Topic: Global governance
Let’s abolish the colonial IMF on its 80th birthday
Blog / 23rd August 2024From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis, writes Arthur Larok.
‘Bedrock of peace’ under attack, Secretary-General warns
News / 29th February 2024Around the world, governments must step up and commit to working for peace and security rooted in human rights. We urgently need a new commitment to all human rights — civil, cultural, economic, political and social, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Can the IMF and the World Bank really be changed?
Blog / 1st February 2024A geopolitical bias, outdated governance and a too market-oriented framework are only some of the structural deficits of these institutions, writes Jayati Ghosh.
Put the UN in charge of international taxation
Blog / 22nd November 2023Almost a decade of multilateral negotiations on a global tax treaty at the OECD has yielded insufficient progress. The question to be decided this week is whether the United States and the European Union will see the light and support a different approach.
Na poti k univerzalnemu temeljnemu dohodku za vse človeštvo
Report / 20th November 2023Pod okriljem Združenih narodov je mogoče v vsaki državi uvesti resnično univerzalni in brezpogojni temeljni dohodek. A za to bo sprva potrebna izjemna podpora javnosti pri odpravljanju lakote in nepotrebnega pomanjkanja na podlagi pravičnejše delitve svetovnih virov, kot poudarja Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi.
If current trends continue, the world’s poor may not achieve a single development goal by 2030
Blog / 22nd June 2023Eight years after the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world’s low-income countries have struggled to achieve even a single goal.
Reshaping multilateralism in times of crises
Blog / 16th May 2023A new report - Spotlight on Global Multilateralism - offers critical analyses and presents recommendations for strengthening democratic multilateral structures and policies.
The Water Justice Manifesto
Article / 24th March 2023STWR joins the call of social movements at the 2023 UN Water Conference to insist that ‘water justice’ based on human rights is at the centre of policies to solve the global water crisis.
What if…there was a World Tax Organisation?
Blog / 17th February 2023There is a practical, possible alternative to the enduring injustice of global inequality: an intergovernmental tax body under the auspices of the United Nations, writes Alex Cobham.
WTO deal on vaccine patents decried as a 'sham' dictated by rich nations, big pharma
News / 26th July 2022The World Trade Organization's 12th Ministerial Conference ended with an agreement on patent rights that campaigners said would do virtually nothing to address vast global inequities in coronavirus vaccine and treatment access.