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2 September 2008
World
Bank: Two and a half billion people live on less than $2 a day
3 July 2008
Global
food price rises exacerbate famine in Ethiopia and Somalia
10 June 2008
The world food crisis and the capitalist market
Part Three
9 June 2008
United
Nations conference offers derisory level of aid for millions
hit by food prices
The world food crisis and the capitalist market
Part Two
7 June 2008
The world food crisis and the capitalist market
Part One
20 May 2008
Global
survey reveals growing anger over social inequality
24 April 2008
Financial
speculators reap profits from global hunger
15 April 2008
Amid
mounting food crisis, governments fear revolution of the hungry
29 March 2008
Global
food prices rise and famine increases
7 March 2008
America's
"Fortunate 400" control vast wealth
31 Janaury 2008
UNICEF
report: Infant mortality rates still high
22 December 2007
Severe
food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
23 November 2007
Jury
awards damages to Central American Dole workers
12 July 2007
World
Wealth Report: a census of the global oligarchy
10 March 2007
Forbes 2007 list: Nearly
one thousand billionaires in the world, a misfortune for humanity
16 February 2007
US
and UK worst places in developed world to be a child
29 December 2006
Financial Times cautions
the "plutocrats"
8 December 2006
Report
documents extreme levels of global wealth inequality
13 September 2006
Worldwide
drive to privatise water
6 September 2006
Worsening
food insecurity in Africa
7 June 2006
Hunger
and malnutrition increase in many parts of the world
9 May 2006
Asian
growth rates rise but employment problems deepen
24 February 2006
Financial Times columnist
warns about social inequality in US
16 September 2005
UN
Human Development Report pleads for reform as poverty and misery
deepen
15 June 2005
G8
agrees to paltry debt forgiveness package
25 May 2005
Social
mobility lower in US and Britain than in other advanced countries
9 May 2005
Forbes reports bonanza
for world's billionaires
1 April 2005
UNICEF
study shows child poverty increasing in advanced countries
24 December 2004
One
billion children worldwide suffering deprivation
26 July 2004
Huge
funding shortfall for global AIDS epidemic
22 June 2004
Merrill-Lynch
report: concentration of wealth at the top resumed upward spiral
in 2003
18 May 2004
World
Bank chief admits United Nations Development Goals cannot be
met
9 March 2004
Forbes report: Billionaires'
wealth grew by 36 percent in last year
25 February 2004
Women
workers face super-exploitation by global corporations
17 February 2004
One
third of the world's urban population lives in a slum
12 January 2004
World
Health Report: Life expectancy falls in poorest countries
19 December 2003
World
hunger report: 842 million starve in the midst of plenty
17 November 2003
Why
are retirement pensions under attack?
28 July 2003
UN
report says one billion suffer extreme poverty
13 December 2002
Global
survey reveals growing economic hardship, opposition to US
12 September 2002
OECD
study shows growing gulf between rich and poor
UN report on Middle East catalogues widening inequality
30 August 2002
Sri
Lankan family alleges woman victim of human organ theft
3 July 2002
G8
summit rejects Africa aid plea
26 April 2002
Human
organs: the next futures market?
22 April 2002
UNICEF
documents failure to alleviate child poverty and disease
18 April 2002
Report
shows impact of poor sanitation on world's health
18 July 2001
World
Bank admits 85 percent of world's population has no retirement
income
16 June 2001
Oxfam
report says "rigged trade" is widening gap between
rich and poor countries
3 May 2001
Governments
resort to police violence against international May Day protests
19 April 2001
African
"slave ship" highlights widespread existence of child
slavery
3 March 2001
Oxfam
reports show adverse health impact of drug patents on developing
countries
17 January 2001
UN
agency reports more than 800 million hungry worldwide
12 August 2000
Hundreds
killed by floods in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh
17 July 2000
UN
report on AIDS paints a picture of devastation--Part 1
7 July 2000
UN
world report documents widespread poverty, illiteracy and disease
16 June 2000
World
Bank Report catalogues a social catastrophe in Africa
UN report examines high levels of child poverty in
the richest countries
8 June 2000
Explosive
growth internationally in trafficking of women and children for
sex trade
4 February 2000
OECD
study highlights widespread and persistent poverty in Europe
and America
29 November 1999
Human
Development report shows worsening poverty in South Asia
9 September 1999
Slavery in the modern era
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy,
by Kevin Bales
6 August 1999
UN Human Development Report finds:
Social inequality and poverty increasing worldwide
23 July 1999
The impact of globalisation on health and safety at
work
Report issued by the World Health Organisation and International
Labour Organisation
30 June 1999
The Forbes 200 list: billions for the privileged
few
20 May 1999
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