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Breaking the Silence: Ten humanitarian crises that didn’t make headlines in 2023
Report / 19th January 2024For the second year in a row, all ten of the most under-reported crises are in Africa, reports CARE International in their latest report on the world's forgotten humanitarian crises.
‘Taken, not earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide’
Report / 18th January 2024The world’s top companies are using their monopoly power in their markets to hike prices and keep them high amid inflation and a cost of living crisis. In the five years to 2022, for the world’s top 20 companies, the average “markup” has risen to around 50 per cent.
Nearly 16,000 children a day plunged into hunger in top 10 worsening food crises
Report / 18th January 2024About six million children were pushed into hunger in the top 10 countries that faced worsening food crises last year, which was a 32% increase compared to 2022, according to a new analysis by Save the Children.
Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in ‘decade of division’
Report / 15th January 2024The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer.
Britain’s hunger and malnutrition crisis could be easily solved – yet politicians choose not to
Article / 2nd January 2024We have more than enough to go round, but large proportions of the population lack the basic necessities of life, writes Michael Marmot.
‘Stop wars and step up ‘measly’ contributions’ to climate finance
Article / 21st December 2023The United State’s contribution to the Loss and Damage Fund equals nine minutes of Pentagon spending, says Jeffrey D. Sachs at the ReWired Summit at COP28.
Fighting inequality: The untapped potential of human rights
Blog / 21st December 2023As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75, we must delve deeper into the many powerful ways in which human rights can end poverty discrimination and address economic inequality, writes Olivier De Schutter.
More than 1 in 5 children live in poverty in 40 of the world’s richest countries
News / 14th December 2023Some of the world’s richest countries experienced sharp rises in child poverty between 2014 and 2021, according to data published today by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
At COP28, it’s time to transform the global financial architecture
Blog / 11th December 2023The global finance system is giving fossil fuels a lifeline, indebting vulnerable countries and delaying a just energy transition, writes Bronwen Tucker and Shereen Talaat for Oil Change International.
Developed countries not doing their fair share in tackling climate crisis, new report shows
Report / 11th December 2023In a collective effort to address the pressing challenges of climate change, a global coalition of civil society organizations have published a new review of whether countries are doing their fair share to tackle the climate crisis.