Topic: Poverty and hunger
Top five arms exporters hit yearly sales of $85 billion as 9,000 people die from conflict-driven hunger every day
Blog / 9th June 2023Global military spending reached $2.2 trillion last year, enough to cover the UN appeal for global humanitarian needs more than 42 times.
Acute hunger an ‘immediate threat’ to over a quarter of a billion people
Article / 19th May 2023The global fight against hunger is going backwards as the world faces a food crisis of unprecendented proportions, the largest in modern history.
Amid soaring poverty and hunger, Amnesty demands ‘universal social protection’ worldwide
Report / 12th May 2023As poverty rises amid intertwining crises, Amnesty International have issued an urgent call for governments worldwide to implement universal social protections to ensure that basic necessities are available to all.
In famine, ‘f’ is for failure
Blog / 27th April 2023A person dies of hunger every 30 seconds in East Africa, where famine is looming for the third time in little more than a decade. It does not have to be this way, write Fati N’zi Hassane and Reena Ghelani.
Research shows poverty is 4th leading cause of death in US
Blog / 21st April 2023New research estimates that poverty was linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the US in 2019, making inadequate income the nation's fourth-leading mortality driver that year behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking.
Rich countries increasingly the recipients of their own aid, according to OECD DAC data
Blog / 21st April 2023Rich countries continue to be the recipients of large amounts of their own aid, according to new statistics released today by the OECD Development Assistance Committee.
New report highlights deep harms of IMF ‘austerity drive’ in poor nations
Report / 17th April 2023"For every $1 the IMF encouraged a set of poor countries to spend on public goods, it has told them to cut four times more through austerity measures," says Oxfam.
Most African governments (3 in 4) spend more on arms than feeding their people
Article / 16th March 2023The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.
Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally
Report / 3rd March 2023The number of children without access to social protection is increasing year-on-year, leaving them at risk of poverty, hunger and discrimination, according to a new report released by the ILO and UNICEF.
‘Ticking time bombs’ for the world’s most vulnerable children
Article / 23rd February 2023Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II. By Baher Kamal for IPS News.