Poverty

Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual or group lacks the resources, income, or access to opportunities to meet their basic needs, such as food, shelter, and healthcare. Poverty can be measured in various ways, including absolute poverty, which is defined as the lack of access to the minimum resources necessary to meet basic needs, and relative poverty, which is defined as the inability to participate fully in the economic and social life of a society due to a lack of resources compared to others in the same society. Poverty is a global issue that affects millions of people around the world, and it is often linked to other social and economic issues, such as inequality, unemployment, and poor health.

5 ways to fight slavery this Anti-Slavery Day (18 October)
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5 ways to fight slavery this Anti-Slavery Day (18 October)

Image credit: haak78, via Shutterstock. Across the globe, a staggering 49.6 million people live in modern slavery. Roughly a quarter are children. Modern slavery is all around us, often hidden in plain sight. People can become enslaved making our clothes, picking our crops, working in factories, or working in houses as cooks, cleaners or nannies….

Domestic Servitude Survivor Now Runs Her Own Tailoring Shop
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Domestic Servitude Survivor Now Runs Her Own Tailoring Shop

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…

How to find ethical products – Sponsored Stories News – NZ Herald
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How to find ethical products – Sponsored Stories News – NZ Herald

New online tool highlights ethical products for Kiwi shoppers. New Zealanders are being urged to use new breakthrough technology to buy products that are ethically sourced to reduce exploitation. The call has come from ethical shopping activist Dr Susan Maiava who says the 2021 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery Report shows the number of people…

Home Office makes modern slavery an illegal immigration issue in ‘highly regressive’ move
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Home Office makes modern slavery an illegal immigration issue in ‘highly regressive’ move

The Home Office has reclassified modern slavery as an immigration issue instead of a safeguarding concern in what Hope for Justice describes as a “highly regressive” move. It follows claims from the Home Secretary last week that modern slavery laws are being abused and “derailing the UK’s policy on illegal migration.” The Home Office has…

Rights activists fear spike in bonded labour – The Express Tribune
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Rights activists fear spike in bonded labour – The Express Tribune

KARACHI: The provincial and the federal governments should take steps to protect and rehabilitate landless peasants and farmworkers who lost their crops, wages, cattle and houses during rains and floods. Already living under the poverty line, the peasants and farmworkers devastated by floods have become easy prey of greedy landlords and bonded labour contractors, said…

Greater risk of sex trafficking in pandemic New York
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Greater risk of sex trafficking in pandemic New York

New York has seen a spike in sex trafficking cases during the worst of the pandemic. “It’s the deadly combination of people losing their jobs, increasing poverty, and many victims sheltering in their homes with abusers,” Dorchen Leidholdt, director of the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families, told The Telegraph. Traffickers…

The cruel nexus of child labour and intergenerational poverty in India – Hindustan Times
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The cruel nexus of child labour and intergenerational poverty in India – Hindustan Times

opinionPublished on Oct 12, 2022 07:29 PM IST Child labour is inherently complex in India and requires the government and industry to work together, with civil society liaisoning with the State, to ensure that the supply chain is free of children, while also focusing on rehabilitation post-rescue. ByAnindit Roy Chowdhury Thirteen-year-old Aastha lives in a…

Kansas Introduces New Training to Help Community Members Recognize, Fight Human Trafficking
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Kansas Introduces New Training to Help Community Members Recognize, Fight Human Trafficking

Despite the malevolent, prevalent nature of human trafficking, many people remain tragically uninformed about it. Some people wrongly believe trafficking in persons only occurs overseas, in third-world nations, or elsewhere. Unfortunately, human trafficking happens everywhere. This is all the more reason to raise awareness and inform the general public. Thankfully, growing numbers of communities are…