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The Two Presidents Are In Sync Using the Media to Deliver the Message: CGI Opens in NYC.

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Global Health, Meet the Press, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Former President Bill Clinton, Economy, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, United Nations, This Week, Face the Nation, President Obama, World Poverty, CBS Face the Nation, Media, Clinton Global Initiative, Cgi, Media Criticism, Climate Change, Global Warming, Good Morning America, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

The Clinton Global Initiative is a magnificent prelude to the meetings to be held later in the week with the Chinese government and other world leaders at the United Nations. This is a true gesture of unity.

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Addressing the Convergence of Crises

Tri Robinson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Child Soldiering, Crises, Pandemics, Human Trafficking, Spiritual Confusion, Illiteracy, Global Health Epidemics, Climate Change, Disease, RE:FORM, Environmental Decline, Crisis, Education Reform, World Crises, World Poverty, Aids, Global Warming, Green News
Tri Robinson

When you look at the scope of the world's problems today, the environmental crisis is not one that can be addressed singularly. It is the linchpin of so many different crises.

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Where Poverty and Culture Intersect: Embracing Local Traditions to Better Fight Poverty

Ivonne A-Baki | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: United National Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Poverty, Unesco, World Poverty, Arts, Global Poverty, Culture, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News
Ivonne A-Baki

If the world's poor are to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and onto the path of development, culture is both a means and ends for doing so.

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Trinidad: Walled Off Community Sparks Poverty Debate Ahead Of Americas Summit

Miami Herald | JACQUELINE CHARLES | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The residents of Beetham Gardens, a drab area of rundown government housing and relentless gang warfare, have been cut off...

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It's Time to Set Them Free

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Global Coalition Against Poverty, Nelson Mandela, International Poverty, World Poverty, Desmond Tutu, International, Gcap, Politics News
Kumi Naidoo

Today, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we call on all citizens of the world to take action against the structures and rules that perpetuate the deepening poverty and inequality in our world.

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Hunger Causing Rising Anger Across The Globe

New York Times | MARC LACEY | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business

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Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. H...

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Many Of World's Poor Not Permitted Access To Morphine

New York Times | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Dying in Pain, Pain Relief, World Poverty, Morphine, Business News

Although the rainy season was coming on fast, Zainabu Sesay was in no shape to help her husband. Ditches had to be dug to protect their cassava and pe...

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