POVERTY RESOURCE
Poverty Resources
The databases and gateways listed below are excellent sources of all poverty-related information, and "The Basics" are essential reference points for any poverty activist.
The Basics
- “The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006”, published by the UN (pdf)
- The Millennium Development Goals
- “The Progress of Canada’s Children and Youth 2006” guide, published by the CCSD (pdf)
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Databases & Gateways
- The Eldis Gateway to Development Information
- ZNet: a community of people dedicated to social change
- Medecins Sans Frontieres advocacy content
- Kaiser Family Foundation (An excellent resource for health policy information)
- Causes of poverty and poverty facts & statistics, from the Global Issues Database
Links to Other Organizations
- The Poverty and Human Rights Centre
- ActionAid International
- Save the Children
- The Stephen Lewis Foundation
- Make Poverty History UK
- Make Poverty History Canada
- The ONE Campaign
- Engineers Without Borders
- OXFAM
- United Nations
- First UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
- UNDP poverty reduction
- UNICEF
- World Bank: PovertyNet
- The Anti-Poverty Campaign
- The Darfur/Sudan Peace Network
- The Crowning Glory
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