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Humanitarian system at breaking point as funding cuts force life-or-death choices
News / 13th March 2025The UN’s top relief official has warned that the humanitarian system has reached breaking point, with funding cuts forcing life-or-death decisions over which aid programmes to sustain or shut down.
Faith leaders blast GOP’s attacks on poor and tax cuts for the rich
Report / 6th March 2025Faith leaders came together in Washington, D.C. to share an open letter and report calling out efforts by Republicans in Congress to rip resources away from the working class to fund tax giveaways for the ultrarich.
A landmark recognition of tax and human rights
Blog / 3rd March 2025The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has just issued a much-awaited and historic statement: for the first time, it explicitly recognises that states must tackle inequality and guarantee rights through fair tax policies.
UK aid cuts are a symptom of our broken economic model
Article / 28th February 2025Aid agencies across the UK are reeling from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s surprise announcement this week to increase military spending at the expense of foreign aid, writes Maxine Betteridge-Moes.
Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it
Article / 18th February 2025Measures to address world hunger must start with its known causes and proven policies, not just 'moonshot' technological innovations, writes Jennifer Clapp.
Shutting down USAID threatens to endanger world’s poorer nations
Article / 13th February 2025The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government’s primary channel for humanitarian aid and disaster relief, is expected to have a devastating impact on the world’s developing nations, writes Thalif Deen.
$300 billion yearly to wipe out poverty is affordable. Here’s how…
Blog / 13th February 2025This amount, estimated as the amount needed to set up basic social protection schemes in the world’s lowest-income countries, is affordable for the international community, argues Olivier De Schutter.
Is it time to phase out international laws, conventions, accords, summits…?
Article / 3rd February 2025The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges. But the sad truth is that its been clamorously ignored for over a century, writes Baher Kamal.
2025: The year we cancel debt and choose hope
Blog / 28th January 2025This year, campaigners and activists from all over the world are coming together in the biggest global movement for debt cancellation in twenty-five years, writes Wiz Baines.
Toward a better world: Building a movement for social justice in a time of peril
Article / 24th January 2025This is no time to blame those who are going to be hurt by Trump’s draconian policies. We need a coordinated series of campaigns that could change the conditions that produce poverty for good.