If current trends continue, the world’s poor may not achieve a single development goal by 2030
Blog / 22nd June 2023Eight years after the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world’s low-income countries have struggled to achieve even a single goal.
110 million now forcibly displaced as war, climate crisis wreak global havoc
Blog / 16th June 2023‘The 46 least developed countries account for less than 1.3% of global gross domestic product, yet they hosted more than 20% of all refugees,’ a new report by the United Nations shows.
Top five arms exporters hit yearly sales of $85 billion as 9,000 people die from conflict-driven hunger every day
Blog / 9th June 2023Global military spending reached $2.2 trillion last year, enough to cover the UN appeal for global humanitarian needs more than 42 times.
Reshaping multilateralism in times of crises
Blog / 16th May 2023A new report – Spotlight on Global Multilateralism – offers critical analyses and presents recommendations for strengthening democratic multilateral structures and policies.
In famine, ‘f’ is for failure
Blog / 27th April 2023A person dies of hunger every 30 seconds in East Africa, where famine is looming for the third time in little more than a decade. It does not have to be this way, write Fati N’zi Hassane and Reena Ghelani.