A child under 15 dies every five seconds around the world – UN report
News / 25th September 2018An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes, according to new mortality estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group.
World Bank reports slower progress on extreme poverty
News / 25th September 2018The war in Syria and a population surge in sub-Saharan Africa have undermined efforts to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty, the World Bank has said.
The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
News / 17th September 2018‘Today, solving social problems within European nations does not require more growth – it requires a fairer distribution of the income and wealth that we already have.’ 238 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP.
Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says
News / 11th September 2018New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 released today.
Extreme hunger could kill 600,000 children in war zones this year
News / 10th September 2018More than half a million children in conflict zones could die from extreme hunger before the end of the year, new research by Save the Children shows.