Education is another casualty of poverty. Nigeria has more than 20 million out-of-school children ... slums in Lagos and Port Harcourt to hunger-stricken villages in the North.

Rush’s family was one of the largest in the area, and she got together nearly every weekend with her six sisters and their children—eating, drinking, playing cards, catching up. But Rush ...

Eight decades ago, a steel-willed force led by figures like Zhao Yiman wrote one of the most tragic chapters in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. They were China's ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. John Swinney's 'new plan' on child poverty has been a legal requirement of ministers since 2017, leading to criticism of 'inaction' from ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. In 2017 all Holyrood’s political parties backed the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act, enshrining in law targets to cut the number of children ...

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left ...

Local charities on Teesside say they are disheartened but not surprised by child poverty figures due to what they see in their work. As reported, the latest figures from the Department for Work ...

Child poverty continues to hit Teesside harder than most of the country, new data has revealed. The figures, broken down to neighbourhood level across Teesside’s 70 electoral wards ...

Child poverty continues to hit Teesside harder than most of the country, new data has revealed. The figures, broken down to neighbourhood level across Teesside’s 70 electoral wards, show not ...

At the end of March, the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that 31 per cent of all children in the UK are living in relative poverty. That equates to a record 4.5 ...