Old-Age Poverty

opinionBy Tee NgugiTwo years ago, an elderly Kenyan woman, back home from a visit to her children and grandchildren living in a European country, told eager relatives and friends her impressions of that first-time visit. I was curious to hear what she would …

A prisoner of war during the World War Two bombing of Dresden has blasted the BBC for axing free licences for £3.7million over-75s, calling the decision an insult to veterans 'just days after we were being 'patted on the back' over D-Day.  Victor Gregg, 99, …

Megan K. Stack had reported on war in dozens of countries, but it was inside the confines of her own home, she says, that she was radicalized. She quotes Adrienne Rich in the authors note of her raw and unshrinking new memoir Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Wo…

Half a million Australians aged 50 and over lost their homes in the first decade of this century. Shutterstock The number of mature age Australians carrying mortgage debt into retirement is soaring. And on average each mature age Australian with a mortgage de…

Thank you, Helen Zille and Thuli Madonsela. It is wonderful to read thoughtful ideas and this provoked real thinking on my part. I think one finds privilege in every part of society: schools, clubs, governments, among old people and children, but this is …

THE CHIEF of Madhogarh, a picturesque village nestled beneath a 17th-century fortified palace in the heart of Rajasthan, came to Indra Sharma three years ago to ask if she would attend a workshop. Something about the internet, Ms Sharma, a 40-year-old child-c…

common wealth and collective power

Shakespeare is in New Mexico. Tombstone, in Arizona. Both are old mining towns near the U.S.-Mexico border. They came into existence in the eighteen-seventies, during the silver strike, but soon suffered the same fate as most of the other mining towns in the …

Maude Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, delivered the following remarks Thursday at the Seventh Annual Tommy Douglas Institute at George Brown College in Toronto. Her keynote speech explores the interconnections between poverty and pop…

Recently I spent half day BSing (breeze-shooting, obviously) about future trends and challenges for international Blue Sky, Breeze Shoot, or something else? organizations like Oxfam. Confession: were supposed to hate these, but often theyre really fun. A t…