Topic: Inequality
Petition signers want Elon Musk to be ‘the richest man in town’ this Christmas
Blog / 16th December 2025... by giving nearly half of his $500 billion fortune to the children of the world.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Report / 10th December 2025Just 0.001% of the world’s population control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to the latest World Inequality Report 2026.
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Article / 10th December 2025S poglabljanjem ekonomske krize je najpomembnejša odgovornost vlad preoblikovati naše politične in ekonomske sisteme tako, da nihče ne bo umrl zaradi lakote. Toda to se ne bo nikoli zgodilo brez neprimerljivo množične podpore javnosti.
Where’s our outrage for the world’s hungry, dying poor?
Article / 9th December 2025The retreat from global development by wealthy nations is an insult to the founding vision of the United Nations. But the real problem is that so few people are standing behind the cause of sharing the world’s resources to end hunger and poverty.
G20 committee says world is facing an inequality emergency
News / 10th November 2025The G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts said the world is facing an inequality emergency.
Uneven ground: Inequality and planetary health
Article / 22nd August 2025How do we promote human wellbeing while also safeguarding our planet? To achieve both, we have no option but to drastically reduce inequality, argues Kate Pickett.
Inequality worsens planetary heating
Article / 12th August 2025The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally.
Multi-movement declaration: World must choose peace over profit, democracy over destruction
Article / 7th August 2025As the world marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Japan, organisations for peace, climate and economic justice have joined a global call for a new model of common security.
Annual Report for 2025: Share the World’s Resources
Report / 16th July 2025The case for sharing economic resources between the richest and poorest countries grew tragically stark in 2024. Read more about STWR's activities over the past year and our future plans.
Wealth of the global 1% has skyrocketed by over $33 trillion since 2015
Report / 28th June 2025An Oxfam report estimates that the richest 1% globally have seen their wealth surge by more than $33.9 trillion over the past decade, with just 3,000 billionaires accounting for $6.5 trillion of that increase.