Nearly 700 million people worldwide are living in extreme poverty, surviving on under $2.15 per day, according to the World Bank’s latest estimates released ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Protesters braved extreme heat in Seville on Sunday to call for debt relief, fairer taxation, and climate action on the eve of a major United Nations summit on global development.
In a Sudanese hospital, emaciated mothers cradle starving toddlers, their sunken eyes pleading for help. With war raging for nearly two years, food and medicine have all but disappeared. Doctors ration milk, families struggle to survive, and aid cuts threaten to make the crisis even deadlier.
There's been a steady rise of poverty over the last two decades according to the latest report from the Inequality Observatory. It shows the number of people living below the poverty line has increased by 1.4 million in the last twenty years.
You can download the AnewZ application from Play Store and the App Store.
