Blood Business sheds light on the opaque trade of the blood plasma industry. Real Stories 5 June 2020 From the impoverished streets of Cleveland Ohio to the golden shores of Switzerland’s Lake Zurich, the film explores the intricacies around the business of blood. Plasma, a component of blood that is […]
Poverty
In glitzy and prosperous Hong Kong, thousands live in conditions deemed an “insult to human dignity”. Low-income residents who can’t keep up with soaring property prices have no choice but to cram into homes barely bigger than a coffin or wire cage. More than 200,000 Hongkongers survive in the cramped […]
Lockdowns in at least 33 of Africa´s 54 countries have blocked farmers from getting food to markets and threatened deliveries of food assistance to rural populations. AP — April 15, 2020 In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a street trader sells cabbages by the side of the road, after […]
“all humanitarian aid delivered by the UN or their outreach agencies had been stockpiled by the armed groups and distributed to the fighters from within these groups.” Vanessa Beeley – Patreon Jan 14, 2020 “Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in the north of Syria and oppressing millions of Syrians can now breathe […]
Comparing the treatment of Jeffrey Epstein to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s murder, reveals the grotesque inequality at the heart of American society. There’s one set of rules for the rich, and an entirely different set for the poor. Hide Out Now – Jul 2019 Late Wednesday […]
So much for the 2030 Agenda sustainability fib. Is the UN trying to help people or finish them off? Or does the blame lie solely with the Saudi coalition?MH Published: June 28, 2019 Source: Geopolitics Alert (GPA) — Since 2015, Yemen’s Customs and Consumer Protection has had to either send back or […]
A heartwarming case of charity in the Deep Freeze: By John Vibes Earlier this week, we reported on the inspirational story of an anonymous Good Samaritan who paid for 70 homeless people to stay in hotels after there was a fire at their encampment. In the days since, more details […]
Inequality: The rich just keep getting richer, and meanwhile the slice of the pie owned by the poor just keeps getting smaller. If you add together all of the money owned by the poorest 3.8 billion people living on this planet, it would roughly equal the wealth controlled by the […]
More than 20 million people are at risk of starving to death. Will the world step up? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/more-than-20-million-people-are-at-risk-of-starving-to-death-will-the-world-step-up/2017/07/17/c7d7703c-6b14-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.812be9058c88 A severely malnourished child lies in the hands of her mother in March as she waits to be processed into a UNICEF-funded health program in Baidoa in southwestern Somalia. (Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse […]