Providing well-tolerated, preventive TB treatment can reduce the risk of developing active TB disease by 85 per cent in the ...

New analysis finds 46 per cent of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty “I can’t buy clothes for my children, I can’t buy them shoes, I can’t buy them a single toy, I can’t buy ...

The growing controversy over potential cuts to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has sparked urgent warnings from charities ...

Several renowned economists and leaders have provided insights into the root causes of the high poverty rate in India. Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate economist, has highlighted the importance of ...

UNICEF announced in 2013 that the United States has the second-highest child poverty rate in the developed world. The United Nations dispatched a special team to analyze the “extreme poverty and ...

When the most recent figures were published, the Child Poverty Action Group warned ministers that, by relying so heavily on a single policy measure, they were unlikely to meet their targets for child ...

Nearly half of UK adults experiencing hygiene poverty are doing so for the first time this year - as the cost-of-living crisis and inflation continue to bite. Research of more than 4,000 adults ...

This tiny African state has such a vital strategic location that most of the world's most powerful militaries have set up ...

Universal Credit is also poised for change, impacting a breadth of recipients including both employed and unemployed ...

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to announce a raft of changes to the welfare system which will see more people ...

We explain all the changes which have been put forward by the Government amid plans for £6billion benefit cuts ...

International Women’s Day is this Saturday, and the theme is ‘Accelerate Action’.