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2020 to see 'highest figure in decades' in need of humanitarian assistance
News / 13th December 2019According to OCHA’s “Global Humanitarian Overview 2020,” 168 million people worldwide will need assistance in the coming year — the “highest figure in decades.”
Climate financing being underhanded by rich nations, NGOs charge
Blog / 13th December 2019The successful battle against climate change – which has triggered a rash of natural disasters, including floods, droughts and rising sea levels— will be predicated largely on the availability of financing.
Inequality threatening human development, new global UN report warns
News / 10th December 2019Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme argues in its latest report.
US and EU owe more than half the cost of repairing future damage caused by climate disasters
Report / 9th December 2019New analysis sets out how much responsibility the wealthy countries behind the climate crisis must take for the devastating impact that rising global temperatures are already having on developing nations.
Human rights and the global protests: Addressing systems as well as symptoms
Blog / 2nd December 2019Human rights advocates should be as concerned with the economic injustices giving rise to recent worldwide demonstrations, as with the repressive responses to them writes Ignacio Saiz for the Centre for Economic and Social Rights.
Why aren’t Americans rising up like we are seeing across the planet?
Blog / 2nd December 2019The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why aren’t Americans rising up in peaceful protest like our neighbors? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
It’s time to retire metrics like GDP. They don’t measure everything that matters
Blog / 2nd December 2019The way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore, writes Joseph Stiglitz.
Step up climate action or face catastrophe, says UN report
News / 27th November 2019Global emissions need to be more than halved if we are to save the planet, world's top scientists agree in a new United Nations report.
The ILO’s Global Social Protection Week needs to address austerity, the elephant in the room
Article / 26th November 2019Financing social protection systems that are both adequate and sustainable is not a fantasy. There are a number of measures that governments can take to raise the resources needed, writes Evelyn Astor for Equal Times.
Less than 10% of EU aid reaches world's poorest countries, study finds
News / 25th November 2019Less than 10% of EU aid money reaches the countries where it is most needed, according to a study that found levels of assistance had dropped for the second year running.