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Protesters around the world are targeting inequality. Governments must listen

Article / 28th August 2024

Citizen protests around world may vary in their specific causes, but they share a common thread—anger over an economic system that feels intolerable, writes Sarah Saadoun for Human Rights Watch.

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Why we need an OPEC for critical mineral producing nations

Blog / 23rd August 2024

The most important UN panel you’ve never heard of will agree on a set of principles that could make or break the low carbon transition this week, writes Ketakandriana Rafitoson and Nick Dearden.

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Let’s abolish the colonial IMF on its 80th birthday

Blog / 23rd August 2024

From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis, writes Arthur Larok.

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One in 11 people went hungry last year. Climate change is a big reason why.

Article / 15th August 2024

Hunger and food insecurity are no longer merely benchmarks of public health. They are symptoms of a warming world.

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‘Address the threat of fossil fuels’: Nobel laureates urge UN

News / 14th August 2024

Former world leaders and Nobel laureates have criticised a draft UN sustainability pact for not mentioning fossil fuels ahead of a global summit in September.

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Hundreds of legal experts push Biden to drop 'punitive and deadly' sanctions

News / 13th August 2024

As human rights defenders marked the 75th anniversary of the Fourth Geneva Convention and its prohibition on collective punishment, hundreds of legal experts urged the global community to comply with international law by ending the use of illegal sanctions. 

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Starvation in Sudan

Article / 5th August 2024

Sadly, there are many striking parallels between the wars being waged on the civilian populations of Sudan and Gaza. Neither populations have received what they most urgently need: an end to their respective conflicts, writes Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox.

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World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

News / 5th August 2024

The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.

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Healthy diets remain unaffordable for a third of the world’s population

News / 2nd August 2024

More than a third of the world’s population could not afford a healthy diet in 2022, according to the latest data on hunger from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 

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The Spirit Level at 15

Report / 30th July 2024

15 years later, an update of the Spirit Level underscores how inequality harms us all and lies at the root of our escalating environmental, health and social crises. 

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