STWR - Share The World's Resources

Too often the state of ill-health in poor countries is framed as a problem of geography, bad luck or poor government, rather than an outcome of political and economic choices, says a report by the People's Health Movement, Medact and the Global Equity Gauge Alliance.

The failure of governments across the world to tackle deep and persistent inequalities in education is consigning millions of children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity, according to a report published by UNESCO.

A report highlighting the great divide between the status of mothers' well-being in rich and poor countries urges governments to do a better job of providing mothers with access to education, income-earning opportunities and basic health care, by Save the Children.

A "toxic combination" of bad policies, economics and politics is killing people on a large scale, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The AIDS epidemic in southern Africa is so severe that it should be classed as a disaster comparable to floods or famine, a new study by the Red Cross said Thursday.

The cover of 'The Least Developed Countries Report 2007' shows two distorted maps above one another, signifying the disparity between countries possessing a great deal of commercial knowledge and the impoverished nations.

Each year at least 1.16 million newborns die in sub-Saharan Africa within the first 28 days of life, making the region the world’s most dangerous to be born in, yet more than two thirds of these infants could be saved with low cost, low tech action, according to a United Nations-backed report.