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Mega-rich recoup COVID-losses in record-time yet billions will live in poverty for at least a decade
Report / 25th January 2021The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just nine months, but it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, reveals Oxfam.
Millions on the brink of starvation as the pandemic exacerbates world hunger
Article / 22nd January 2021David Beasley of the World Food Program and Henrietta Fore of UNICEF discuss the enormous challenge of feeding the world's hungry in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Covid vaccine: WHO warns of 'catastrophic moral failure'
News / 21st January 2021The world faces a "catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal Covid vaccine policies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
Global wealth inequality
Article / 18th January 2021The past year has seen one of the greatest transfers of wealth in history. Around the world, as more and more working-class people slip into debt, or are facing eviction, or have burned through their savings to stay afloat during the pandemic, the world’s ~3,000 billionaires are billions richer.
‘Ecological Ponzi scheme’ threatens to bring down humanity, scientists warn
Report / 18th January 2021Accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption are swiftly pushing human societies toward a “ghastly future” of growing hunger, political division and societal breakdown, say leading scientists.
Covid billionaires should help starving people, says charity boss
News / 13th January 2021Billionaires whose wealth has soared during the coronavirus pandemic should stump up to provide emergency aid to the record numbers of people facing starvation, accordinng to the head of a US charity supporting the World Food Programme.
India just had the biggest protest in world history – will it make a difference?
Blog / 27th December 2020In late November, what may have been the single largest protest in human history took place in India, as upward of 250 million people around the subcontinent participated in a 24-hour general strike in solidarity with farmers.
New initiative launched to ‘Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety’
Report / 22nd December 2020A project by Tipping Point North South works to put sustainable human safety at the heart of 21st century foreign, defence, security and international development policy-making.
2.7 billion people did not get state aid during pandemic
Report / 17th December 2020The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it have hit millions of people hard, with poverty set to increase sharply in almost every country for the first time in decades unless action is taken now, according to a new report by Oxfam.
Covid-19 vaccines are being hoarded by rich countries – poor ones are missing out
News / 16th December 2020Lost among the jubilation of vaccine rollouts in rich countries is an uncomfortable reality: The world's poorest countries will have to wait months and possibly years to see any doses at all.