AIDS death toll in Africa may reach 100 million by 2025
AIDS could kill 31 million people in India and 18 million in China by 2025, according to projections by U.N. population researchers. By then in Africa, where AIDS likely began and where the virus has wrought the most devastation, researchers said the toll could reach 100 million.
Associated Press  - June 3, 2006

Indonesian quake leaves 4,300 dead and 200,000 homeless
After sleeping outside in streets and fields, Indonesian earthquake survivors scavenged their wrecked villages Sunday for food, clothing and anything of use as the death toll rose to more than 4,300. Some 200,000 people were left homeless.
Associated Press  - May 28, 2006

Eleven million at risk in E.Africa drought: UN
As many as 11 million people are threatened with starvation across east Africa because of a combination of drought and conflict, a U.N. special investigator warned on Monday.
Reuters  - February 20, 2006

100 days on, Pakistan quake survivors under constant threat
Cold and disease are constant threats in Pakistan's earthquake zone but the United Nations said on Saturday if donations are sustained, the more than three million survivors should make it through the winter. Monday marks 100 days since the quake killed more than 73,000 people.
Reuters  - January 16, 2006

Millions on the brink of starvation in Horn of Africa, says UN
Six million people are on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa region due to severe drought, crop failure and depletion of livestock herds, the United Nations said on Friday. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said about 2 million people needed urgent humanitarian help in Somalia, 1.5 million in Ethiopia, and 2.5 million in Kenya.
Reuters  - January 6, 2006

U.N. Looking to Prepare Now for 2006's Unforeseen Disasters
Overwhelmed with the challenges posed by a series of natural disasters that occurred in 2005, United Nations officials responsible for delivering humanitarian aid are urging international donors to get prepared for the next year now. In contrast to the response to December 2004's Indian Ocean tsunami, many U.N. operations remained "dangerously underfunded."
OneWorld US  - December 30, 2005

Economies Are Growing, But Unemployment and Poverty Remain High in Africa
Despite significant improvement in economic growth, nearly half of the population on the African continent remains poor and jobless, a new study by the United Nations points out. Despite significant improvement in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in recent years, 46 percent of the total population still earns less than a dollar a day.
OneWorld US  - December 22, 2005

World Leaders Agree Poor Countries Need Debt Relief, But Can't Agree on Plan
World finance officials identified Third World debt as one of several key threats to the global economy during weekend talks here but failed to seal a deal to solve the problem.
OneWorld US  - April 18, 2005

AIDS Ravaging Economies, Causing Hunger, Say Experts
AIDS is having a devastating impact on farms, economies, and societies' ability to feed themselves, health and agricultural experts warned Thursday.
OneWorld US  - April 14, 2005

World's Poor Need Fairer Trade Rules, Reports Aid Group
Rich countries' demands that poorer nations open their markets to foreign rice and other farm imports could destroy the livelihoods of millions of poor farmers, international charity Oxfam warned on Monday.
OneWorld US  - April 11, 2005

"Hypocritical" international aid system fails world's poorest
International aid agencies today rounded on the world's wealthiest nations for failing to reform an aid system they described as "uncoordinated, self-serving and hypocritical".
Oxfam International  - March 25, 2005

Show of Unity & Strength by G20 Countries, says Oxfam
International agency Oxfam today welcomed the tough stand taken by a united G20 in demanding elimination of export subsidies within five years, at a Ministerial Meeting on March 18-19, 2005, in New Delhi.
Oxfam International  - March 25, 2005

Oxfam: Poor Are Paying the Price of Rich Countries' Failure
A new report from international agency Oxfam today reveals that 45 million more children will die needlessly by 2015, because rich countries are failing to provide the necessary resources they promised to overcome poverty.
Oxfam International  - December 6, 2004

AIDS Epidemic Update 2004
The annual AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. With maps and regional summaries, the 2004 edition provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic’s scope and human toll, explores new trends in the epidemic’s evolution, and features a special section on women and AIDS.
UNAIDS / WHO  - November 23, 2004

Report explodes myth of free trade
Twenty years of free market dogma, pushed on poor countries by the rich, has failed developing countries by increasing poverty amongst the world's poorest people. It is time to explode the myth of "free" trade, says Christian Aid.
Christian Aid (UK)  - October 19, 2004

Food Day plea for unseen Hungry - WFP
In a speech to WFP's Executive Board on the eve of World Food Day, WFP Executive Director James Morris asks the world not to forget the 840 million people in places as far apart as Liberia and Peru whose chronic hunger is hidden from our TV screens.
World Food Programme  - October 14, 2004

U.N. Human Development Report 2004
Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth.
U.N. Development Program (UNDP)  - July 15, 2004

As G8 leaders discuss global poverty, UNICEF puts spotlight on children in poor countries
While leaders of the world's richest countries gather on Sea Island for the G8 Summit, UNICEF calls on them to remember the plight of children in many of the world’s poorest countries.
UNICEF (U.N. Children's Fund)  - June 4, 2004

The politics of poverty: Aid in the new Cold War
Some of the world's poorest people are already paying for the War on Terror, as the giving of aid by the world's richest countries becomes ruled by the rhetoric of 'with us or against us'. This must not continue, says this year's Christian Aid Week report.
Christian Aid (UK)  - May 28, 2004

Don't make the poor pay for the war on terror
Some of the world's poorest people are already paying for the War on Terror, as the giving of aid by the world's richest countries becomes ruled by the rhetoric of 'with us or against us'. This must not continue, says a new report from Christian Aid.
Christian Aid, UK  - May 28, 2004