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About 1,000 to 3,000 Nigerians applied for asylum over the past ten years. However, these numbers do vary significantly by the year. Compared to the total number of people that apply for asylum in South Africa, these numbers only represent a minority of total asylum seekers to the country, which include people from Somalia, Ethiopia and the ...
ActionAid integrates women's rights into all of its programming and project work, but also undertakes campaigns that focus specifically on these issues.. Notable examples have included raising awareness about unpaid care work [13] [14] and sexual harassment [15] and violence [16] (including acid attacks [17]) in Bangladesh, offering free cancer tests to women in Nigeria who could not afford ...
A 2010 study published by the University of Johannesburg, showed that 61% of disabled people living in the 8 poorest wards in Johannesburg were not accessing the state's disability grant due to various reasons, including not knowing that the grant existed. [26]
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, a housing crisis in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, has grown worse, as big businesses moved out of the inner city into ...
Johannesburg (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / joh-HAN-iss-burg, US also /-ˈ h ɑː n-/- HAHN-, Afrikaans: [jʊəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli [ɛˈɡɔːli]) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") [12] [13] is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people in the City of Johannesburg alone.
Khanya College is an independent non-governmental organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1986, the primary aim of Khanya College is to assist various constituencies within working class and poor communities to respond to the challenges posed by the forces of economic and political globalisation. The motto of the ...
The social determinants of health in poverty describe the factors that affect impoverished populations' health and health inequality. Inequalities in health stem from the conditions of people's lives, including living conditions, work environment, age, and other social factors, and how these affect people's ability to respond to illness. [1]
The United States’ child poverty rate more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, according to data released by the Census Bureau earlier this month. The primary driver of the jump, from 4.6% to 12.4% ...