(4) 100,000 kids in Kenya work as child prostitutes.
Many of the children being exploited are not from the coast region but are imported from rural areas from around the country. You don’t have to spend a lot of time at the Kenyan coast to know that child prostitution and sex tourism are rampant there. In Mombasa and Malindi, it is common to see […]
(3) 82% of money last year went to the world’s richest 1% .
Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest 1% of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released today. Billionaire wealth has risen by an annual average of […]
(2) The population of sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to reach 2b by 2050 and a large percentage of those people are likely to be extremely poor .
Credit: The Economist
(1) Only 45% of the world’s population have any kind of social protection system.
A new ILO report shows that massive efforts are still needed to ensure that the right to social security becomes a reality for all. The report highlights that universal social protection contributes to eradicating poverty, reducing inequality, promoting economic growth and social justice, as well as achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ILO flagship […]