This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

Columbia was one of the many start-up studios located on " Poverty Row " in Los Angeles, and like the others, was unable to compete with the larger studios which often had their own production facilities, distribution and theaters.

Poverty was rife in the rural areas and the islands, and was eased only by large-scale emigration to the United States.

Poverty has steadily decreased in 18 % since 2004, when nearly half the country's population was under the poverty line.

Heinlein was active in Upton Sinclair's socialist End Poverty in California movement in the early 1930s.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. in 1971 as a law firm to handle anti-discrimination cases in the United States.

The year 1996 was designated the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Poverty was often the main factor in decision to cohabit.

In 2011, the group published an evaluation report titled " Assessing the IFC's Poverty Focus and Results " in which it noted that although the IFC's projects that emphasized inclusive growth patterns performed well and that poverty reduction was an implicit outcome, the IFC neglected to articulate and detail the impacts on poverty of the projects which target economic growth specifically.

Johnson was greatly supported by the Democratic Party and as President, he was responsible for designing the " Great Society " legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his " War on Poverty.

The centerpiece of the War on Poverty was the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which created an Office of Economic Opportunity ( OEO ) to oversee a variety of community-based antipoverty programs.

They then invited the situationists to contribute a critique of the University of Strasbourg, and On the Poverty of Student Life, written by Tunisian situationist Mustapha / Omar Khayati was the result.

He was also active in the " Make Poverty History " campaign during early 2005, in the lead-up to the G8 summit in Scotland, and is the patron for UK-based charity Street Child Africa.

Also, the " Poverty Montage " was scheduled to take three hours to film, but instead took seven hours.

The Year Without a Summer ( also known as the Poverty Year, The Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death ) was the year 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0. 4 – 0. 7 ° C ( 0. 7 – 1. 3 ° F ), resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.

Poverty was widespread and people began to leave the county in droves.

Archeologists have determined that the site was built in the Late Archaic period beginning about 1500 BCE, and it was the central trading grounds for the Poverty Point culture, people who called the lower Mississippi River Valley home.

It was located less than a mile from the Poverty Point site.

He was appointed by New York Mayor John Lindsay to head the Commission Against Poverty.

* Poverty reduction through productive activities ;

# Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger: From 1990 through 2004, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty fell from almost a third to less than a fifth.

Even smaller production houses, known as Poverty Row studios, made films whose costs might run as low as $ 3, 000, seeking a profit through whatever bookings they could pick up in the gaps left by the larger concerns.

Second, it is believed that social outcomes can only be improved by reducing income poverty ( known as Capability Expansion through Poverty Reduction ).

Systems of government are dynamic and they are bound to change in accordance with the wishes of and aspirations of the people ... During my term of office, I selflessly dedicated myself to the good cause of Mother Malawi in the fight against Poverty, Ignorance and Disease among many other issues ; but if within the process, those who worked in my government or through false pretence in my name or indeed unknowingly by me, pain and suffering was caused to anybody in this country in the name of nationhood, I offer my sincere apologies.

Standing for End Poverty in California, EPIC was an effort for well-known muckraking writer and former Socialist Upton Sinclair to implement socialist reforms through California's Democratic Party during the Great Depression by recruiting supporters into the party and then securing that party's nomination for the 1934 California gubernatorial election.

Walkyier led Skyclad through the release of numerous albums, notably Prince of the Poverty Line, before quitting, apparently frustrated by financial and management decisions made by other band members.

* Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops ' Development in Asia and the Pacific ( CAPSA )

The World Bank and IMF require countries to produce a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper as a condition for debt relief through the HIPC initiative and other monetary aid, as do several bilateral donors.

In Wealth and Poverty Gilder extended the sociological and anthropological analysis of his early books in which he had advocated for the socialization of men into service to women through work and marriage.

Entering King County it winds on top of the bluff along the south shore of Poverty Bay through Federal Way until connecting with State Route 99.

In early 1865 emissaries carrying the smoke-dried decapitated heads were sent from Taranaki to chief Hirini Te Kani at Poverty Bay via Wanganui and Taupo in two parties – one via Rotorua, Whakatane, Opotiki, and East Cape, and the other through the centre of the island via Ruatahuna and Wairoa.

The marchers had been asked to wear white to make a symbolic ring of white through the city, matching the Make Poverty History white wristband.

Tolson first came to national attention through the Grassroots Craftsmen, an initiative of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty that helped Appalachian craftspeople to sell their works.

He authored or co-authored several international bestsellers, including: Competing for the Future ( with Gary Hamel, 1994 ), The Future of Competition ( with Venkat Ramaswamy, 2004 ), and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits ( Wharton School Publishing, 2004 ).

Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty, produced in 2005, explored the business of Microcredit through eleven providers of the service.

The foundation administers funds through four programs — Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area, and Pathways out of Poverty, and it also funds special exploratory projects.

UNGEI streamlines its efforts through the strategic use of existing mechanisms such as Poverty Reduction Strategies, sector-wide approaches and UN development assistance frameworks.

Oxfam Canada generates funds for its operations through a number of fundraising campaigns in Canada, including its fundraising telethon, the ' Stamp Out Poverty ' program which collects and sells postage stamps, its charitable giving catalogue ‘ Oxfam Unwrapped ’, as well as the Canadian version of ‘ Oxfam Trailwalker ’, a pledge-based endurance marathon.

As an aid organization, UMCOR addresses these problems through their World Hunger / Poverty program.

Poverty forced him to drop out of school at an early age and work at various odd jobs, including as a vacuum cleaner salesman and an agricultural labourer.

Poverty and agricultural change, decline and industrial progress elsewhere has always made Radnorshire a place of net emigration.