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euro news | People with disabilities face discrimination in all areas of life. However, disabled women face especially bigger challenges, according to Inclusion Europe.

Source: euro news.

The Guardian | Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

Source: The Guardian.

Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a much smaller role in the election manifestos of political parties both in Germany and in other cou...

openDemocracy | The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political. By omitting this dynamic, the World Bank renders the “middle-income trap” a technical problem, when it is in fact deeply political. And technical solutions can’t solve political...

Phys.Org | If economic inequality increases within a country, the risk of civil war breaking out grows. This is the finding from a study by the Chair of Economic History at the University of Tübingen following analysis of data stretching over two centuries and covering a total of 193 countries. The...

Nature | Climate injustice persists as those least responsible often bear the greatest impacts, both between and within countries. Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate c...