Topic: Corporate power
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.
A tide-turning moment in the global struggle for tax justice
Blog / 5th March 2021It’s not often that you can celebrate an outright, global triumph for the advocacy efforts of a movement. But for tax justice, this is one of those days, writes Alex Cobham for the Tax Justice Network.
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.
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.
Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this
Article / 29th January 2021Every year, US$88.6 billion leaves Africa in the form of illicit capital flight according to the 2020 report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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.
New initiative launched to ‘Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety’
Report / 22nd December 2020A project by Tipping Point North South works to put sustainable human safety at the heart of 21st century foreign, defence, security and international development policy-making.
Land inequality is worse than we thought and rising in most countries
Report / 10th December 2020Land inequality is directly threatening 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people, according to a recent report.