Topic: Poverty and hunger
The Iran war Is breaking global humanitarian aid efforts
Article / 13th March 2026The war in Iran has triggered severe global economic disruption, choking off disaster relief supply chains and spiking oil prices—further exacerbating existing humanitarian crises.
$1 billion a day for war in Iran could help every American family who needs healthcare and food stamps
Blog / 9th March 2026The Trump administration - backed by several members of Congress - is cutting healthcare and food assistance for millions of families while spending $1 billion a day on a war in Iran.
‘What did these Cuban children do?’: US embargo blamed as infant mortality soars
Article / 13th February 2026Infant mortality is on the rise in Cuba as the Trump administration tightens a decades-long economic embargo on the island nation in hopes of toppling a socialist government that’s outlasted a dozen US presidents.
Ignoring China’s poverty alleviation success is costing us all
Article / 4th February 2026China’s poverty alleviation success is nothing short of a miracle. In today’s age of deepening global inequality, we cannot afford to continue ignoring methods proven capable of producing real, large-scale improvements in people’s lives.
A child under five could die every forty seconds by 2030 due to U.S. aid cuts
Report / 16th January 2026The series of cruel and illegal cuts to U.S. lifesaving humanitarian and development aid has already cost lives and undermined the entire global aid system.
Skyrocketing military spending undermines development aid to world’s poor
Article / 8th January 2026The statistics are staggering: while military spending keeps skyrocketing, Official Development Assistance from the rich to some of the world’s poorer nations has been declining drastically.
Klic k pravičnosti
Article / 10th December 2025S poglabljanjem ekonomske krize je najpomembnejša odgovornost vlad preoblikovati naše politične in ekonomske sisteme tako, da nihče ne bo umrl zaradi lakote. Toda to se ne bo nikoli zgodilo brez neprimerljivo množične podpore javnosti.
Where’s our outrage for the world’s hungry, dying poor?
Article / 9th December 2025The retreat from global development by wealthy nations is an insult to the founding vision of the United Nations. But the real problem is that so few people are standing behind the cause of sharing the world’s resources to end hunger and poverty.
Ending world hunger costs less than 1% of military spending
News / 20th November 2025Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN's World Food Programme.
US and European aid cuts could result in 22.6 million deaths worldwide, study finds
News / 19th November 2025Abrupt cuts to development aid by major donor countries could cause up to 22.6 million additional deaths in developing countries by 2030, according to a new study.