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	Extreme poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Extreme poverty is a severe state of poverty in which people are unable to have basic human necessities, such as food, clothes, and shelter.
		Signs indicating a person is living in extreme poverty include suffering from hunger, malnutrition, and disease.
		Absolute poverty is characterised by a lack of food, inadequate shelter and, in some cases, no shelter, lack of health care or medical services, education or transport system.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Extreme_poverty (232 words)

	COMMENT: U.S. richness fades as millions of kids live in extreme poverty
		"Extreme poverty" is defined as a family whose after-tax income is less than half of what the federal government defines as the poverty line.
		In this study, the "extreme poverty" line for a family of three was a mere $7,064 of disposable income.
		Although the study also showed that overall poverty is down in this country, that is not the case for extreme poverty of fl, Latino and white children.
	www.freep.com /voices/columnists/emonifa8_20030508.htm (469 words)

	Human Rights and Extreme Poverty
		As the United Nations Secretary-General states in his Agenda for Development, "The effects of deprivation, disease and strife in one part of the globe are felt everywhere." Increasingly we are becoming aware that as members of a single human family, we are all touched in some way by the suffering of every human being.
		The Bahá'í approach to the problem of extreme poverty is based on the application of spiritual principles.
		When discussions aimed at solving problems related to extreme poverty are based on the premise that we are one human family, they rapidly expand beyond current economic constructs.
	www.bic-un.bahai.org /94-0817.htm (1023 words)

	Declaration On Human Rights And Extreme Poverty Nov 17, 1999 (UN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Considering the content of the subject matter, the emergence of extreme poverty was examined from various angles taking into account both the domestic and international dimensions of the problem and the economic, political and social factors contributing to it.
		At the country level, poverty was generally due to the lack of social policy, the lack of employment policy and the unavailability of social safety nets.
		While underlining the interdependence and indivisibility of human rights, there was a consensus among the experts to consider extreme poverty as a denial of all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political and social, as well as the right to development.
	www.pcpafg.org /organizations/Human_rights/hrweb/Class2/HCHR_Statement/declaration_on_human_rights_and_.htm (2810 words)

	Record number of US children in extreme poverty
		While the CDF report focused on fl children because of the staggering rate of increase in extreme poverty among this group, there are growing numbers of children of all races in the US living under these wretched conditions—defined by the Census Bureau as an annual income of $7,064 or less for a family of three.
		At 8.4 percent, the fraction of fl children living in extreme poverty was as high as the 23-year peak reached in the last recession in 1992.
		At an income level of extreme poverty a family would be required to consume nearly every penny of its resources in food alone, leaving nothing for rent, lights, heat or clothing.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/may2003/pov-m07.shtml (1024 words)

	Extreme Poverty Rising, Existing Government Programs Could Do More
		While overall family poverty declined significantly, extreme poverty for persons in all families with children and those in single-parent families shrunk much less, and by the disposable-income measure it rose.
		The decline in poverty for all persons is slightly less when food stamps are included in income (3.5 million persons) and when total disposable income is used to measure poverty (3.3 million).
		Food stamp benefits have an especially large effect on extreme poverty figures because benefits are significant at this income level and a large share of these families participate.
	www.urban.org /ViewPub.cfm?PublicationID=7645 (4017 words)

	PetersNet: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, To Live In Extreme Poverty Offends Human Dignity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reducing extreme poverty by 50% by the year 2015 is the key goal of the UN Millennium Declaration, from which the other development targets are derived.
		The fight against poverty is however above all a moral imperative, especially today due to the scandalous paradox of widespread extreme poverty existing alongside the scientific and social progress capable of eliminating it.
		Extreme poverty is perhaps the most pervasive and paralysing form of violation of human rights in our world.
	www.petersnet.net /browse/4228.htm (709 words)

	FI: Item 4: Economic, social, and cultural rights - EXTREME POVERTY
		The struggle against poverty and extreme poverty should not be limited to short-term remedies targeted at extending basic survival.
		Faced with extreme poverty, human beings are unable to exercise their economic, political, social, civil and cultural rights; they are effectively treated as objects without human dignity.
		extreme poverty is a systemic phenomenon whose eradication implies the adoption of specific measures at the national and international levels, with the ultimate goal of the fulfilment of all human rights.
	www.franciscansinternational.org /docs/statement.php?id=195 (1083 words)

	[ Extreme Poverty : adopting a human rights approach - WWW.FIDH.ORG ]
		Unfortunately, this is not the daily experience of people living in extreme poverty, in the north as well as in the south and reports from people working with them at the grassroots confirm this situation.
		An interrelated analysis of these three definitions show us that the criterion that determines the specificity of extreme poverty is this invisible, but very real, threshold, under which persons and communities are trapped, which impede these people to exercise the whole set of their rights: civil, cultural, economic, political and social.
		That is why, extreme poverty, as a global and systemic condition affecting human dignity and impacting all the individual’s rights, demands the adoption of a specific response.
	www.fidh.org /article.php3?id_article=1862 (640 words)

	12M Filipinos living in extreme poverty--ADB - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The estimated extreme poverty rate in the Philippines accounted for about 46 percent of the 34-percent portion of the population identified to be living below the national poverty line.
		Official poverty lines in the Philippines are estimated by the National Statistical Coordination Board, whose methodology starts with the computation of a food threshold (or food poverty line), the income needed to pay for the cost of basic food requirements.
		At the aggregate level, the incidence of extreme poverty declined from 34.3 percent to 21.5 percent, and the number in extreme poverty dropped by 233 million during the period in review.
	news.inq7.net /nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=7061 (1057 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Palestinians 'sink into extreme poverty'
		The charity Christian Aid has published a report describing what it calls the situation of extreme poverty into which most Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are sinking.
		The growth of acute poverty among the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has as much impact on their daily lives as the violence which grabs the international headlines, it adds.
		Christian Aid gives examples of how the security situation is affecting the economy, saying that farmers are seeing their olive and citrus groves destroyed by Israeli tanks and bulldozers and traders are unable to move from village to village because of travel restrictions and curfews.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2704261.stm (381 words)

	A/RES/46/121. Human rights and extreme poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Affirms that extreme poverty and exclusion from society constitute a violation of human dignity and that urgent national and international measures are therefore required to eliminate them; 2.
		Requests the Commission on Human Rights to give appropriate consideration, in directing its studies of extreme poverty, to the conditions in which the poorest themselves can convey their experience and so contribute to a better understanding of their situation of social exclusion; 4.
		Notes with appreciation the concrete measures taken by the United Nations Children's Fund to lessen the effects of extreme poverty on children and the efforts of the United Nations Development Programme to give priority to the search for a means of alleviating poverty within the framework of the relevant resolutions; 6.
	www.un.org /documents/ga/res/46/a46r121.htm (203 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS AND EXTREME POVERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bahá'í approach to the problem of extreme poverty is based on the belief that economic problems can be solved only through the application of spiritual principles.
		The fostering of grassroots initiative is essential to the elimination of poverty; this concept has both moral and educational implications which demand profound study.
		Eduardo Suesun Monroy pointed out that extreme poverty is often compounded by the deprivation of a constellation of rights guaranteed by the Declaration of Human Rights.
	www.acemake.com /gta/rights.html (826 words)

	Scientific American: Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yet the end of such poverty is feasible if a concerted global effort is undertaken, as the nations of the world promised when they adopted the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000.
		Public opinion in affluent countries often attributes extreme poverty to faults with the poor themselves--or at least with their governments.
		The other major insight is that although the most powerful mechanism for reducing extreme poverty is to encourage overall economic growth, a rising tide does not necessarily lift all boats.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000E4C4C-F093-1304-ABA283414B7F0000 (2766 words)

	World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since then, on the 17th of October each year, the poorest and all those who reject extreme poverty and exclusion gather throughout the world to express their solidarity and their commitment to ensure that everyone’s dignity and freedom are respected.
		Father Wresinski, who was born into extreme poverty himself, founded an association with them that would later become the ATD Fourth World Movement.
		Answering the call of Father Wresinski, they proclaimed that extreme poverty is a violation of human rights; they also affirmed the necessity to come together everywhere extreme poverty exists to ensure that these rights are respected.
	www.oct17.org /site/article.php3?id_article=52 (1034 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| The family as a determinant of stunting in children living in conditions of extreme ...
		The aim of this study was to ascertain whether family-related factors are determinants of stunting in young Mexican children living in extreme poverty, and whether these factors differ between rural or urban contexts.
		The extent of malnutrition in extremely impoverished rural areas has fuelled implementation of public health programs aimed at improving children's nutritional status [18], but the impact of these programs has not been completely evaluated.
		Poverty is not confined to rural areas, nor is malnutrition; they are also present in urban environments [19].
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2458/4/57 (4559 words)

	NEWSLETTER
		The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Leandro Despouy, speaks of the "vicious circle of poverty": "virtually all the energy of the extremely poor is devoted to the struggle for survival, leaving little room for an enriching cultural and social life".
		Many situations of (extreme) poverty cannot in practice easily be tackled by using legal instruments, individually, or collectively ("collective action") because of the complexity of the problems (where to begin?), the social position of the claimants, and so on.
		There are thus some places where aspects of the poverty problem have been formulated in human rights terminology, and where it has been stressed how important it is for states to comply with the existing human rights standards as part of the struggle against poverty.
	www.svf.uib.no /sif/crop/backup/hrbakpap.htm (5605 words)

	normblog: Eradicating poverty
		Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
		Assume the truth of these propositions: that extreme poverty can be eradicated within 20 years; and that our generation can choose to do it.
		Imagine it: millions - mobilizing, demonstrating, putting constant pressure on their political representatives, not being willing to 'move on'; so that those who die 'because they are too poor to stay alive' stop dying for this reason.
	normblog.typepad.com /normblog/2005/03/eradicating_pov.html (151 words)

	Group: More Black Kids in Extreme Poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Poverty thresholds differ according to the size of a family.
		Edelman and her ilk ought to be discouraging the "extremely impoverished" from having kids in the first place.
		Their poverty is self-perpetuating because of the way that they have chosen to live their lives.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/903237/posts (2660 words)

	UNICEF - Goal: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
		An influx or tourism in one area may improve a country’s poverty statistics overall, while the majority remains poor and disenfranchised.
		Poverty contributes to malnutrition, which in turn is a contributing factor in over half of the under-five deaths in developing countries.
		The best start in life is critical in a child’s first few years, not only to survival but to her or his physical, intellectual and emotional development.
	www.unicef.org /mdg/poverty.html (1482 words)

	Human Rights and Extreme Poverty
		In a family the suffering of any member is felt by all, and until that suffering is alleviated, no member of the family can be fully happy or at ease.
		Few are able to look at starvation and extreme poverty without feeling a sense of failure.
		Discussions aimed at solving problems related to extreme poverty based on the premise that we are one human family rapidly expand beyond the current vocabulary of economics.
	www.bic-un.bahai.org /93-0212.htm (838 words)

	UN Chronicle \| Extreme Poverty Doubles in LDCs
		Extreme poverty is most prevalent in countries that depend on commodity exports for their survival and development.
		Asian LDCs have been able to reduce the percentage of people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 23 per cent by diversifying their economies and raising the average daily consumption.
		Because discrepancies between national accounts and household surveys conducted by aid groups existed, the correlation between average real consumption and extreme poverty has only recently been recognized.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/062002_extreme_poverty_doubles.html (312 words)

	UNESCO Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP)
		To provide marginalized youth, mostly from rural communities in two Caribbean islands, with holistic human development training and technical and vocational skills; to equip beneficiaries with essential skills to become self-employed artisans and/or income generators; through a built-in research and community "give-back" component to provide for progress evaluation by beneficiaries.
		To strengthen NGOs’ capacities in the promotion of democratic governance as an essential element in poverty reduction strategies in the Arab countries; to develop a pole of research-action on local governance and participatory democracy; to promote the creation and strengthening of synergies among researchers and NGOs in scientific and operational work.
		To enable the local inhabitants to remain in their traditional habitat with improved housing and sanitation, simultaneously maintaining the authenticity of the sites with a view to promoting socially equitable tourism; to mobilize local leaders and project teams; to conduct legal studies on property rights, urban regulations, conservation and development planning; to disseminate results.
	www.unesco.org /bsp/eng/xcuttingpvt.htm (867 words)

	UN report says one billion suffer extreme poverty
		The MDGs place the main responsibility for poverty reduction on the governments of poorer nations and not on Western governments and institutions and the impact of structural adjustment programmes they have imposed.
		On an assessment of current financial trends some countries would not overcome poverty until the year 2165 and it would take 20 Sub-Saharan African nations until 2147 to halve extreme poverty and until 2165 to cut child mortality rates by two-thirds.
		Per capita income in each of the 42 highly indebted countries in the report is less than $1,500 and between 1990 and 2001 these economies grew on average by only half a percent per year.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jul2003/unpo-j28.shtml (1125 words)

	MyUSTINET News: Celebrities Want To End Extreme Poverty
		The year-long charity campaign, Make Poverty History, wants world leaders to cancel debts to poor nations and provide better aid packages to the poor, the BBC reported Saturday.
		The campaign, to coincide with Britain hosting the G8 summit in Scotland and taking over presidency of the European Union, challenges Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair to address the problems of trade, aid and debt in developing countries.
		"The kind of stupid poverty where kids are dying for the lack of an immunization that costs 20 cents, or for lack of food in a world of plenty.
	news.usti.net /newsstory/news.issues.poverty/2/wed/dt/Ubritain-poverty.Rdkp_FJ1.html (196 words)

	Definitions of extreme poverty: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The lack of basic security leads to chronic poverty when it simultaneously affects several aspects of people’s lives, when it is prolonged and when it severely compromises people’s chances of regaining their rights and of reassuming their responsibilities in the forseable future.
		Poverty, material deprivation, oppression inflicted by those who have power are hard to bear.
		The greatest misfortune of extreme poverty is that for you entire existnce you are like someone already dead.
	www.atd-quartmonde.org /pj/text_pj/Definit_en.htm (446 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Middle East, North Africa region sees extreme poverty cut by half
		BEIRUT: Extreme poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has decreased by more than half over the course of the last two decades, a recent World Bank report revealed.
		With a majority of the Arab countries considered to be lower middle-income countries, the latter definition of poverty is a more relevant one in terms of tracking the region's human development.
		Further impeding the tackling of the poverty clusters in the region is the lacking data available in most of the MENA countries.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=3012 (1142 words)

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