Topic: Poverty and hunger
Toward a better world: Building a movement for social justice in a time of peril
Article / 24th January 2025This is no time to blame those who are going to be hurt by Trump’s draconian policies. We need a coordinated series of campaigns that could change the conditions that produce poverty for good.
UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health and climate change agreement
News / 23rd January 2025UN agencies have responded to the new US administration's executive orders ending its relationship with the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Agreement.
New era of crisis for children as global conflicts intensify and inequality worsens
Report / 16th January 2025The world is entering a new era of crisis for children; climate change, inequality and conflict are disrupting their lives and limiting their futures, the UN Children’s Fund warns in a new study.
Developing countries are being choked by debt: This could be the year of breaking free
Blog / 10th January 2025The resolution of the debt crisis needs a determined and organized mass movement of people—and the movement is rising. Debt distress need not be destiny, writes Ben Phillips.
35 children born into hunger every minute in 2024
Report / 1st January 2025At least 18.2 million children were born into hunger in 2024, or about 35 children a minute, with conflict and climate crises combining to drive at least 800,000 more children into hunger over the year, according to a new analysis.
What is the true meaning of Christmas?
Article / 24th December 2024It is easy to forget the world situation if we partake in the frantic overconsumption of Christmas. But what is the true meaning of Christmas in the midst of environmental destruction, growing levels of poverty and escalating global tensions?
Staggering scale of Sudan crisis ‘demands sustained and urgent attention’
Blog / 23rd December 2024A senior UN humanitarian official has issued an urgent plea for international support to alleviate the devastating toll of the ongoing war in Sudan, as millions remain in desperate need of aid and protection.
Gaza: Nearly one million Palestinians face winter without shelter
Blog / 23rd December 2024Only 23 percent of Gaza’s shelter needs have been met this autumn, leaving nearly one million Palestinians vulnerable to exposure during the harsh winter months, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council-led Shelter Cluster in Palestine.
A most heinous—yet unprosecuted—crime: inequality
Blog / 19th December 2024Planet Earth is drying up, relentlessly. But while such an ‘existential crisis’ affects nearly every region, guess where - and who - are the most hit?