STWR - Share The World's Resources

The hope that at least extreme poverty can be eradicated by the end of 2015, as stipulated in the UN's Millennium Development Goals, seems as unrealistic as ever, not due to lack of resources but a lack of true concern for the world's poor, writes Ramzy Baroud.

In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation's adjusted gross income for two decades, and possibly the highest since 1929, according to Internal Revenue Service data. Reported by Jesse Drucker.

The UN will convene a High-level Event on the MDGs in New York on 25 September 2008. At the halfway point towards the target date - and with hunger on the rise - new questions are being asked about their effectiveness.

The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous estimate and now says that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day, reports Steve Schifferes.

Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. So what is the link between all the statistics?  The answer is inequality, argues George Monbiot.

Oxfam gives a stark warning upon launching their 10-year manifesto for tackling global inequality, titled 'From Poverty to Power,' by Duncan Green.