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Migration bill passed by UK violates international human rights law: UN experts

News / 28th July 2023

United Nations commissioners have accused the United Kingdom of violating its international human rights and refugee law obligations after Parliament approved legislation cracking down on asylum-seekers.

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Top economists call for action on runaway global inequality

News / 26th July 2023

Failure to tackle the widening gulf between the world’s rich and poor will entrench poverty and increase the risk of climate breakdown, a group of more than 200 leading economists have said.

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Forcing poor nations to prioritise debt payments over social investments is a 'disaster,' says UN chief

News / 19th July 2023

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that "half our world is sinking into a development disaster, fueled by a crushing debt crisis," and called for urgent fiscal relief.

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165 million people fell into poverty in 3 years of crisis

News / 19th July 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine have pushed 165 million people into poverty since 2020, reports the United Nations, calling for a pause in debt repayments for developing countries.

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‘Crushing’ debt crisis spells development disaster for billions

News / 13th July 2023

Half of humanity lives in countries that are forced to spend more on servicing their debt than on health and education, which is nothing less than a development disaster, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

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Number of people going hungry has risen by 122m since 2019, UN says

News / 13th July 2023

The number of people going hungry in the world has risen by 122 million to 735 million since 2019 because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the UN has said.

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Big business’ windfall profits rocket to “obscene” $1 trillion a year amid cost-of-living crisis

Report / 7th July 2023

The world’s biggest corporations together raked in over $1 trillion in windfall profits each year for the past two years amid soaring prices and interest rates, while billions of people are having to cut back or go hungry.  

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Stop austerity!

Article / 7th July 2023

It is far more useful to fight wealth and inequality than to try and reduce poverty, writes Francine Mestrum.

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Global South reeling from high cost of basic goods amid Russian invasion of Ukraine: Survey

Report / 29th June 2023

"The most vulnerable people around the world are bearing the brunt of skyrocketing food, fuel, and fertilizer prices, with women and girls the hardest hit." 

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If current trends continue, the world’s poor may not achieve a single development goal by 2030

Blog / 22nd June 2023

Eight years after the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world’s low-income countries have struggled to achieve even a single goal.

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