The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer.
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75, we must delve deeper into the many powerful ways in which human rights can end poverty discrimination and address economic inequality, writes Olivier De Schutter.
Some of the worldSome of the world’s richest countries experienced sharp rises in child poverty between 2014 and 2021, according to data published today by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
In a collective effort to address the pressing challenges of climate change, a global coalition of civil society organizations have published a new review of whether countries are doing their fair share to tackle the climate crisis.