Topic: Poverty and hunger
UN chief urges member states to rebalance military spending and development needs
Report / 10th September 2025A new report from the United Nations urges member states to rebalance military spending and development priorities.
Confronting alarming food insecurity trends in Africa: An expert’s view
Blog / 10th September 2025Food insecurity trends in Africa are alarming, yet current financial flows are insufficient to bridge the significant funding gap and reach all communities in need. An interview with Gilbert Phiri from the IFRC.
Rich countries meet only 4% of funds East Africa needs to address climate change
Report / 8th September 2025Rich countries have broken their climate finance promises to a key grouping of eight highly vulnerable African countries, according to new research from Oxfam.
If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?
Blog / 1st September 2025Even if AI's promise of material abundance is realised, will it be rightly shared? By Ben Spies-Butcher for the Conversation
Brazil beats hunger
Blog / 30th July 2025Today, Brazil is officially removed from the UN Hunger Map – after lifting over 40 million people out of food insecurity in just two years, the UN confirms.
Slight decrease in global hunger as inequalities widen, UN report reveals
News / 29th July 2025An interagency group from the UN have released the flagship 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, estimating a global, yet uneven, decline in hunger since 2022.
Stop Israel’s dystopian ‘humanitarian city’ plan—before it’s too late
Blog / 14th July 2025The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the world will once again let it happen, writes Medea Benjamin for Common Dreams.
No fuel, no aid, no escape: UN agencies warn of looming collapse in Gaza
News / 14th July 2025The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement.
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.
Want to end poverty? Then reduce inequality
Blog / 27th June 2025New World Bank numbers show 125 million more people living in extreme poverty than previously thought, writes Max Lawson for Equals.