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The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots

Blog / 22nd June 2020

The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global inequalities by decades, writes Martin Drewry for the New Internationalist.

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Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

Article / 22nd June 2020

The global pandemic could push half a billion people into deeper poverty on some counts and lead to a new COVID-19 apartheid era, warn Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez in The Conversation.

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'Unimaginable double emergency': Record high of nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced worldwide amid pandemic

News / 19th June 2020

“These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on the human cost of war, and the social and economic implications exacerbated by Covid-19.” By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams.

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World protests show rising outrage and mounting discontent

Article / 13th June 2020

Despite the coronvirus pandemic, we are experiencing a continuation of rising outrage and street protests throughout the world. Governments need to listen to the demands from citizens legitimately protesting the denial of social, economic and civil rights, write Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke and Hernan Cortes Saenz for IPS news.

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World faces worst food crisis for at least 50 years, UN warns

News / 10th June 2020

The world stands on the brink of a food crisis worse than any seen for at least 50 years, the UN has warned as it urged governments to act swiftly to avoid disaster.

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