A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Nearly two-thirds of children lack access to welfare safety net, risking ‘vicious cycle of poverty’
News / 8th February 2019More than six in 10 children globally lack access to social protection, leaving them particularly vulnerable to falling into chronic poverty, reports the UN, warning also that some governments are cutting State cash entitlements amid continuing economic uncertainty.
Ending poverty is possible, but it means facing up to inequality – within and between countries
Article / 30th January 2019World leaders have committed to ending poverty everywhere for all people by 2030. Achieving this aim means facing up to the need for dramatic declines in inequalities – in income, in opportunity, in exposure to risk, across gender, between countries and within countries – over the next decade.
Link between conflict and hunger worldwide, ‘all too persistent and deadly’, says new UN report
News / 30th January 2019Conflict-driven hunger is getting worse, according to a snapshot of the eight places in the world with the highest number of people in need of emergency food support, and the link between them is “all too persistent and deadly” according to a new report delivered to the UN Security Council.
Davos attendees must accept that they have too much money
Blog / 30th January 2019A global gathering of world elites is taking place in Davos, Switzerland, this week, claiming—as it does every year—to “define priorities and shape global, industry and regional agendas.”
Share The World’s Resources: A panel event at Cambridge University
Event / Monday, 28th January 2019Share The World’s Resources is teaming up with Cambridge Homeless Outreach Programme and Cambridge University Amnesty International to outline the case for achieving the United Nation’s longstanding vision of “better standards of life in larger freedom”.