Tag Archive for Ukraine War

The Bluesberries Launch Song For Ukraine

Australian band The Bluesberries have launched a song they recorded with more than 70 musicians in four cities across the world to raise money for people displaced by the Ukraine war. Band members Daniel Fallon (musician and BBC journalist), Paul Beard (composer, producer and keyboardist) and John McMurtrie AM (Australian entrepreneur and musician) began writing…

Oxfam Warns of Poverty Crisis

Over a quarter of a billion more people could crash into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 because of COVID-19, rising global inequality and the shock of food price rises supercharged by the war in Ukraine, a new Oxfam briefing reveals. Published ahead of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC, First Crisis, Then…