“We don’t need ‘trillions’ to achieve the SDGs”
Blog / 17th July 2017Civil Society activists critique the first week of deliberations at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, by the Global Policy Forum.
Citizens’ wealth funds: An alternative to the inequality escalator
Blog / 1st July 2017Shouldn’t the returns from at least part of our national wealth go to all citizens and not just the already rich? By Stewart Lansley, Inequality.org.
Time to end the Gaza blockade – 9 years on
Blog / 30th June 2017As the blockade imposed by Israel approaches its 9th anniversary, it continues to devastate the lives and livelihoods of 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza.
The politics of ‘progress’: UN report paints a highly partial picture of SDG implementation
Blog / 23rd June 2017The recent Progress Report on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) paints a skewed and misleading picture about how SDG implementation is proceeding, while hindering any form of accountability.
Will the US abandon the world’s poorest?
Blog / 22nd June 2017Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to foreign aid disproportionately target the poorest countries, and serve a signal that this administration is not concerned with fighting poverty, writes Aria Grabowski from Oxfam America.