Topic: Global governance

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'Unprecedented' changes to world economy and society required to avoid climate chaos, UN report warns

News / 8th October 2018

Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is “unprecedented in scale”, the United Nations has warned.

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World Bank reports slower progress on extreme poverty

News / 25th September 2018

The war in Syria and a population surge in sub-Saharan Africa have undermined efforts to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty, the World Bank has said. 

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Systemic alternatives: A book compilation edited by Pabo Solón

Report / 31st August 2018

Complementarities between Vivir Bien, degrowth, the commons, deglobalisation and other proposals are fundamental to advance in the process of constructing systemic alternatives, according to a book compilation edited by Pabo Solón and published by Fundación Solón, Attac France and Focus on the Global South.

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Declaration on the rights of peasants awaiting final voting and adoption

News / 17th August 2018

After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a ‘United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas’ is now at the point of being finalised.

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Sustainable development off-track without fundamental policy changes

Report / 14th July 2018

“The world is off-track in terms of achieving sustainable development and fundamental policy changes are necessary to unleash the transformative potential of the Sustainable Development Goals.”

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A UN Parliament gains support in an age of divisive political leaders

Article / 13th July 2018

A long standing proposal for the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is slowly gathering momentum.

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A record 68.5 million people in the world were forcibly displaced by the end of 2017, U.N. says

News / 26th June 2018

Every two seconds, someone in the world was forcibly displaced in 2017, according to a new report by the U.N. Refugee Agency.

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Reclaiming the UN’s radical vision of global economic justice

Article / 15th June 2018

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the most translated and celebrated documents in the world, marking its 70th anniversary this year. But relatively few people are aware of the significance of its 25th Article, which proclaims the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living.

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Squeezing the state: Corporate influence over tax policy and the repercussions for national and global inequality

Article / 13th June 2018

Reducing inequality is one of the central pledges of the SDGs, appearing as a stand-alone goal (SDG 10) and as a cross-cutting commitment to “leave no one behind”. Reducing inequality requires resources; both (re)distributing currently available resources more fairly, and raising more resources to invest in goods and services which tackle inequality.

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Toward a sustainable wellbeing economy

Blog / 13th June 2018

The new Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WE-All) is designed to help facilitate a transformation to an economy that meets all fundamental needs within planetary biophysical boundaries. By Robert Costanza et al.

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