Poverty News
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Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge costFailure to provide 4 billion people with access to clean, safe and affordable ways of cooking is costing US$2.4 trillion a year. -
Twin 'crises' of climate and Covid hammering millions, Red Cross saysAs the pandemic coincides with weather disasters, people are more vulnerable to both threats—and it's harder for aid agencies to help them.
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'Historic' labour law raises fear Indian workers will pay priceIndia's parliament passes three laws to connect more workers with welfare amid concerns that compromises on their legal rights. -
How Philippine social enterprises battered by the lockdown are staying afloatNearly one in three businesses that support mostly small farmers, women and micro-entrepreneurs in the Philippines saw zero revenue at the height of the pandemic. Here’s how they’re fighting back.
Poverty Opinion
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Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?– Absolute temperatures are expected to rise more slowly in the tropics than in higher latitudes and polar regions, but the combination of heat and rising humidity will make life more challenging. -
The Covid city– The Covid-19 pandemic has fallen hardest not just on cities but on poorer, overcrowded neighborhoods. Could the pandemic lead to a more advanced and inclusive form of urbanism? -
Refugees are essential to the Covid-19 response– To build a better world, every action counts. When it comes to ending the Covid-19 pandemic, those actions must include a broad global commitment to ensuring that all people—including refugees—are protected.
Videos
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Sun, waves and steam: How is Indonesia winning with renewables?– Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.
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Meet the families working in Indonesia's palm oil industry– What has been the effect of this agribusiness company's dual-income policy on the households of its Indonesian workers?
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For Southeast Asia's migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas
Food & Agriculture
For Southeast Asia's migrant fishers, modern slavery is still alive on the high seas
– On International Human Rights Day, Greenpeace releases shocking testimonies from Southeast Asian migrants working on board foreign fishing vessels, plying the remote waters to meet Asia's surging demand for seafood. -
Manila’s informal settlers face relocation to give way to massive bay clean up– The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
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