Topic: Poverty and hunger
Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s
Article / 22nd June 2020The global pandemic could push half a billion people into deeper poverty on some counts and lead to a new COVID-19 apartheid era, warn Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez in The Conversation.
The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots
Blog / 22nd June 2020The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global inequalities by decades, writes Martin Drewry for the New Internationalist.
'Unimaginable double emergency': Record high of nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced worldwide amid pandemic
News / 19th June 2020"These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on the human cost of war, and the social and economic implications exacerbated by Covid-19." By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams.
World faces worst food crisis for at least 50 years, UN warns
News / 10th June 2020The world stands on the brink of a food crisis worse than any seen for at least 50 years, the UN has warned as it urged governments to act swiftly to avoid disaster.
Spain rekindles a radical idea: a Europe-wide minimum income
News / 7th June 2020With Europe facing the greatest social challenge in its history since the second world war, ministers from Spain, Italy and Portugal are calling for a common EU approach to a minimum income.
Achieving social justice on an overpopulated planet
Blog / 5th June 2020Only through a peaceful mass movement on a global scale, putting the needs of the poorest first and foremost, will we finally set foot on the road to a more equal, sustainable and inclusive future, writes Sonja Scherndl.
Act now or risk ‘unimaginable devastation’ globally, warns UN chief
News / 29th May 2020Unless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a virtual high-level meeting on financing for development.
Malnutrition leading cause of death and ill health worldwide – report
Report / 13th May 2020An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle malnutrition, a “threat multiplier” that is now the leading cause of ill health and deaths globally, according to new analysis.
People in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system
Article / 7th May 2020Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities, writes Meera Karunananthan for openDemocracy.