Malta Daily Poverty Special Edition

It’s the last chance to save the world’s poor says a UN report as world leaders prepare to meet in New York next week. As 175 heads of state and government will be meting next week in the UN General Assembly, thousands will be dying of malnutrition, poverty and AIDS/HIV at the same time.

The Poverty Special Edition is a series of articles and features in the run-up to the U.N. Summit which, amongst other topics on the agenda, will be reviewing the world’s progress on the Millennium Development Goals: a set of eight objectives aimed at creating a more humane world by 2015. These articles focus on the issue of poverty and what action is being taken to solve the problem. A number of articles also focus on poverty in Europe and what is being done by Malta and Europe to alleviate the problem in the European Continent and worldwide.