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Poverty Program

"The earth provides enough resources for everyone's need, but not for some people's greed." Mahatma Gandhi

For more information about poverty, please visit the More Information page. The links provided below are the sources for the facts and statistics found throughout this website, but especially those listed in the Poverty Statistics section: General Statistics, Maps, Third World Hunger & Malnutrition, Education, Economic Issues, Health, Human Rights, Arms Trade, American Poverty, Newburyport, MA, and Newburyport News Online.

GENERAL STATISTICS:

  • Unicef Publications
  • Unicef, Children Under Threat
  • Net Aid
  • Borgen Project
  • Mercy Corps
  • The World Hunger Problem Statistics
  • Wikipedia
  • CIA Factbook
  • Exploring Global Conflict
  • Faces of Poverty Around the World
  • World Health Organization Maps
  • Keep a Child Alive
  • Good Neighbors Blog
  • Africa Photoscope
  • Africa Resources: General
  • Country Reports
  • Child Rights Information Network
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  • Concern USA
  • ChildInfo.org/Malnutrition
  • UN Stats
  • WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
  • Population Reference Bureau, World Population Data Sheet: International Migration Is Reshaping United States, Global Economy
  • Globalis: Madagascar, Orphans' school attendance rate as percent of non-orphans'
  • The New York Times: Putting the Annual Cost of War in Perspective
  • The World Bak Group GenderStats, Summary Gender Profile for Kenya
  • Unicef, Customized statistical tables
  • Nation Master.com
  • Human Development Report 2006
  • The World Bank, Key Development Data & Statistics
  • The 2006 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index

MAPS:

  • Global Map of Education
  • National Geographic Map Machine
  • Global Health Facts.org
  • World Mapper, Refugee Destination
  • Mapping Worlds, New Maps for the Millennium Development Goals
  • Center for Global Development, Maps
  • World Food Programma, Hunger Map
  • The World Bank, The Millennium Development Goals Map
  • The World Bank Group, Immunization, measles map
  • MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
  • Poverty Mapping, Poverty Indicators
  • United Nations Environment Programme, Maps and Graphics: security OR conflict
  • The UC Atlas of Global Inequality

THIRD WORLD HUNGER & MALNUTRITION: back to top

  • World Food Programme, Hunger Map
  • Food First.org
  • Oxfam
  • Feed the Children.org
  • End of Hunger.org
  • Bread.org, Understanding Malnutrition and Treatments
  • Convoy of Hope.org, 1 day to Feed the World

EDUCATION: back to top

  • Stand Up.org
  • Unicef, Voices of Youth: Education Fact Sheet
  • NetAid, Access to Education
  • What is the Worth of Words, by Michael Rogers
  • Mercy Corps, Education Overview
  • School Education in 'Third World' Countries: Dream or Trauma?,
    by Renate Nestvogel
  • One Laptop per Child
  • UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Where do mobile students come from?
  • UNHCR: Refugee Children: Escape from Persecution and War, teacher's resources

ECONOMIC ISSUES: back to top

  • Data.org, Why Africa?
  • Web.worldbank.org
  • Global Policy.org
  • Africa Action.org
  • Net Aid, Aid, Debt, Trade
  • Global Issues.org, Debt
  • Global Issues.org, Free Trade
  • Global Issues.org, Development
  • Global Issues.org, Fair Trade
  • Global Issues.org, Human Rights
  • Global Issues.org, Corporations
  • Global Issues.org, Consumption
  • Without Foreign Aid There is No Third World Nation
  • Environment key to Africa's prosperity, by Achim Steiner
  • Borgen Project: Global Issues
  • Capitalism's Agenda for Poverty in Africa: Bill Bonnar looks at the hypocrisy of the G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles.
  • Life After Debt Charities List

HEALTH: back to top

  • UC Atlas of Global Inequality, Economic Impact of AIDS
  • Global Health Facts.org
  • Global Issues.org, Health
  • Global Health Council, HIV/AIDS
  • UN AIDS
  • WHO, Share of General Government Expenditure Spent on Health Care
  • UNICEF, The Campaign to Save Mothers and Babies from Tetanus
  • Doctors Without Borders.org
  • World Aids Campaign, Global Map of AIDS
  • PBS, The Age of Aids, Maps: The Global Picture
  • The World Bank, HIV/AIDS in Africa
  • Education and HIV/AIDS, book published by the World Bank
  • NetAid, HIV/AIDS
  • The World Bank's Global HIV/AIDS Program of Action
  • National Center for Health Statistics, AIDS/HIV
  • World Aids Campaign, 2005 Projects
  • The World Bank Group, Confronting AIDS
  • AVERT, Children, HIV & AIDS
  • Doctors Without Borders Press Release: Drug Companies Leave Children With AIDS To Fend For Themselves: Without Proper Tests and Drugs, Millions of Children Will Not Live To See Their Second Birthday
  • Institute of Science in Society, FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals
  • Nigerians sue Pfizer over test deaths
  • AIDS Activists: Drug Companies 'Inflicting Holocaust On The Poor', by Alex Duval Smith in Durban
  • South African citizens cheap drug guinea pigs
  • The True Story of How Multinational Drug Companies Took Liberties with African Lives
  • World AIDS Campaign, Media and Visuals

HUMAN RIGHTS: back to top

  • Amnesty USA
  • Human Security Center
  • View Conflicts
  • Regional Consultation for the UN Study on Violence Against Children
  • UNICEF, Beyond Child Labor, Affirming Rights
  • The United Nations Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children
  • Unicef, Child Trafficking Handbook
  • Global Issues.org, Human Rights for All
  • Global Issues.org, Child Human Rights Abuses
  • UNICEF, Information Sheets on Child Protection
  • Human Rights Watch, Armed Conflict
  • One World
  • Human Rights Watch Children's Page
  • Child Soldiers Organization
  • UN Study on Violence Against Children
  • UN Resources on Child Protection
  • Child Rights Information Network
  • International Rescue Committee, Darfur Poster
  • International Rescue Committee
  • Global Issues.org, Geopolitics
  • Global Issues.org, Africa
  • Global Issues.org, Children
  • US State Dept. Report Documenting Atrocities in Darfur
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum Bearing Witness for Darfur
  • Refugees International
  • Africa Action Campaign to Stop Genocide in Darfur
  • Darfur Genocide.org

ARMS TRADE: back to top

  • Lord of War movie
  • Control Arms.org, Arms Without Borders
  • World Food Programme Photo Gallery
  • Global Issues.org, Arms Trade
  • Global Issues.org, Arms Control
  • Global Issues.org, Expansion
  • Control Arms.org, The Issues
  • Hotzone.yahoo.com

AMERICAN POVERTY: back to top

  • Joel Katz, Understanding Cost of Living & Poverty
  • OECD List of US Reports
  • Food Research & Action Center Hunger in the US
  • Feeding Children Better.org
  • Center of Hunger.org
  • MSNBC, You can help improve the needy's nutritition, by Karen Collins
  • Center on Hunger.org, Projects
  • ALTERNET, An Unhappy Anniversary (Hurricane Katrina)
  • Second Harvest.org
  • Children's Defense Fund
  • Child Stats.gov, Forum on Child and Family Statistics
  • National Coalition for the Homeless
  • US Census
  • Center on Hunger
  • Food Research & Action Center, Hunger in America and Its Solutions
  • CDC Health Statistics
  • Sound Vision, Statistics of Poverty & Food Wastage in the US
  • Hoover Institute, The Mismeasure of Poverty
  • Hunger in America.org
  • US Census Report: Income, Poverty & Health Insurance 2005
  • US Dept of Labor Consumer Expenditure Survey
  • National Relief Charities, American Indian Communities
  • Child Welfare League of America, National Fact Sheet 2006
  • Urban Promise

NEWBURYPORT, MA: back to top

  • National Center for Children in Poverty MASS Statistics
  • MBTA.com
  • Newburyport White/Yellow Pages Newburyport Poverty, Individual
  • US Census Bureau, Newburyport 2000 Census
  • City of Newburyport.com
  • Merrimack Valley.info, Newburyport
  • MA Dept of Revenue
  • Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce
  • Planetizen

NEWBURYPORT NEWS ONLINE: back to top

  • Town Online.com, Newburyport
  • Newburyport News.com

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