STWR - Share The World's Resources

A new business study on global household wealth documents how the world's wealth is continuing to concentrate in the pockets of the awesomely affluent.

Calling for more action to counter pervasive discrimination against women, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have launched a report highlighting that “gender equality and the well-being of children go hand in hand,” and recommending a raft of measures, from greater investment in girls’ education to imposing quotas ensuring woman are better represented in politics.

Halving, by no later than 2015, the number of  undernourished people in the world was the goal set by the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996. Ten years on, there has been almost no progress in reducing global hunger. The FAO's 2006 landmark report on food insecurity carried a clear message: The existence of hunger in a world of plenty s unacceptable, and taking action to eradicate hunger s the responsibility of all. It can be done.

This short report presents a survey and analysis of inequality around the world, it's possible causes and consequences.

The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 is about people living in chronic poverty - people who remain poor for much or all of their lives, many of whom will pass on their poverty to their children and all too often die easily preventable deaths.