Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New polio vaccine approved and distributed in US
VS Oveta Culp Hobby, US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare signs approval for licensing, manufacturing, and distribution of Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine; Surgeon General Dr. Leonard A. Scheele looks on; a view of her signature...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Dr. Jonas Salk receives Congressional Medal for anti-polio vaccine presented by Health Sec'y Marion Folsom
Title Card: "Dr. Jonas E. Salk - New Honors For Developer Of Polio Vaccine" / WS and CU L to R.: Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, Developer of polio vaccine; Rep. Irwin D. Davidson, D-NY; and Marion B. Folsom, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Protest in Cyprus to improve welfare standards on World Animal Day
No excuse for animal abuse," chant activists during a protest in front of the Cypriot Presidential palace in the capital Nicosia, ahead of World Animal Day on October 4th, an annual event; celebrating animal rights and welfare across the...
Bloomberg
Inequality and Disparity in Hong Kong
Nov.24 -- On this episode of "Bloomberg Equality," Fanny Cheung, senior adviser of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, looks at the inequality and disparity in the city, and the...
Sky News
UK: Conservative Party under pressure to stick with plans to bring benefits in line with inflation
VOICED: The government could be forced into a yet another U-Turn today.
Liz Truss is under pressure to stick with plans to increase Universal Credit payments in line with inflation -- rather than earnings.
Senior Tories want the PM to...
Sky News
Kidney Treatment To Change So As To Reduce Deaths
Kidney Treatment To Change So As To Reduce Deaths
Sky News
New Budget To Extend Sunday Trading Hours
VOICED: Shops could soon open for longer on Sundays as George Osborne prepares to announce in tomorrow's budget that he's relaxing trading regulations. The move which will see decision-making powers handed over to local authorities,...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : 'We are dying of hunger!': as living costs soar, Greeks protest for higher pensions
Pensioners in Greece protest for higher pensions to cope with the rising cost of living and energy prices (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
Portugal - Relieving poverty
(Duration: 12 min 17 secs/English sot: none/Portuguese sot: 3 min 04 secs)
Portugal has experienced important political, economic and social shifts in recent decades: many people have migrated from poor rural areas of the north and...
Sky News
UK Elderly Among Poorest & Loneliest in Europe
UK Elderly Among Poorest & Loneliest in Europe
Sky News
People With Degenerative Diseases Told They Will Recover Enough To Work By Welfare Assessors
People With Degenerative Diseases Told They Will Recover Enough To Work By Welfare Assessors
Sky News
Tony Blair making 'Welfare to Work' speech
CLEAN: Interior shots of Prime Minister Tony Blair making a 'welfare to work' speech at a community centre on 2 June 1997 in London, United Kingdom
Curated Video
Iceland closes gender gap but violence against women remains
It's early morning in this upper secondary school on the outskirts of Iceland's capital, Reykjavik.
Students here are attending a pioneering course on gender studies, discussing gender-based discrimination, from...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : "The Mothers of the Constitution" inform Chileans on the Convention's progress
The "Mothers of the Constitution" inform passers-by about the new highest laws and principles being drafted in Chile, which includes citizens' initiatives in defence of pensioners or to legalise marijuana and abortion (Footage by AFPTV...
Sky News
Radical reforms to pensions and social care to be announced
Radical reforms to pensions and social care to be announced
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Down Syndrome Poles take their struggles to the stage
A troupe of actors with Down Syndrome in Poland is taking the fight for disabled rights to the stage in a new play that lashes out at the right wing government accusing it of neglecting their welfare (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
Advocates for the homeless in New York City have called on city and state officials to allocate more resources to the housing authority and work to increase the minimum wage so that permanent housing is more affordable. (April 7)
SHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYNEw York, April 8, 20151. Wide, homeless rally2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Markee, Coalition for the Homeless: "We know that the current mayor inherited a homeless crisis of historic proportions,...
Curated Video
Attorneys for wrongly convicted Texas men are asking the Texas Legislature to increase compensation and to expand its offering of social services to give newly freed men a better shot at a second chance.
HEADLINE: Texas Bill would improve services to exonerees
CAPTION: Attorneys for wrongly convicted Texas men are asking the Texas Legislature to increase compensation and to expand its offering of social services to give newly freed men a...
Sky News
Thousands Of Women In The UK Are Giving Birth After Drinking More Than The Recommended Amount Of Alcohol
Thousands Of Women In The UK Are Giving Birth After Drinking More Than The Recommended Amount Of Alcohol
Curated Video
Bill, Melinda Gates Talk Trump, Foundation Pivot
Bill and Melinda Gates, as the world's top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider an unsatisfactory track record, the country's growing inequity and a president they disagree with more...
Sky News
Tony Blair making 'Welfare to Work' speech
CLEAN: Interior shots of Prime Minister Tony Blair making a 'welfare to work' speech at a community centre on 2 June 1997 in London, United Kingdom
Sky News
Conservative Party unveil a package of animal welfare measures
VOICED: The Conservative Party unveil a package of animal welfare measures.
SHOWS: Sheep in pen, hunters in Africa, cat sits on fence, Marmoset Monkeys in zoo, Golden lion tamarin monkey in zoo on a rope, ring-tailed lemur playing on a...
Sky News
Prime Minister David Cameron Defends 3 Million Kids Company Grant
VOICED: The Prime Minister has defended the government's decision to give 3 million pounds to the charity "Kids Company" a week before its closure - saying it had been right to give it "one last chance". The organisation was closed down...