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$300 billion yearly to wipe out poverty is affordable. Here’s how…

Blog / 13th February 2025

This 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.

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Is it time to phase out international laws, conventions, accords, summits…?

Article / 3rd February 2025

The 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.

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2025: The year we cancel debt and choose hope

Blog / 28th January 2025

This 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.

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Toward a better world: Building a movement for social justice in a time of peril

Article / 24th January 2025

This 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.

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UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health and climate change agreement

News / 23rd January 2025

UN agencies have responded to the new US administration's executive orders ending its relationship with the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Billionaire wealth surges to ‘unimaginable’ levels in 2024 as Oxfam predicts emergence of five trillionaires within a decade

Report / 21st January 2025

Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, as the world’s richest people increasingly benefited from inheritance and powerful connections, according to Oxfam’s latest annual inequality report.

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New era of crisis for children as global conflicts intensify and inequality worsens

Report / 16th January 2025

The world is entering a new era of crisis for children; climate change, inequality and conflict are disrupting their lives and limiting their futures, the UN Children’s Fund warns in a new study.

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‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says

Report / 10th January 2025

The richest 1 per cent of people have already blown through their fair share of the global carbon budget for the year just 10 days into January. 

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Developing countries are being choked by debt: This could be the year of breaking free

Blog / 10th January 2025

The resolution of the debt crisis needs a determined and organized mass movement of people—and the movement is rising. Debt distress need not be destiny, writes Ben Phillips.

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Famine spreading amid 'unprecedented' humanitarian crisis in Sudan: UN

News / 7th January 2025

Multiple U.N. leaders addressing the UN Security Council have urged action to tackle the spiraling humanitarian crisis unfolding in war-torn Sudan, which has contributed to roughly half of the country facing acute food insecurity. 

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