Here's your chance to protect the poor, celebrate a birthday and bankrupt a professor all with a single act! https://t.co/BJfBdZdkFz — Thomas Pogge (@ThomasPogge) August 14, 2015
UN is defends its decision to revise how it measures chronic hunger
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) changed how it measures hunger in 2012, the previous method was tied to food prices. The new method does help them look better in the eyes of the public but does not fool the scholars. Pogge shared his thoughts on the issue in an interview with SciDev.Net
Room for Discussion
On Monday Sept 7th 2015 Thomas Pogge spoke at the Room for Discussion. The discussion was about Poverty, Human Rights and the Global Order:Framing the Post-2015 Agenda Portion of the work: Having spent trillions of dollars on combating the severe financial crisis of 2008–09, the affluent North Atlantic states and their citizens have found themselves constrained to … Continue reading
We have failed to protect the poor
A 2011 discussion on inequality in India with Live Mint, well i guess you could call it Politics as Usual. Pogge discusses the Indian Elite not only maintaining the status quo in India but taking it to the world stage and influencing international rules.
FAO estimates
Thomas Pogge has been quoted in Scidev.net “The FAO’s new methodology vastly understates the number of chronically undernourished populations and people” FAO stands for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It is An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union.
Where does poverty begin – and end?
Where does poverty begin – and end? is an article on The National, Thomas Pogge is on the second page. The article examines the United Nations claim that “In 15 years, extreme poverty will be a thing of the past.”. Although their number have som flaws Thomas Pogge has said that ” We can be the generation … Continue reading
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