi Annan. He says that Africa is losing a staggering amount in tax revenue. Some estimates say as much as $60 bi

VOA常速英语2007年-Asia's Poorest Nations May Face Worst of Climat

By Kate Woodsome Hong Kong 26 November 2007 Developing countries are likely to be among those suffering the most from the extreme weather conditions linked to global warming. At the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Indonesia, expe

Poorest Chinese province to settle 100,000 in new homes

GUIYANG, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A southwestern Chinese province with the largest impoverished population in the country will relocate more than 100,000 destitute rural residents into modern communities before spring 2013. The move was part of a poverty a

VOA标准英语2013--报告称自然灾害加剧贫困

Report: Natural Disasters Worsen Poverty 报告称自然灾害加剧贫困 A new report says hundreds of millions of extremely poor people could be at the mercy of natural disasters in the coming years. It says unless they are better prepared to face

2018年CRI Film on the poorest slums of Lebanon premiers in China

'Capharnaum', a new film by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, has recently premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film, which vividly portrays the poorest slum life in Lebanon, earned Labaki the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festiv

【英音模仿秀】欠发达国家中的难民

模仿句子： Rash and her family are among roughly 380 thousand of Lebanon's poorest, who receive help under the National Poverty Targeting Programme, a welfare service set up in late 2011 that has been stepped up in the wake of the Syrian refugee