Topic: Poverty and hunger
UN report shows mixed results in meeting SDGs
Report / 26th July 2019The United Nations launched its 2019 report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), showing inadequate progress in the fourth year into the sustainable development agenda and highlighting the need for imminent global action.
World hunger is on the rise
Blog / 25th July 2019The world already grows more than enough food to feed the world population. Why then do we keep getting it so wrong, acting like growing more commodity crops will end hunger? By Timothy A. Wise.
Income inequality reaches crisis level in West Africa
News / 10th July 2019West African Governments have been blamed for the worsening poverty and inequality levels in their countries. According to the Oxfam and Development Finance International report published Tuesday, inequality is at crisis levels in West Africa.
New campaign video: Let’s reclaim the United Nations founding vision!
Blog / 5th July 2019We recently teamed up with the team at Seven Billion Today to produce a short promotional video that summarises STWR's key campaign message for use on social media.
UN’s Development Goals remain largely elusive
Article / 26th June 2019The United Nations, in a new report to be released next month, has warned “there is no escaping the fact that the global landscape for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generally deteriorated since 2015, hindering the efforts of governments and other partners”.
Global inequality in a time of climate emergency
Article / 26th June 2019Every national campaign for tackling climate change also needs an international justice plank, because we’re not going to get anywhere near the Paris temperature targets without global sharing and cooperation, writes Tom Athanasiou for Inequality.org.
'Climate apartheid' to push 120 million into poverty by 2030, UN says
News / 26th June 2019The world is facing a "climate apartheid" between the rich who can protect themselves and the poor who are left behind, the UN has warned in a new report.
‘Everybody has the right to live’: The visionary budget at the heart of our moral uprising
Report / 19th June 2019Basic living standards like adequate housing, health care, education, safe drinking water, and access to work and fair wages are rights, not privileges. A moral society will guarantee these to ALL people, write Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev Dr Liz Theoharis.
World’s displacement crises worsened by lack of funds, political will or media attention
Report / 7th June 2019The world’s 10 most under reported displacement crises— which have rendered millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of media attention, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Nearly half of all child deaths in Africa stem from hunger, study shows
News / 5th June 2019One in three African children are stunted and hunger accounts for almost half of all child deaths across the continent, an Addis Ababa-based thinktank has warned.