Topic: Poverty and hunger
If Martin Luther King were alive today his radicalism wouldn’t be celebrated
Blog / 19th January 2022If MLK lived today, he would not be celebrated for staunchly opposing wealth inequality and poverty, or for his Poor People's Campaign that demanded a better life for all Americans through nonviolent protest and mutual aid.
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.
The poor die from COVID while the rich get richer, Oxfam warns
Report / 17th January 2022The coronavirus vaccine divide is costing lives and supercharging inequalities worldwide, a new report from Oxfam warns.
The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrong
Blog / 14th January 2022This is the new world order revealed at its most selfish and morally defective: countries trapped in a geopolitics that puts military and economic sanctions before food for the hungry, writes Gordon Brown.
New book: The Sharing Economy by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi
Blog / 12th January 2022STWR have published a book of the classic text by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled ‘The Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart’.
More than half a billion people pushed or pushed further into extreme poverty due to health care costs
Report / 14th December 2021New evidence compiled by the World Health Organization and the World Bank shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health Coverage.
Emergency aid needs set to rise by 17% to assist 274 million, UN humanitarians warn
News / 14th December 2021A total of 274 million people worldwide will need emergency aid and protection in 2022, a 17 per cent increase compared with this year, the UN has reported.
Global inequality ‘as marked as it was at peak of western imperialism’
Report / 10th December 2021Global inequality is as marked as it was in the early 20th century pinnacle of western imperialism after the capture by the super-rich of an increasing share of the world’s income, a new report has shown.
The sharing economy: Inaugurating an age of the heart
Report / 7th December 2021The sharing economy represents the end of the old ways defined by the pursuit of profit and competitive self-interest, while a new age of intergovernmental sharing and cooperation can only begin through the channel of ending hunger in a world that has such an abundance of financial capital and available resources.
Global manifesto for public services
Article / 26th October 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has cast into stark relief the consequences of decades of privatisation and commercialisation of essential public services. Join the growing movement to build public services as part of a just recovery.