Global commons: Ideas to shape the future and a new international economic order
Article / 6th April 2023With a renewal of internationalism again on the agenda, we need to urgently reflect on the concept of the global commons. Do natural resources not belong to all the inhabitants of the Earth?
The Water Justice Manifesto
Article / 24th March 2023STWR joins the call of social movements at the 2023 UN Water Conference to insist that ‘water justice’ based on human rights is at the centre of policies to solve the global water crisis.
Most African governments (3 in 4) spend more on arms than feeding their people
Article / 16th March 2023The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.
The ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN high seas treaty
Article / 13th March 2023While campaigners hail a triumph of multilateralism, the new UN treaty has far from declared the high seas to be the ‘Common Heritage of Mankind’ and it has yet to agree any mechanisms for sharing ocean resources, explains Binoy Kampmark.
‘Ticking time bombs’ for the world’s most vulnerable children
Article / 23rd February 2023Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II. By Baher Kamal for IPS News.