Venezuelan children wait for a free meal at a migrant shelter set up at the Tancredo Neves Gymnasium in Brazil.
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Simone Batista, holding her baby Arthur, looks into the camera as tears roll down her cheeks while she recounts being cut from the "Bolsa Familia" government subsidy program for lo...
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Where Time Stands Still
This glimpse of a Bihar village in 2008 could well have been from a century earlier
Photograph by Jitender Gupta
A Pot To Scrape
Income is an indicator of survival chances at the poorest end
Photograph by Vijay Pandey
A demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus marches to the National Congress with a multi-pronged protest banner shaped as a Christmas tree during a protest demanding the approval of a s...
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A flood affected woman holding her baby cooks food near a temporary shelter on an embankment in Morigaon district, Assam.
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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh presenting cooking gas connection to woman living below poverty line (BPL) during the launch of "pradhan mantri ujjwala yojana" in Lucknow.
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Sonali Shetty and street children sitting outside a restaurant after they were refused service, in New Delhi.
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A homeless boy cleans a chicken's foot to prepare it for dinner collected from chicken shops near a railway track in Gauhati, Assam.
AP Photo/ Anupam Nath
A worker who lives in the street, brushes his teeth as another drinks water as they begin the day in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh
Endless Wait A widowed woman seen in her home in Lalitpur, Bundelkhand, in Uttar Pradesh
Narendra Bisht
Proof Of Hunger A woman gets food through her ration card in Orissa
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Woman with her child at Chandwa village, Jharkhand on Feb 25, 2014.
Sanjay Rawat
Streetkids sleep on a bench on a roadside pavement in Old Delhi
Sanjay Rawat
A man dressed up goddess Kali waits for alms as a municipal worker fumigates at the Kamakhya temple during the annual Ambubasi festival in Gauhati, Assam.
AP Photo/ Anupam Nath
Two young girls bathe their siblings by a public tap on a hot summer day at Badshahpur, on the outskirts of New Delhi.
AP Photo/Saurabh Das
A labourer who breaks pieces of coal for baking bricks at a brick-manufacturing unit drinks water on the outskirts of Allahabad
AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh
A labourer who breaks pieces of coal for baking bricks at a brick-manufacturing unit displays his palms on the outskirts of Allahabad.
AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, an Indian man takes rest on the bed as a woman looks on in New Delhi, India, India's Planning Commission, tasked with updating its...
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Dogs sleep near a family of migrant resting on a pavement in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015.
The report said the increase in wealth of the top 11 billionaires of India during the pandemic could sustain the rural job scheme MGNREGA for 10 years or the Health Ministry for 10 years.
Women and marginalised racial and ethnic groups are 'more likely to be pushed into poverty, more likely to go hungry, and more likely to be excluded from healthcare' in Covid aftermath
Rashford's Twitter campaign asking the Conservative government to pay for free school meals for disadvantaged students over the holidays quickly gathered steam.
The despair shown fifty years back is felt across the country today, where we see systematic witch-hunt of poets, writers, students, professors, activists and trade unionists.
The data released by UNDP and OPHI shows that 65 out of 75 countries significantly reduced their multidimensional poverty levels between 2000 and 2019.
Under a worse-case scenario, the region could suffer its sharpest downturn since a devastating currency crisis more than two decades ago, the bank said in an updated forecast released Monday.
If the poor, the underprivileged and the jobless have abandoned the liberals then it is not because the poor have become conservative but it is because the liberals have become something else.