Topic: Poverty and hunger
"End the age of greed": Davos week of action 19-26th January
News / 17th January 2018Members of the Fight Inequality Alliance will from January 19th to 26th, mobilise across the world to highlight the crisis of rising inequality and demand the end to the age of greed and for a more equal society. The 2018 Week of Action takes place under the theme ‘End the Age of Greed‘ and will be parallel to the annual World Economic Forum, a meeting of the world’s elite in the financial sector.
Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires
Article / 15th January 2018We must develop a new and international progressive movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class, and commits itself to tackling structural inequality both between and within nations, writes Bernie Sanders.
Extreme poverty returns to America
Blog / 9th January 2018The U.N. finds growing numbers of Americans are living in the most impoverished circumstances. How did we get here? asks Premilla Nadasen.
Unire il popolo del mondo
Article / 24th December 2017È arrivata l’ora in cui dobbiamo manifestare in milioni non contro questo o quello, ma piuttosto per chi siamo
Let’s unite and demonstrate the true meaning of Christmas
Article / 20th December 2017The holiday period provides us with a unique opportunity to express the new awareness that must inform a less commercialised and sharing-oriented world. Rather than spending all our time partaking in conspicuous consumption, why don’t we commemorate Christmas by organising massive gatherings for helping the poor and healing the environment?
"American Dream is rapidly becoming American Illusion," warns UN rights expert on poverty
Report / 18th December 2017The United States, one of the world’s richest nations and the “land of opportunity”, is fast becoming a champion of inequality, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston.
Half the world lacks access to essential health services, 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses
Article / 14th December 2017At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services, according to a new report from the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
World’s richest 0.1% have boosted their wealth by as much as poorest half
Article / 14th December 2017The richest 0.1% of the world’s population have increased their combined wealth by as much as the poorest 50% – or 3.8 billion people – since 1980, according to a report detailing the widening gap between the very rich and poor.
Universal Health Coverage: Financing and the structural causes of poverty
Blog / 13th December 2017We all support the aspiration to achieve ‘Universal Health Coverage.’ Who could possibly argue against a world in which everybody has access to the high quality health services they need, without incurring financial hardship?The problem is how we can possibly turn such a lofty ambition into reality.
Famine and epidemic disease in Africa
Article / 5th December 2017Without public recognition of the politics behind disease and famine, it is harder to hold leaders accountable, or indeed to take any measures – beyond the purely technical or charity-minded – to mitigate future disasters. And nowhere is the blindness to context in famine reporting more pervasive than in Africa, writes Alex de Waal.