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Malnutrition will not end by 2030, warn campaigners

Article / 8th August 2016

Save the Children tells Rio nutrition summit that despite global pledge to end malnutrition by 2030, millions of children will be malnourished far into the next century

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Earth’s resources used up at quickest rate ever in 2016

Article / 8th August 2016

In just over seven months, humanity has used up a full year's allotment of natural resources such as water, food and clean air – the quickest rate yet, according to a new report.

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Technology Justice: A Call to Action

Article / 5th August 2016

Technology is at the heart of human development. It enables people to produce food, access water and energy, and keep in good health. But access to technology and its benefits are not fairly shared, argues a new report from Practical Action.

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Human Rights Council adopts historic resolutions on access to medicines

Article / 4th August 2016

The Human Rights Council adopted by consensus two important resolutions reaffirming that access to medicines and enhancing capacity building in public health are fundamental elements for achieving the full realization of the right to health, write Adriano José Timossi and Viviana Muñoz-Tellez.

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Connecting the dots: Human rights, inequality and poverty

Article / 1st August 2016

We can rapidly realise the human rights of the world’s poor through global institutional reforms that reduce inequality and share the planet's natural resource wealth, argues Professor Thomas Pogge.

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Our attitude towards wealth played a crucial role in Brexit. We need a rethink

Article / 1st August 2016

Our planet and the human race face multiple challenges that require us to collaborate and share, both within nations and across national borders, if humanity is to survive, writes Stephen Hawking.

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UNCTAD 14: Elites speaking in the name of peasants and the global poor won’t solve anything!

Article / 12th July 2016

At the close of UNCTAD's 14th session, a coalition of civil society organisations call for a new development model that is inclusive and socially just, in which governments uphold their obligations to provide social services and guarantee Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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69m children will die of preventable causes, says Unicef

Article / 28th June 2016

UN children’s agency report highlights toll on youngsters by 2030 unless world leaders turn rhetoric into reality on fighting poverty.

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Reject dangerous migration response plan, more than 120 NGOs tell EU leaders

News / 24th June 2016

A coalition of NGOs strongly condemn the new EU policies to contain migration, calling on member states to shoulder their fair share of responsibility for protecting people who flee their homes.

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Financing Health and Education for All

Article / 31st May 2016

An extra $50 billion or so per year could help ensure that children everywhere have access to basic health care and schooling - a sum that could easily be found through redirecting military spending and taxing the global rich, argues Jeffrey Sachs.

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