A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Faith into action: Building a better world after the pandemic
Event / Saturday, 14th November 2020Join CAFOD for a day of online discussion and workshops on the world we want to create after the pandemic.
Historic process continues at the UN for a binding treaty on transnational corporations
News / 29th October 2020Amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, UN member states are negotiating a second revised draft of the groundbreaking treaty on “transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.”
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January
News / 26th October 2020In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.
A pandemic pivot
Report / 26th October 2020A new book lays out a progressive agenda for the post-COVID era, which relies on a global Green New Deal, a serious shift of resources from the military to human needs, a major upgrade in international cooperation, and a significant commitment to economic equity.
It’s official, the global economy is a ‘debtor’s prison’
Article / 23rd October 2020As the World Bank and IMF sound the alarm on debts driven sky high by Covid-19 in some of the world’s poorest nations, debt ‘relief’ will not cut it – we need a thoroughgoing transformation of the global economy. By Nick Dearden for the New Internationalist.