Tag: Poverty
Last week’s World Bank report on Sri Lanka revealed that poverty has increased over the past four years—from 11 percent in 2019 to almost 26 percent in 2024. This means more than a quarter of the Sri Lankan population is living in poverty.
The Americans, with their IMF economic enforcers, believe in their banana republic form of democracy which has turned countries like Haiti into a Hollywood nightmare.
The European Union and its member states renewed their commitments to uphold and protect rights in 2023, but they have persistently failed to translate these commitments into practice, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024.
It’s hard to believe that hunger is still a major issue in our high-tech 21st century and, that it is an ever growing problem in “the richest nation on Earth”.
