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The G7 must act to end ‘vaccine apartheid’ or everyone in the world will suffer
Blog / 28th April 2021The pandemic has uncovered unpalatable truths about global injustices and inequalities. We are challenged to see health as a universal common good, not a benefit that can be cultivated for a privileged few.
NGOs urge rethink over military spending
Blog / 26th April 2021UK campaigning organisations are urging the government to rethink its military spending decisions in the light of the pandemic and the climate emergency.
Governments should give single day's military spending to fight hunger
News / 21st April 2021Aid organisations call on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger. Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help most at risk.
Confronting global apartheid demands global solidarity
Article / 20th April 2021The “inequality pandemic” calls for a new social contract, but it will not happen unless millions around the world mobilise to make it a reality, write Imani Countess and William Minter for The US−Africa Bridge Building Project.
Mapping major protests around the world
Article / 13th April 2021Protest movements are on the rise worldwide amid deepening inequalities and job crises worsened by the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP
News / 26th March 2021Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report on hunger hotspots.
Vaccine nationalism is patently unjust
Article / 26th March 2021Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill. It is perhaps the worst display of national selfishness in modern history, writes Nanjala Nyabola for the Nation.
Rich states 'block' vaccine plans for developing nations
News / 23rd March 2021Wealthy countries - including the UK - are blocking proposals to help developing nations increase their vaccine manufacturing capabilities, documents leaked to BBC Newsnight show.
A moral failure: billions of people with no access to clean drinking water
Article / 23rd March 2021As the UN commemorates World Water Day, Volkan Bozkir - President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly - highlights the moral failure of providing this most basic need to all.
Yemen: Famine around the corner, says World Food Programme
News / 15th March 2021People in Yemen face famine unless the world takes immediate action, the World Food Programme has warned at a high-level fundraising conference.