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by Our Foreign Desk
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef have warned that at least 2.4 billion people have seen no improvement in sanitation despite millennium targets set in 2000.
The United Nations agencies said on Tuesday that over 946 million people were still relieving themselves outdoors, the vast majority of them being poor inhabitants of rural areas.
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’