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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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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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‘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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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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In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’

News / 1st January 2025

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for making 2025 “a new beginning” in his message for the New Year.

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35 children born into hunger every minute in 2024

Report / 1st January 2025

At least 18.2 million children were born into hunger in 2024, or about 35 children a minute, with conflict and climate crises combining to drive at least 800,000 more children into hunger over the year, according to a new analysis.

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Staggering scale of Sudan crisis ‘demands sustained and urgent attention’

Blog / 23rd December 2024

A senior UN humanitarian official has issued an urgent plea for international support to alleviate the devastating toll of the ongoing war in Sudan, as millions remain in desperate need of aid and protection.

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Gaza: Nearly one million Palestinians face winter without shelter

Blog / 23rd December 2024

Only 23 percent of Gaza’s shelter needs have been met this autumn, leaving nearly one million Palestinians vulnerable to exposure during the harsh winter months, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council-led Shelter Cluster in Palestine.

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