A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Financing international cooperation
Article / 28th November 2018The world must get serious about matching multilateral money with multilateral needs, and devote at least 2% of world income to global public goods. And the time has come to think again about new global taxes, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
United Nations: Third committee approves the UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
News / 26th November 2018The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
Civil society demands action on biodiversity loss
News / 26th November 2018The world is facing a biodiversity crisis, and leaders and delegates of the Convention on Biological Diversity must take real action to halt the devastation of global ecosystems. Friends of the Earth International, together with other members of the CBD Alliance, delivered this urgent call for action at the opening of the 14th Conference of the Parties in Egypt.
United Nations: Human rights at risk from tsunami of privatisation
Article / 26th November 2018Widespread privatization of public goods is systematically eliminating human rights protections and further marginalising the interests of low-income earners and those living in poverty, a United Nations human rights expert has said.
Two years into the SDGs – neoliberalised development?
Article / 19th November 2018By removing all discussions about power from their agenda, the SDGs reinforce the status quo of socio-political relations, writes Katerina Gladkova for the Transnational Institute.