Financing Health and Education for All
Article / 31st May 2016An extra $50 billion or so per year could help ensure that children everywhere have access to basic health care and schooling – a sum that could easily be found through redirecting military spending and taxing the global rich, argues Jeffrey Sachs.
UN treaty must address corporate capture
Article / 18th May 2016At a recent gathering in Brazil, an alliance of campaign groups reaffirmed their call for a binding international instrument to address human rights abuses committed by transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
The renewed debates on sharing, inequality and the limits to growth
Article / 5th May 2016As part of STWR’s ‘global call for sharing’ campaign, we are periodically highlighting the growing public debate on the need for wealth, power and resources to be shared more equitably both within countries and internationally.
Mistreated: How shady tax treaties are fuelling inequality and poverty
Article / 23rd February 2016New research by ActionAid reveals how tax avoidance strategies used by some multinational corporations deprive the world’s most impoverished communities of vital revenues. Tax treaties play a facilitating role in many of these schemes – and it is time they came to an end.
World Day for Social Justice 2016 – Time to share the wealth
Article / 19th February 2016The pursuit of social justice has long been fundamental to the UN’s mandate to promote equitable development and human dignity for all, and the theme for this year’s social justice day is ‘A Just Transition – environmentally sustainable economies and societies’.