Sentences with phrase «global poverty numbers»

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The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

Thanks to aid spending from around the world, we have seen massive breakthroughs in reducing global poverty, and especially the number of child deaths.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

White young adults named family breakdown as number one, followed by poverty and global warming.

Asian American young adults, meanwhile, named family breakdown as the number - one issue, but they felt neighborhood violence was almost equally important, while poverty and global warming tied for third.

I first noticed it in 1979 when the United Nations International Year of the Child — a global campaign to end poverty and provide health and human rights to all children — was attacked by a number of groups, including Americans Against Abortion, which called it «an intense propaganda campaign to «liberate» children from their parents.»

In the last decade, due in part to the global economic crisis that is taking place, these so called developed countries are watching how the number of its residents living in poverty is on the rise every year.

Ms. Falik is the founder and chief executive of Global Citizen Year, which, she told me, aims to expand the number of young Americans taking a «gap year» between high school and college to work abroad on projects that increase their awareness of the world outside of the United States and, as Pop!Tech says, «create a pipeline of leaders prepared to combat global poverty and injustice throughout their lives.&Global Citizen Year, which, she told me, aims to expand the number of young Americans taking a «gap year» between high school and college to work abroad on projects that increase their awareness of the world outside of the United States and, as Pop!Tech says, «create a pipeline of leaders prepared to combat global poverty and injustice throughout their lives.&global poverty and injustice throughout their lives.»

The World Bank came out with new numbers on global poverty last week --- and they were full of good news: The proportion of people living on a less than $ 1.25 a day has halved since 1990.

It's two superimposed realities that are emerging as humanity's environmental footprint grows, both through sheer numbers, with a global population heading toward 9 billion, and through the outflow of an expanding range of wastes, reflecting both poverty and affluence in different places:

«When I joined the American Physical Society sixty - seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood... the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence... How different it is now... the money flood has become the raison d'etre of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs... It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.

The document highlights climate change as one of a number of new elements in the global environment that must be considered for rural poverty reduction.

Because, as we have pointed out previously, with similar statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the number of people who die from climate change is far, far, less than the number of people who die, or are affected by, poverty.

A number of different efforts have been working to build and sell products like that to those of us in the First World in order to help underwrite those projects, to raise awareness of the issues of global energy poverty, and to fund the development of rugged and affordable off - grid power solutions for the developing world.

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2015 — Global climate change will aggravate problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries, according to a report the Defense Department sent to Congress yesterday.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).