Topic: Corporate power
The big question about British foreign aid is always missed: what is it supporting?
Blog / 9th June 2021If aid is to meaningfully tackle poverty, it can’t just be about charity. Instead, it should be about redistributing the world’s resources and dismantling the power structures that maintain global inequality, writes Aisha Dodwell.
A corporate tax reset by the G7 will only work if it delivers for poorer nations too
Blog / 4th June 2021G7 negotiations for a global minimum corporate tax rate offers the opportunity for a transformational shift in responses to the pandemic, explains Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network.
Poor pushed aside as corporates pocket pandemic funds in developing countries
Report / 2nd June 2021Large corporations, rather than ordinary people, have been the main beneficiaries of Covid bailout funds in many lower-income countries.
A call for the WHO not to encourage the privatisation and commercialisation of healthcare amidst a COVID-19 crisis
News / 27th May 2021On the first day of the World Health Assembly, civil society organisations have sent an open letter to the WHO critisicing the encouragment of privatisation of healthcare amidst a COVID-19 pandemic.
Covid vaccines create 9 new billionaires with combined wealth greater than cost of vaccinating world’s poorest countries
News / 21st May 2021At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines are making.
The WTO’s own policies have caused its existential crisis, which the COVID-19 crisis only amplified
News / 30th April 2021Over 200 organisations from 67 countries call for the transformation of the WTO into a completely new framework for international trade that is fit for the 21st century – which means it puts people and the planet first.
Second edition of STWR's flagship book now available: ‘Heralding Article 25’
News / 31st March 2021Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have released a revised second edition of the campaigning book by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled 'Heralding Article 25: A people's strategy for world transformation'.
Vaccine nationalism is patently unjust
Article / 26th March 2021Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill. It is perhaps the worst display of national selfishness in modern history, writes Nanjala Nyabola for the Nation.
Rich states 'block' vaccine plans for developing nations
News / 23rd March 2021Wealthy countries - including the UK - are blocking proposals to help developing nations increase their vaccine manufacturing capabilities, documents leaked to BBC Newsnight show.
Global South urges rich countries: Lift monopolies on COVID-19 medical products
News / 16th February 2021Ahead of critical talks at the World Trade Organization, civil society and trade unions from the Global South are calling on rich countries’ leaders to stop blocking a proposal to waive certain intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and other medical products.