Topic: Poverty and hunger
Africa: key facts and resources
Article / 19th May 2008A collection of facts and further resources about economic development in Africa, including organisations, reports and articles.
Education: key facts and resources
Article / 19th May 2008A collection of facts, organisations, reports and further resources about education from a global perspective.
Energy: key facts and resources
Article / 19th May 2008Some facts, organisations, reports and other resources about energy from a global perspective.
Food security & agriculture: an overview
Article / 19th May 2008The escalating crisis of volatile food prices and food insecurity is the result of an industrial development model based on large-scale, export-orientated agriculture tied to international competition, self interest and stock market speculation. With over a billion people going hungry each day despite a huge surplus of food production, a reorientation towards more localised, smaller scale and sustainable agriculture is urgently required.
Health, education and shelter: an overview
Article / 19th May 2008Education, health and shelter are three basic and essential services long enshrined as a fundamental human right in the Universal Declaration of 1948, but ever since contradicted by the grave reality of life for a large swathe of the world population.
In search of a better world
Blog / 18th April 2008A new book by Dr Zeki Ergas, based on a collection of short essays originally published in Share The World’s Resources (STWR), explores the major threats facing humanity in the 21st century and outlines the systemic, structural and institutional changes necessary to avert a global catastrophe.
Annual Report – January 2008
News / 5th January 20082007 was STWR’s most progressive year to date. Particular progress was made in terms of organisation, structure, networking and raising our profile.
Mobilising ‘world public opinion’
Article / 23rd July 2007A renewed air of questioning is being felt in the movement for global justice. Non-governmental organisations are wondering what to do next after the campaigns for more aid, less debt and better trade are proving inadequate to counter the sheer scale of mass poverty, whilst activists raising awareness of climate change have never been more prominent and yet overwhelmed by the task ahead. ...
Another false dawn for overseas aid
Article / 6th April 2007The latest overseas aid figures will be no suprise to the developing world. Broken promises will continue to make newspaper headlines until the deeper contradictions and biases of the current economic approach are addressed.
The end of economic growth
Article / 4th April 2007The pursuit of economic growth as a sole measure of national success is not, despite the dogmas of the World Bank, a foregone conclusion or an inevitable assumption. A paradigm shift in thinking is required if our obsession with outmoded orthodox economics is ever to be overcome, writes Adam Parsons.