A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Inequality threatening human development, new global UN report warns
News / 10th December 2019Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme argues in its latest report.
A proposal for the global sharing of basic goods
Report / 9th December 2019The following publication gives an advanced proposal for sharing the world’s resources to alleviate the major crises threatening our civilisation. Translated into English from Slovenian, by Rok Kralj.
US and EU owe more than half the cost of repairing future damage caused by climate disasters
Report / 9th December 2019New analysis sets out how much responsibility the wealthy countries behind the climate crisis must take for the devastating impact that rising global temperatures are already having on developing nations.
It’s time to retire metrics like GDP. They don’t measure everything that matters
Blog / 2nd December 2019The way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore, writes Joseph Stiglitz.
Human rights and the global protests: Addressing systems as well as symptoms
Blog / 2nd December 2019Human rights advocates should be as concerned with the economic injustices giving rise to recent worldwide demonstrations, as with the repressive responses to them writes Ignacio Saiz for the Centre for Economic and Social Rights.