16 October 2024 - The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2024 highlights a widespread but often ignored aspect of poverty: social and institutional mistreatment. This hidden violence, ...

“How can it be true that there are so many poor people? If it were as they say, they would be seen”. These phrases were uttered not long ago by a political leader from Madrid, who was trying to refute ...

In the next few weeks, Aug. 5-21, the city of Rio de Janeiro is going to host the 31st Olympic Games. Like a mother preparing her home for 500,000 tourists, Rio has swept the city’s poverty under the ...

The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan Australian filmmaker Rionne McAvoy's documentary film explores Japan's unknown ...

TOKYO -- A photo exhibition by Naoko Sakokawa, who documented the "Shinjuku cardboard village" -- a community that welcomed people living rough in the Japanese capital near Shinjuku Station's west ...