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COVID-19 is a huge threat to stability in Africa
Article / 17th August 2020Narrow self-interest makes it unlikely that the global north will commit the resources and know-how necessary to combat the global pandemic — which would also eliminate one of the factors contributing to civil conflict, writes Elizabeth Schmidt for Foreign Policy in Focus.
The UN’s 75th birthday: A critical chance for the globe to save itself
Blog / 12th August 2020The UN’s 75th anniversary this year is a chance for taking stock, strengthening the UN and confronting the challenges the system will face in the years ahead, writes Giovanna Kuele for PassBlue.
Gleneagles 15 years on: The last debt cancellation
Blog / 28th July 2020Last week marked 15 years since the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, when leaders of the world’s richest countries agreed debt cancellation for many of the world’s poorest heavily indebted countries.
‘Temporary Basic Income’ could slow COVID surge, provide lifeline for world’s poorest
Report / 28th July 2020The immediate introduction of a Temporary Basic Income for the world’s poorest people could slow the current surge in COVID-19 and enable close to three billion people to stay at home, according to a new report from the United Nations Development Programme.
The world needs a ‘people’s vaccine’ for coronavirus, not a big-pharma monopoly
Blog / 27th July 2020No private company should have monopoly rights over a Covid-19 vaccine; this is a public resource that should be contributed to the World Health Organisation’s Technology Access Pool and shared for the benefit of all, writes Helen Clark and Winnie Byanyima.
12,000 people could die each day from hunger linked to COVID-19
Report / 20th July 2020A new Oxfam briefing warns that as many as 12,000 people could die per day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than could die from the disease.
UN envoy condemns failed global poverty eradication efforts
Report / 8th July 2020Global poverty is rising, directly contradicting the mainstream wisdom that it is being eradicated, according to a new report to the UN. States are completely off-track to meet their goal of extreme poverty eradication by 2030, and COVID-19 is now rapidly impoverishing many more.
We can’t trust the IMF and World Bank to lead the COVID-19 recovery
Article / 26th June 2020Despite decades of protests against them, the IMF and World Bank continue to force the same discredited policies on poor governments and their people, writes Lara Merling.
With Coronavirus spreading, time to repurpose the arms industry to meet human need
Blog / 26th June 2020What if more of the arms and defense sector moved into manufacturing health and other products permanently? Surely this is the time for a focus on what peace and security really mean for us all, writes Martin Butcher for Oxfam International.
The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots
Blog / 22nd June 2020The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global inequalities by decades, writes Martin Drewry for the New Internationalist.