Topic: Poverty and hunger
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.
UN food agency says 13 million Yemenis may face starvation
News / 25th February 2022The head of the U.N. food agency has warned that 13 million Yemenis are headed for starvation due to a protracted civil conflict and a lack of funding for humanitarian aid.
Food insecurity soaring across 20 hunger hotspots
Report / 25th February 2022According to the Hunger Hotspots Report from the World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remain the countries of highest concern.
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.
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.
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’.