Global Inequality
UNICEF documents failure to alleviate child poverty and disease
By Ben Nichols, April 22, 2002
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently released its report entitled The State of the World’s Children 2002, detailing the terrible predicament facing millions of children mor...
Report shows impact of poor sanitation on world’s health
By Barry Mason, April 18, 2002
A report entitled “The Human Waste”, issued by the British charity Water Aid and Tearfund, a British relief and development agency, details the horrific consequences of poor sanitation and...
World Bank admits 85 percent of world’s population has no retirement income
By Jean Shaoul, July 18, 2001
Less than 15 percent of the world’s population over 65 years of age now receive any income in retirement, according to New Ideas about Old Age Security, a book published recently by the World Ba...
Oxfam report says "rigged trade" is widening gap between rich and poor countries
By Trevor Johnson, June 16, 2001
A recent report by the charity, Oxfam, contains figures showing how the richer more industrialised nations rig trade in their favour, at the expense of the poorest countries.
Governments resort to police violence against international May Day protests
By James Conachy, May 3, 2001
May Day demonstrations around the world on Tuesday gave voice to growing discontent over poverty, unemployment and the impact of global capitalism on the lives of ordinary people. Alarmed at the risin...
UN agency reports more than 800 million hungry worldwide
By Debra Watson, January 17, 2001
At the beginning of the new millenium the number of hungry people in the world stands at 830 million according to officials of the World Food Program (WFP), the United Nations agency responsible for d...
United Nations meets in crisis at Millennium Summit
By Julie Hyland, September 15, 2000
The three-day United Nations Millennium Summit in New York, which brought together 189 world leaders, ended last Friday. The summit was ostensibly called to define the UN's role in the twenty first ce...
UN world report documents widespread poverty, illiteracy and disease
By Margaret Rees, July 7, 2000
The United Nations recently released its Human Development Report 2000. Commenting in the introduction, “One of the 20th century's hallmark achievements was its progress in human rights,” ...
UN report examines high levels of child poverty in the richest countries
By Joseph Tanniru, June 16, 2000
A new report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) details the persistent effect of massive social inequality on the world's children. The report—the first in a series of “Report ...
