A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Tax evasion isn’t just for the west: it conspires to keep Africa poor too
Article / 31st May 2018A new report reveals how western banks and governments turn a blind eye to billions of pounds’ worth of wealth, generated across west Africa, that is squirrelled away offshore, often out of sight of the tax authorities. By Phillip Inman.
The coming wave of climate displacement
Blog / 31st May 2018Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugees; the other on migration.
New figures show debt crises are growing across the globe
Blog / 17th May 2018Thirty-one countries across the world are now in debt crisis, with a further 82 at risk, according to new figures released by the Jubilee Debt Campaign on 16 May. The figures are being released on the 20th anniversary of the G8 meeting in Birmingham (UK) 1998, when 70,000 people formed a human chain around the summit and called for unpayable developing country debt to be cancelled.
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70, it’s time to resurrect its vision of global sharing and justice
Article / 15th May 2018What are the political implications of meeting the established human right for everyone to enjoy an adequate standard of living? In short, it necessitates a redistribution of wealth and resources on an unprecedented scale across the world, which is why activists should resurrect the United Nations’ radical vision for achieving Article 25.
No money, more problems as U.N. climate talks close in Bonn
Blog / 15th May 2018United Nations climate change talks edged slightly closer to completing the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including guidelines on how to put the Agreement into practice, despite rich countries persistently blocking progress on key issues like finance.