The U.N. secretary-general has made a sweeping call to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
A woman wearing a face mask walks past a mural of former President Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday July 18, 2020, as the country celebrates International Mandela Day. Mandela's fight for freedom and human rights makes him the most influential person among Africa's youth, according to a survey conducted across the continent.
He said developed countries are strongly invested in their own survival and have “failed to deliver the support needed to help the developing world through these dangerous times.” The speech by the U.N. chief took aim at the vast inequality of wealth — “The 26 richest people in the world hold as much wealth as half the global population,” Guterres said — and other inequalities involving race, gender, class and place of birth.
Developing countries, and especially African nations, are under-represented at the levels of power including at financial institutions like the World Bank and political ones like the U.N. Security Council, whose five most powerful members — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China — date from the 1940s when the world body was created.
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