Topic: Inequality
What Covid-19 can teach us about a sustainable future
Blog / 19th February 2021The climate crisis is set to bear the same hallmarks of inequality, whereby the world’s poorest are expected to suffer most. This is why just transitions are such an integral part of climate action, writes Elaine Burke.
The Earth does not belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
Article / 12th February 2021The new U.S. administration should begin with an honest accounting of the abundance so unequally hoarded in the nation's coffers, followed by a plan to share it more fairly. By Rev Dr Liz Theoharis for TomDispatch.
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm on inequality that everyone can hear
Blog / 29th January 2021As billionaire wealth soars during the pandemic, we may have seen the greatest ever single-year redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy. Influencers worldwide need to be sounding the alarm, writes Sam Pizzigati.
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.
Millions on the brink of starvation as the pandemic exacerbates world hunger
Article / 22nd January 2021David Beasley of the World Food Program and Henrietta Fore of UNICEF discuss the enormous challenge of feeding the world's hungry in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Global wealth inequality
Article / 18th January 2021The past year has seen one of the greatest transfers of wealth in history. Around the world, as more and more working-class people slip into debt, or are facing eviction, or have burned through their savings to stay afloat during the pandemic, the world’s ~3,000 billionaires are billions richer.
2.7 billion people did not get state aid during pandemic
Report / 17th December 2020The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it have hit millions of people hard, with poverty set to increase sharply in almost every country for the first time in decades unless action is taken now, according to a new report by Oxfam.
Covid-19 vaccines are being hoarded by rich countries – poor ones are missing out
News / 16th December 2020Lost among the jubilation of vaccine rollouts in rich countries is an uncomfortable reality: The world's poorest countries will have to wait months and possibly years to see any doses at all.
Human Rights Day: The fight for rights goes on for food and housing
Blog / 13th December 2020Campaigners are calling for a right to food and a right to housing to be given legal backing in the UK for the first time, writes Liam Geraghty for the Big Issue.
Towards a rights-based economy: Putting people and the planet first
Report / 10th December 2020A joint report by the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and Christian Aid asks a radical question: what would it look like if we had an econmomy based on human rights?