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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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UN treaty must address corporate capture

Article / 18th May 2016

At a recent gathering in Brazil, an alliance of campaign groups reaffirmed their call for a binding international instrument to address human rights abuses committed by transnational corporations and other business enterprises.

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Mistreated: How shady tax treaties are fuelling inequality and poverty

Article / 23rd February 2016

New research by ActionAid reveals how tax avoidance strategies used by some multinational corporations deprive the world’s most impoverished communities of vital revenues. Tax treaties play a facilitating role in many of these schemes - and it is time they came to an end.

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Politically-filtered views on progress against poverty

Article / 28th March 2012

The policy interpretations given by some critics of the World Bank's global poverty data are yet another form of their own political filtering. Some people just don't want to accept that the living standards of the poorest could evolve over time in any way contrary to what their political beliefs would appear to dictate, argues Martin Ravallion.

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