STWR - Share The World's Resources

The global financial, food, and fuel crises and the negative impacts of climate change pose a severe threat to the world's 37 million uprooted people, and will likely increase their numbers, warned the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Reported by Ida Wahlstrom. 

As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented $700 billion bailout package reverberated through the UN last week as over 100 world leaders gathered in New York for the annual talk-fest: the 63rd session of the General Assembly. Reported by Thalif Deen.

The debt crisis that hit the advanced industrial countries in 2007 could radically change the conditions of indebtedness in developing countries in the near future - all the more so since some of them have already been severely affected by the world food crisis of 2008, writes Éric Toussaint.

In what is turning out to be hard-fought negotiations between rich and poor nations, more than 1,000 government and civil society delegates gathered in the Ghanaian capital yesterday to agree the best ways to deliver and administer aid. By Miriam Mannak.

Tax havens in Europe are depriving poor countries of more money than they receive in development aid, it has been alleged. Some 11.5 trillion (million million) dollars is held in offshore accounts across the world, according to Tax Justice Network, a grouping of economists, accountants and academics

The randomness of numbers sometimes throws up some striking coincidences. Behind the shadow plays conjured up by the zealous servants of neoliberal globalisation, the brutal backstage reality revealed itself this week, through the publication of two international statistics.