Labour MP Stephen Timms received a letter from from an eight year-old girl explaining how her life has become increasingly difficult with falling living standards and her family struggling to make ends meet.
One of Britain’s wealthiest boroughs is the new centre of the homelessness epidemic after admitting it will spend a record £41.8m housing families in temporary accommodation this year.
In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are hampered by a force that is tough to measure: Fear.
In his re-election speech President Obama spoke about his commitment to addressing issues of poverty, inequality and progression but what is the current situation like and what are we doing to change it? During the week of 25-30 November the BBC, together with 66 other international broadcasters will show us through means of eight top quality documentary films.
The lethal force used by police at a Lonmin mine in Marikana, South Africa which resulted in 34 dead and 78 injured has caused many in South Africa to re-evaluate their country and the inequality found within.