Topic: Inequality
Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it
Article / 18th February 2025Measures to address world hunger must start with its known causes and proven policies, not just 'moonshot' technological innovations, writes Jennifer Clapp.
Is it time to phase out international laws, conventions, accords, summits…?
Article / 3rd February 2025The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges. But the sad truth is that its been clamorously ignored for over a century, writes Baher Kamal.
Toward a better world: Building a movement for social justice in a time of peril
Article / 24th January 2025This is no time to blame those who are going to be hurt by Trump’s draconian policies. We need a coordinated series of campaigns that could change the conditions that produce poverty for good.
Billionaire wealth surges to ‘unimaginable’ levels in 2024 as Oxfam predicts emergence of five trillionaires within a decade
Report / 21st January 2025Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, as the world’s richest people increasingly benefited from inheritance and powerful connections, according to Oxfam’s latest annual inequality report.
‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says
Report / 10th January 2025The richest 1 per cent of people have already blown through their fair share of the global carbon budget for the year just 10 days into January.
A most heinous—yet unprosecuted—crime: inequality
Blog / 19th December 2024Planet Earth is drying up, relentlessly. But while such an ‘existential crisis’ affects nearly every region, guess where - and who - are the most hit?
It’s time for rich polluters to pay for the climate crisis they created
Blog / 3rd October 2024Rich countries, whose emissions have fueled the climate crisis, must step up and take the lead. It’s time for rich polluters to pay for the destruction they’ve caused, writes Hilda Flavia Nakabuye.
World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95 per cent of humanity
Report / 27th September 2024Over a third of world’s biggest 50 corporations - worth $13.3 trillion - now run by a billionaire or has billionaire as a principal shareholder, according to new analysis.
Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says
Report / 13th September 2024The Earth Commission says hope lies in sustainable lifestyles, a radical transformation of global politics and fair distribution of resources. By Jonathan Watts for the Guardian.