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$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.
UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health and climate change agreement
News / 23rd January 2025UN agencies have responded to the new US administration's executive orders ending its relationship with the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Agreement.
Billionaire wealth surges to ‘unimaginable’ levels in 2024 as Oxfam predicts emergence of five trillionaires within a decade
Report / 21st January 2025Billionaire 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.
New era of crisis for children as global conflicts intensify and inequality worsens
Report / 16th January 2025The 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.
‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says
Report / 10th January 2025The 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.
Developing countries are being choked by debt: This could be the year of breaking free
Blog / 10th January 2025The 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.
Famine spreading amid 'unprecedented' humanitarian crisis in Sudan: UN
News / 7th January 2025Multiple 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.