Topic: Poverty and hunger
UN issues $100m emergency funding and calls for global effort to avert famine
News / 19th November 2020The UN has earmarked $100m (£75m) in emergency funding for seven countries deemed at risk of famine, warning that without immediate action the world could see “huge numbers of children dying on TV screens”.
Studies on the principle of sharing
Report / 13th November 2020These seven articles were originally published over the course of 2011 to 2014, during the momentous revolutionary period that followed the global financial crisis. But the vision within this collection of writings goes far beyond that single historical moment and has even greater relevance and urgency today.
New book release: Studies on the principle of sharing
Blog / 13th November 2020Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have now released a book version of the popular articles by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled ‘Studies on the Principle of Sharing’.
Contribution to GTI Forum: Has the time come for a universal basic income?
Blog / 12th November 2020In a forum discussion by The Great Transition Initiative, two panels debate the question: Should a UBI be a central element of strategies for transformation? The following is a contribution from STWR.
Over 1,000 health professionals call for G20 to cancel developing countries’ debt
News / 11th November 2020Over 1,000 health professionals from 66 countries have signed a letter urging the G20 to cancel the debt of developing countries, ahead of an extraordinary G20 Finance Ministers meeting.
Why we need a new economic model centred on human rights
Blog / 9th November 2020'Amid a pandemic that has taken over a million lives, we urge the same level of imagination as the drafters of the Universal Declaration over seventy years ago.' By Gabriela Bucher and Olivier De Schutter.
Covid-19 has exposed the catastrophic impact of privatising vital services
Blog / 30th October 2020Global markets have failed to provide people with basic needs like housing and water, say present and former UN special rapporteurs.
Global poverty soars as incomes of world’s billionaires hit new highs
Blog / 16th October 2020The phenomenal rise in extreme poverty -– for the first time in 20 years — has been accompanied by an upsurge in the incomes of the world’s billionaires and the super-rich.
World Food Program awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work during pandemic
News / 12th October 2020The Nobel prize for the United Nations World Food Programme turns an important spotlight on the millions who go hungry around the world and on the devastating consequences of conflict.
Extreme poverty to rise for first time in more than 20 years due to COVID-19, World Bank warns
News / 8th October 2020Global poverty is expected to rise for the first time in more than 20 years this year as the pandemic compounds the impacts of conflicts and climate change, the World Bank has warned in a new report.