Mounting evidence shows that this funding is going to expensive out-of-reach private hospitals and clinics in low- and middle-income countries that are widening healthcare inequalities, exacerbating poverty and gender-based discrimination and violating human rights. Far from advancing progress towards Universal Health Coverage as governments have committed, this form of development finance is undermining it.
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A critical analysis of Official development Aid in 2023, by Eurodad
Developing country governments are being blamed for irresponsibly borrowing too much. The resulting debt stress has blocked investments and growth in this unequal and unfair world economic order.
Government Debt Is Symptom, Not Cause | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
How helping the poor becamebig business
A worldwide phenomenon: since 2008, farmland acquisitions have doubled prices worldwide, squeezing family farmers and other poor rural communities. Such land grabs are worsening inequality, poverty, and food insecurity.
Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
‘The EU’s ultra-liberal policies can even be found in Parliament’s toilets’ read the lead into a recent media investigation of cleaners’ abysmal working conditions in the European Parliament. The findings—including the fear of speaking to journalists—should not come as any surprise.
Cleaners come out from the shadows to mobilise (socialeurope.eu)
On Labour’s ‘deselection’ of a candidate who fights inequality …
he ITUC demands democratic workplace rights for all domestic workers as it stands in solidarity with them this International Domestic Workers’ Day, 16 June.
Sadly, the fact that vast numbers of very young children are deprived of the food types they need to develop properly may be little surprise, but the sheer scale of the crisis still has the power to shock.
The 2024 ITUC Global Rights Index makes for difficult reading – a clear and urgent wake-up call that the democratic values and fundamental rights agreed upon by most countries at an international level are crumbling.
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