COVID-19 exposes “distorted picture” of global poverty gains, UN envoy says
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation The coronavirus pandemic has exposed complacency and “misplaced triumphalism” by international aid organisations that have taken credit for progress on eradicating extreme poverty, a top United Nations rights official said. Global entities have failed to end severe hardship around the world, and COVID-19 will plunge even more people into […]
Human rights threats in warming world could speed up climate action
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation From worsening hunger and migration to greater loss of lives and property to wild weather, climate change is driving violations of human rights – and focusing on that may be a key way to win faster climate action, rights experts said Wednesday. “Most of the states that are rather […]
In “climate apartheid”, rich will save themselves while poor suffer – UN report
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The world is on course for “climate apartheid”, where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a UN human rights report said on Tuesday. The report, submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by its special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip […]
Laos has “mortgaged” future at expense of people, UN expert says
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation The Laos government has prioritised big infrastructure projects including dams, railways lines and mines that have benefited few people and uprooted the poor from their land, said the top independent expert on poverty at the United Nations. While the South-East Asian nation has seen “remarkable” economic growth over the last two […]