Covid vaccines create 9 new billionaires with combined wealth greater than cost of vaccinating world’s poorest countries
News / 21st May 2021At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines are making.
Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high
News / 5th May 2021The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, according to the findings of an annual report by the Global Network Against Food Crises.
The WTO’s own policies have caused its existential crisis, which the COVID-19 crisis only amplified
News / 30th April 2021Over 200 organisations from 67 countries call for the transformation of the WTO into a completely new framework for international trade that is fit for the 21st century – which means it puts people and the planet first.
Governments should give single day's military spending to fight hunger
News / 21st April 2021Aid organisations call on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger. Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help most at risk.
Second edition of STWR's flagship book now available: ‘Heralding Article 25’
News / 31st March 2021Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have released a revised second edition of the campaigning book by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled ‘Heralding Article 25: A people’s strategy for world transformation’.