Global Inequality
More than 1 billion hungry, UN agencies report
By Tom Eley, October 15, 2009
More than 1 billion people will go hungry in 2009, two UN agencies reported on Wednesday, an increase of over 100 million people in one year.
UN reports 1 billion of the world’s people going hungry
By Jerry White, September 18, 2009
For the first time in history, more than one billion people, or nearly one in every 6 inhabitants of the planet, are going hungry this year.
More than 1 billion people hungry worldwide in 2009
By Joe Kishore, June 20, 2009
Humanity will achieve the dubious distinction this year of having more than 1 billion members of its species living in hunger for the first time in history.
UN warns global jobs crisis may last eight years
By Bill Van Auken, June 4, 2009
The International Labor Organization issued a report Wednesday predicting that the jobs crisis sweeping the globe may last for eight years and warning that sustained high levels of unemployment will u...
British Labour’s divisive Equality Bill
By Julie Hyland, May 9, 2009
Far from promoting equality in any meaningful sense, the government’s Equality Bill advocates identity politics as window dressing for the growth of class inequality under Labour’s rule.
World Bank president warns economic crisis poses “human calamity”
By Andre Damon, April 28, 2009
As finance ministers meeting in Washington failed to adopt any new policies to confront the deepening world economic crisis, the head of the World Bank warned that it threatens to unleash “a human a...
IMF and World Bank reports predict bleak future for Africa
By Trevor Johnson, April 2, 2009
The IMF predicts the global economic crisis will have a huge and disproportionate impact on sub-Saharan Africa.
More than one billion to go hungry in 2009
By Hiram Lee, April 2, 2009
The financial and economic crisis threatens to sharply increase the number of people suffering from hunger, despite a recent decline in food prices.
Global slump could throw 53 million more people into poverty
By Mike Head, February 16, 2009
Up to 53 million more people around the world could fall into poverty in 2009 as a result of the global economic slump, highlighting the worldwide character of the social catastrophe unleashed by the ...
UNICEF report: Half a million women die from pregnancy complications each year
By Oliver Richards, January 20, 2009
A report by UNICEF finds that women living in the least developed countries of the world are 300 times more likely to die as a result of childbirth or pregnancy-related complications than women living...
Faces of foreclosure in Pittsburgh
Working class families feel brunt of housing crisis
By Samuel Davidson, December 22, 2008
The WSWS spoke to homeowners threatened with foreclosure at a recent meeting in Pittsburgh.
Nearly 1 billion of world’s people face chronic hunger
By Oliver Richards, December 13, 2008
The number of undernourished people in the world has increased from 923 million in 2007 to 963 million in 2008.
