While women in rich societies are paid around 25% less than men for equal jobs, those living in impoverished countries receive by far much lower salaries, if any at all. Here are some facts. In its report: Why the majority of the world’s poor are women, a global movement of people
Author: Baher Kamal, IPS
Hundreds of millions of children sentenced to ignorance
More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed about the horrifying fate of an entire generation. But there is much more. In fact, there are 244 million children still out of school, while educational centres are
‘The Worse, The Better’ Doctrine and the Melting Ice
There is a prevailing doctrine among the right and far-right political parties who are still in the opposition and are most likely to jump to power in those countries where they are not already ruling. It is the doctrine of “the worse things go, the better for us.” Their markets-influenced neo-liberal
Of Aristotle, Orwell, and the Young Heirs
A couple of decades ago in Athens, a conversation over a ‘souvlaki’ and wine dinner with a young Greek economist led to talking about democracy. Asked for his opinion, he said “By then, when philosophers like Aristotle formulated their theories about democracy, the society was dominated by the rich.” When asked
The Hunger Factory: The modern horsemen of the apocalypse Part- II
While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight. Like the legend of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the modern ones are a mix of combined causes: inequality; speculation; indebtedness, and the
The Hunger Factory: The miracle of the sudden rise and fall of food prices, Part- I
The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined “significantly” in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines. The data, released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 5 August, adds the FAO Food Price Index averaged 140.9 points in July, down 8.6% from June,
What if a patient unplugged the oxygen tube that keeps them alive?
World Environment Day: Five more planets earth urgently needed
The richest 1pc pollutes more than the poorest 50pc
By deliberately ignoring risk, the world is bankrolling its own destruction
It is often said that a pessimistic person is an optimistic but well-informed person. Here, a good number of people may believe that human wit and inventiveness are capable of facing both the current and the looming disasters, like the impact of climate change, for instance. Others, instead, may think that