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Clean water is a finite resource around the world that many say should be viewed as a basic human right.

Ensuring access to safe drinking water is one the greatest challenges facing the world. Inventions such as the Life Straw could be life saving solution for millions.

People all over the world broke a Guinness record for the largest number of people opposing world poverty.

Charitable gift giving has become popular in recent years. Here's three charity gift ideas to conserve wildlife, help families with autism, and provide clean water.

Master Communications' If the World Were a Village, based on the award-winning kids book by David J. Smith, is well-intentioned but comes off as patronizing. 6/10.

1 out of 4 Sierra Leonean children are losing their lives to easily preventable diseases driving home the urgent need for education and economic development.

Architecture for Humanity's book on innovative shelter solutions is a primer on sustainable, cost-effective design for responding to humanitarian crises.

Some 1.5 million children die from preventative infections annually despite the availability of affordable and efficient means of treatment.

Professor says that in just two decades the world will face massive upheaval because vital resources will be in short supply.

Dalits or untouchables are still considered outcasts in India and remain impoverished, discriminated against and segregated.

Suite101.com's interview with winemaker Bruce Ewert draws to a close with a brief discussion of L'Acadie Vineyard's support of charity as well as Ewert's motivation.

Middle Eastern and North African nations are home to some 5% of the world's population but own less than 1% of the Earth's potable water.

A recent poll taken in South Africa makes for an interesting read and gives an insight into what the population is dealing with on a day to day basis.

With all the buzz around Obama's health care initiative, it's important to understand the terms of the debate. Are we talking about health reform? Or insurance reform?

For most of its history Haiti has been a country of grinding poverty for the masses and wealth a luxury for a tiny elite; the result is a ruined state.

Illegal pirate fishing is destroying the economy and quality of life in Sierra Leone, a country that loses US$29 million in revenue to due theft by foreign vessels.

"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time," says U.S. economist Jeffrey D. Sachs in his milestone book "The End of Poverty".