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Latin American Poverty Levels Fall to Lowest in Two Decades
Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which points to...
How One Tech Giant Gives Back to Education
Intel is on a mission to bring computers to young people in developing regions. Since September 2009, a team of 100 Intel employees has...
25 Rescued Lions Start New Life in US After Circus Mistreatment
A record-breaking animal rescue operation ended Thursday when 25 Bolivian circus lions touched down at Denver airport in route to their new life within...
Brazil’s Successful Social Program: Pay the Poor
In the past seven years, the income of poor Brazilians has surged as the number of those in poverty has fallen from 22 percent...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2009
Despite what may be your immediate impression of 2009, overall it was a great year. Looking back, one can be grateful that the economy...
Global Child Mortality Continues to Drop
UNICEF this week released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in 2008....
Africa Alone Could Feed the World
Doom-mongers have got it wrong - there is plenty of unused, fertile land available in the world to produce the extra food needed...
Donations of $450 Million Hit UN Emergency Fund Target for First Time
The United Nations emergency relief fund, set up to speed response to those suffering from natural and man-made disasters, has reached its $450 million...
Unicef: Child Mortality Down 27 percent Since 1990
Child mortality rates have dropped 28% worldwide since 1990, UNICEF reported Friday. Death rates of children aged five and under have even dropped by...
$500M Donation by Saudi Arabia Helps UN Meet Food Crisis Goal
Saudi Arabia has made a landmark offer to contribute $500 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to help with efforts to...
UN Welcomes Bush’s Call for $770M in Global Food Aid
The UN World Food Program has thanked President Bush “for his urgent call to action to combat the advance of hunger among the world’s...
Houses Built on Plastic Bottles Combat Poverty, and Litter (Video)
A house made of littered plastic bottles filled with sand and reinforced with concrete has given a Bolivian family a much-needed sturdy dwelling, while...
Five Ways the United Nations is Saving People and the Planet
In 1997, the owner of Cable News Network, Ted Turner, shocked the world when he handed over a billion dollars to the United Nations....
World Bank Cancels Debt of 17 of the World’s Poorest Countries
The World Bank approved details to implement the 2005 debt relief initiative, which will cancel the debt of some of the world’s poorest countries...
Healing the Globe: 11 Bright Spots
A quick rundown of 11 bright spots that are healing the globe, from Cairo to California, from Bolivia to British Columbia, From Moroco to...
Sage In Toyland: Slinky CEO Cares About Her Employees
I had to call Betty. I hadn’t talked to her in a while. I had met Betty a few years ago when I toured...