A new status report on the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals found that despite unprecedented progress in the past 13 years, eradicating poverty worldwide by 2015 would require new efforts ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

More than a quarter of the global population still lacks access to seven basic needs identified as fundamental by the late Pope Francis -- with close to 60% living in nations with severe restrictions ...

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Arab nations have made strides in boosting health and education but efforts to meet U.N. anti-poverty goals by 2015 are undermined by conflict, unemployment and ...