Topic: Corporate power
Intellectual property cause of death, genocide
Article / 12th February 2021Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organization intellectual property provisions to enable much faster and broader progress in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic should be grounds for International Criminal Court prosecution for genocide.
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm on inequality that everyone can hear
Blog / 29th January 2021As billionaire wealth soars during the pandemic, we may have seen the greatest ever single-year redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy. Influencers worldwide need to be sounding the alarm, writes Sam Pizzigati.
India just had the biggest protest in world history – will it make a difference?
Blog / 27th December 2020In late November, what may have been the single largest protest in human history took place in India, as upward of 250 million people around the subcontinent participated in a 24-hour general strike in solidarity with farmers.
Towards a rights-based economy: Putting people and the planet first
Report / 10th December 2020A joint report by the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and Christian Aid asks a radical question: what would it look like if we had an econmomy based on human rights?
$427bn lost to tax havens every year: landmark study reveals countries’ losses and worst offenders
Report / 25th November 2020Countries are losing a total of over $427 billion in tax each year to international corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, costing countries altogether the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ annual salaries every year – or one nurse’s annual salary every second.
Studies on the principle of sharing
Report / 13th November 2020These seven articles were originally published over the course of 2011 to 2014, during the momentous revolutionary period that followed the global financial crisis. But the vision within this collection of writings goes far beyond that single historical moment and has even greater relevance and urgency today.
New book release: Studies on the principle of sharing
Blog / 13th November 2020Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have now released a book version of the popular articles by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled ‘Studies on the Principle of Sharing’.
Covid-19 has exposed the catastrophic impact of privatising vital services
Blog / 30th October 2020Global markets have failed to provide people with basic needs like housing and water, say present and former UN special rapporteurs.
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.”
Friedman’s failed doctrine
Report / 15th September 2020The social responsibility of business is actually to ensure profits are shared equitably, argues a new report from Oxfam International.