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Slight decrease in global hunger as inequalities widen, UN report reveals

News / 29th July 2025

An interagency group from the UN have released the flagship 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, estimating a global, yet uneven, decline in hunger since 2022.

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Hague Group announces sanctions against Israel at Colombia summit

News / 18th July 2025

A dozen countries announced a raft of punitive measures against Israel on July 16 following a two-day summit hosted by the Hague Group in Bogotá.

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Stop Israel’s dystopian ‘humanitarian city’ plan—before it’s too late

Blog / 14th July 2025

The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the world will once again let it happen, writes Medea Benjamin for Common Dreams.

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No fuel, no aid, no escape: UN agencies warn of looming collapse in Gaza

News / 14th July 2025

The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement.

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How Trump weaponised the US budget bill overseas

Blog / 9th July 2025

US headlines have been dominated by coverage of the many ways President Trump’s budget bill will gut healthcare programs and deepen economic inequality in the United States if it is passed into law.

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Wealth of the global 1% has skyrocketed by over $33 trillion since 2015

Report / 28th June 2025

An Oxfam report estimates that the richest 1% globally have seen their wealth surge by more than $33.9 trillion over the past decade, with just 3,000 billionaires accounting for $6.5 trillion of that increase.

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Want to end poverty? Then reduce inequality

Blog / 27th June 2025

New World Bank numbers show 125 million more people living in extreme poverty than previously thought, writes Max Lawson for Equals.

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Attacks on world order and global aid derailing decades of progress on poverty, warns UN poverty expert

Report / 26th June 2025

Unprecedented cuts to global aid and intensifying attacks on multilateralism are undermining decades of progress in the fight against poverty, the UN’s poverty expert warned today.

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UN reveals worsening hunger hotspots

News / 18th June 2025

A new joint UN report warns that people in five hunger hotspots around the world face extreme hunger and risk of starvation and death in the coming months unless there is urgent humanitarian action and a coordinated international effort to de-escalate conflict, stem displacement, and mount an urgent full-scale aid response.

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Weaponising food worsens starvation

Blog / 18th June 2025

Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation, write Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nadia Malyanah Azman for IPS News.

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