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Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

This story is part of a series on gentrification, which appears online and in the February 2015 print issue. Jodi Duron, while in her first year as the superintendent of a central Texas school ...

Nancy Economou, has an unusual yet highly effective approach to combatting human trafficking. Her charity, Watts of Love, uses solar-powered lights to create economic empowerment. Increased economic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Oct 16, 2024, 11:47am EDT ProSocial AI may be a treasure ...

I can’t afford to properly feed my children. It’s a bitter feeling when all we have at the end of the month is bread and butter … It tears you apart. I feel like I’m not doing justice to anyone, not ...

It is not uncontroversial to say that poverty is a form of injustice. That those living without their basic needs met are not being treated fairly within our rich and affluent, well-connected society.

“The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” —St. Teresa of ...