A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
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.
Why aren’t Americans rising up like we are seeing across the planet?
Blog / 2nd December 2019The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why aren’t Americans rising up in peaceful protest like our neighbors? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Step up climate action or face catastrophe, says UN report
News / 27th November 2019Global emissions need to be more than halved if we are to save the planet, world’s top scientists agree in a new United Nations report.
The ILO’s Global Social Protection Week needs to address austerity, the elephant in the room
Article / 26th November 2019Financing social protection systems that are both adequate and sustainable is not a fantasy. There are a number of measures that governments can take to raise the resources needed, writes Evelyn Astor for Equal Times.