Poor pushed aside as corporates pocket pandemic funds in developing countries
Report / 2nd June 2021Large corporations, rather than ordinary people, have been the main beneficiaries of Covid bailout funds in many lower-income countries.
Covid-19 and fragile states: Deaths underreported, health services overwhelmed and famine looming
Report / 5th March 2021The coronavirus pandemic is pushing people in fragile states towards catastrophe, with hunger levels rising dramatically and famine looming in several countries, an in-depth report by the Disasters Emergency Committee’s coalition of leading UK aid agencies.
Mega-rich recoup COVID-losses in record-time yet billions will live in poverty for at least a decade
Report / 25th January 2021The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just nine months, but it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, reveals Oxfam.
‘Ecological Ponzi scheme’ threatens to bring down humanity, scientists warn
Report / 18th January 2021Accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption are swiftly pushing human societies toward a “ghastly future” of growing hunger, political division and societal breakdown, say leading scientists.
New initiative launched to ‘Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety’
Report / 22nd December 2020A project by Tipping Point North South works to put sustainable human safety at the heart of 21st century foreign, defence, security and international development policy-making.