The MPs' report follows a short inquiry undertaken amid public concern that sanctions were being imposed inappropriately, causing hardship, destitution and ill-health, and routinely forcing jobseekers to rely on food banks to survive.
While it may not be the levels of far-off destitution we're most inclined to recall, the truth is that many go without the most basic of comforts we consider intrinsic to living.
Threatening us with homelessness and destitution will not create the 2m jobs needed to deal with mass unemployment.
Modesto's hope for a better life in the city is optimistic; youth unemployment in Africa is 21% and all too often rural youth are simply met with urban destitution.
Last week MPs said the list had deprived thousands of people of work and driven some families to destitution.
But then he needs to: even the closely shepherded journalists who accompanied Mrs Albright were able to see evidence of economic collapse, destitution and hunger, in a country run like a prison camp.The West naturally wants to encourage North Korean reform and its rapprochement with the South.
Prostitution is rarer when it is not the only alternative to destitution.
In effect, that brings divorce law in England and Wales (Scotland is different) closer to America's, where prenuptial agreements are routine but can be challenged on grounds of unfairness, deceit, impending destitution or duress.
For decades, the international aid community has tried and tried again to find a way to lift the world's poor out of destitution.
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Meanwhile, the gradual weaving of a social safety-net is rescuing many Brazilians from destitution.
