Topic: Inequality
6 in 7 people worldwide experience ‘high levels of insecurity’ – Why?
Article / 4th March 2022Safety and security are at the base of the ‘hierarchy of needs’ pyramid, second in importance only to life’s absolute necessities—air, water, food and shelter, warns a new report from the UN Development Programme.
Pandemic of greed: A wake-up call for vaccine equity at a grim milestone
Report / 4th March 2022The COVID-19 death toll has been four times higher in lower-income countries than in rich ones, according to a new report published by Oxfam on behalf of the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
The time has come to rename "Aid"
Article / 25th February 2022Join eighteen organisations and key individuals working in the global justice sector across nineteen countries in ditching the word “aid” and replacing it with more accurate alternatives in our communications.
Global youth demand EU, UK ‘unconditionally’ back vaccine patent waiver
Blog / 21st February 2022Dozens of youth-led advocacy groups from around the world have published an open letter urging the European Union, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Switzerland to immediately end their opposition to a proposed patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines.
Pharmaceutical companies’ failure on equal vaccine access contributed to human rights catastrophe in 2021
Report / 14th February 2022Despite urgent calls to ensure the equal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, pharmaceutical companies tragically failed to rise to the challenge of a once-in-a-century global health and human rights crisis.
Delivering a Right to Food for the UK
Article / 11th February 2022The UK currently lacks a legal mechanism for enforcing the right to food. British MPs and activists are fighting for this basic right to be enshrined into law - making the government legally responsible to help anyone who is going hungry.
Energy inequality plagues the world; US causes 585 times more climate emissions than Congo
Report / 31st January 2022An analysis by the Center for Global Development reports that the average Briton produced more carbon dioxide in the first two days of January than an average person from the Democratic Republic of Congo would in an entire year.
A new international health order is within reach
Blog / 31st January 2022To end the pandemic, we need a transformative shift away from the short-termist and profit-captive model of global health governance. And Cuba is showing the way, writes Zackie Achmat.
Skupne dobrine človeštva
Report / 20th January 2022Ne moremo si resno zamisliti nove ekonomske paradigme za upravljanje skupnih zemeljskih virov brez poglobljenega razmisleka o potrebi po vsesvetovni psihološki in družbeni preobrazbi, s katero se bo zavedanje povprečnega človeka razširilo v smeri sprejemanja skupnega dobrega za celotno človeštvo.
Fully ready to kill, shockingly unprepared to save lives
Blog / 19th January 2022Just a fraction of the giant amount spent on the world's military - 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars - could meet the UN's major funding appeals for ending starvation and tackling the coronvirus pandemic, writes Baher Kamal for IPS news.