STWR’s campaign and advocacy were critically important in 2025, a year marked by wealthy governments significantly rolling back their historic commitments to international economic sharing.
Contents
- Overview of the year
- Campaigning, activism and events
- Research, writing and publications
- Plans and projects for 2026
Overview of the year
STWR’s campaign and advocacy were critically important in 2025, a year marked by wealthy governments significantly rolling back their historic commitments to international economic sharing. As acute food insecurity rose for the sixth consecutive year, the United Nations experienced a steep decline in funding from its major donors. The humanitarian system reached a breaking point, threatening lifesaving operations worldwide. Yet most rich countries abruptly cut aid budgets and pulled back from their global development push, precisely when a full-scale emergency response was urgently needed to avert famines due to intensifying conflicts, economic shocks and climate disasters.
This crisis in the multilateral system was the key focus for our website and awareness-raising activities throughout the year. After the United States administration announced its decision to withdraw from the World Health Organisation while shutting down USAID, STWR consistently highlighted the catastrophic consequences for the fight against global poverty. We gladly commemorated the United Nations’ 80th anniversary in September, hailing the Organisation’s invaluable importance for peace and human rights—despite its chronic underfunding and inability to hold the great powers accountable to international law.
STWR also continued to promote many proposals for global economic sharing in the face of escalating countertrends and billionaire wealth surging to record levels. With an estimated 0.001% of the world’s population controlling three times as much wealth as half of humanity, we endorsed the call from experts for an International Panel on Inequality to influence government policymaking. We also backed the UN’s persistent advocacy for basic social protection schemes worldwide, including a Global Fund to bridge the financing gap in low-income countries.
UN agencies demonstrated that ending hunger by 2030 would cost less than 1% of global military budgets each year, proving another fundamental cause for sharing the world’s resources. STWR therefore publicised a landmark UN report, The Security We Need, that advocates diverting resources from military spending towards sustainable development priorities. We also joined civil society demands for governments to end the arms race and instead invest in real security based on human rights and climate justice, as highlighted at the annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
Other social mobilisations that STWR amplified on our networks included those aimed at countering draconian ‘anti-sharing’ policies in the United States, such as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that entails cuts to public healthcare and food assistance to fund tax handouts for the rich. We also added our voice to anti-poverty campaigners calling for action on unjust debt, advancing longstanding demands to establish a UN sovereign debt resolution mechanism. Finally, we joined the chorus of activist groups during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil to keep hope alive for a rapid clean energy transition—one that is based on a just, equitable sharing of global resources.
Campaigning, activism and events
STWR participated in a number of events throughout 2025 that gave us the opportunity to promote our campaigning priorities and vision. This included the We Rise 2025 national gathering in Euston, London, where we hosted a stall, engaged in lively conversations with activists and sold a number of our books. At the World Transformed (TWT) annual festival held in Manchester, we also held a stall and took part in a number of side events about progressive politics in the UK. We regularly joined activist events in London related to the genocide in Gaza, such as the thousands of protestors in June who encircled the UK parliament to demand an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel. Over the summer, we also supported the historic ‘Global March to Gaza’ held in Egypt that brought together an international coalition from over 50 countries. Participants hailed from trade unions, rights groups and medical sectors in an attempt to break Israel’s illegal blockade and facilitate the immediate entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Our regular talks and presentations to public audiences continued regularly throughout the year, where we outlined the current reality of extreme poverty across the world and the need for human rights to be protected by the rule of law. These online presentations drew audiences from various human rights organisations, church groups and NGOs, as well as other interested participants with no background in political issues. Many expressed an interest in helping with our campaign and spreading awareness to their communities.
We lent our support to numerous other events that aligned with our cause of implementing Article 25 and sharing the world’s resources. Key international events included the ‘No more austerity’ march and rally in association with the People’s Assembly, focused on the need to fund declining public services in the UK; the ‘Make Them Pay’ demonstration as part of a global week of action on climate justice called by national civil society coalitions; and the Global Days of Action on Military Spending in which we supported calls to defund militarism and share global resources for skyrocketing humanitarian needs. We also participated in online events and amplified our campaign during the World Social Summit in Doha; the Global week of action to cancel the debt and finance a just transition, organised by This World is Ours!; and events surrounding the COP30 UN climate change conference in Belém, Brazil, including the Global day of action and the worldwide ‘Draw the line’ mobilisations that demanded accountability for wealthy polluters and climate finance for the Global South.
Research, writing and publications
A major priority for STWR co-workers in 2025 was the administration of our books, reports and other print publications via our online shop. We continued to promote these books through our online and outreach activities, while also publicising our campaign resources that provide great inspiration for people to get involved in STWR’s work and be part of a growing movement for economic sharing worldwide.
Four new books are in process of publication, beginning with our large volume on world governance and the principle of sharing that is being prepared for release in 2026. This will be closely followed by a book of quotations on spiritual-political themes by STWR’s founder, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi. An important book on mass public demonstrations from the perspective of the Ageless Wisdom teachings is further ready to be drafted in due course.
STWR also published regular newsletters and blogs on our website that reflect our campaign priorities around Article 25 and the cause for global economic sharing. These included, among others, a commemoration after the passing of Pope Francis, the ‘humble advocate for sharing’; an urgent reflection on the retreat from global development by wealthy nations that was widely republished by alternative media outlets; and a compilation of resources on the real pathway towards a rapid, equitable and just transition following the COP30 climate conference.
Our Japanese website at sharing.org/ja continued to mirror our main English site, with much of our news content also translated for Japanese users and widely posted on our Japanese social networking sites. A translation of our book ‘The intersection of politics and spirituality in addressing the climate crisis’ was also completed in Slovenian, along with all articles for STWR’s signature title ‘Studies on the principle of sharing’. German translations of our forthcoming books have also been largely prepared.
We continued to publish guest content on our website where it relates to our campaign for global economic sharing, as well as events and news that highlight our cause for implementing Article 25. Our social media networks on X and Facebook also remain a key medium for STWR to reach a wider audience and generate support for our campaign.
In September, we migrated our website platform from Drupal to WordPress and completed a site refresh for sharing.org. This was an opportunity to reorganise and update our content to better reflect our campaign focus and priorities.
Plans and projects for 2026
STWR members have agreed the following core goals and objectives for our work in the coming year. Building upon our plans and projects from 2025, we aim to:
- Attend all the major gatherings and events that relate to our campaign for Article 25, mainly in the UK but also in Western Europe and occasionally the United States when possible. We will host stalls, give talks and presentations, and network with other professionals in the field to raise more awareness about STWR’s work and our campaign.
- Expand our volunteer network of campaigners across the UK and in other countries worldwide, especially the United States. Volunteers can host their own presentations about the Article 25 campaign, fundraise and engage in a wide range of grassroots activities.
- Update the educational resources on STWR’s website to better convey our simple and transformative vision—for a historic mass movement for Article 25 beyond borders, as set out in many of STWR’s books and publications. We seek to inspire ordinary people the world over to unite behind a single, peaceful and lawful demand for governments to guarantee Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for every individual and family.
- Expand the ‘learn more’ content on our website that provides an easily digestible introduction to the ‘what?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of sharing the world’s resources, along with frequently asked questions and information about how to get involved with our campaign.
- Use our website and social media channels to raise greater public awareness of the worsening global hunger emergency which remains underreported in the mainstream media.
- Publish and promote our new book on world governance and the principle of sharing. This major publication will be closely followed by another important book for STWR that gives greater insight into the spiritual significance of peaceful mass protests for Article 25. We will also publish a compilation of insightful quotes on political-spiritual themes by STWR’s founder, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi.
- Continue to promote our past publications under the theme ‘Studies on the principle of sharing’, particularly our flagship campaigning book ‘Heralding Article 25: A people’s strategy for world transformation’.
- Seek funding from the public and any grant-making bodies to help advertise and promote our campaign.
Support STWR’s ongoing research and advocacy work
Our work would not be possible without your support. STWR is funded entirely through private donations from individuals, and we do not receive any funding from governments or other institutions. Nor are we affiliated with any political party or corporate enterprise. Since we are not a registered charity and all of our funding is provided on an unrestricted basis, we remain free to take an explicitly political position on the global issues we address, and we are able to channel our limited income directly towards our research and advocacy. As is currently the case for many progressive organisations, our small team of staff and volunteers are facing mounting budgetary pressures. Your donations can help us to maintain our website and continue researching, writing and communicating our work while generating support within the global justice movement for the principle of sharing as a solution to global crises. Please consider making a donation by following this link: sharing.org/donate
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