Topic: Global governance
We can’t trust the IMF and World Bank to lead the COVID-19 recovery
Article / 26th June 2020Despite decades of protests against them, the IMF and World Bank continue to force the same discredited policies on poor governments and their people, writes Lara Merling.
Act now or risk ‘unimaginable devastation’ globally, warns UN chief
News / 29th May 2020Unless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a virtual high-level meeting on financing for development.
Is now the moment for a standing UN ‘911’ service?
Article / 23rd May 2020With a “UN 911” first responder for complex emergencies, the UN would finally have a rapid, reliable capacity to help save millions of lives and trillions of dollars, writes H. Peter Langille for Foreign Policy in Focus.
Uniting behind a people’s vaccine against COVID-19
News / 14th May 2020Over 100 former global leaders call for the mandatory worldwide sharing of a Covid19 vaccine - available to all people, in all countries, free of charge.
People in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system
Article / 7th May 2020Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities, writes Meera Karunananthan for openDemocracy.
Former UN Independent Expert calls for a World Conference on post-COVID-19 recovery
News / 7th May 2020Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, Professor Alfred de Zayas, urges civil society to demand a new social contract based on human dignity, social justice and sustainability.
Time to rally behind the World Health Organization: A civil society statement
Article / 30th April 2020"This is the time to insist on multilateralism, solidarity, and science based health policy making at global and national level. This is the time to rally behind WHO."
Citizen action is central to the global response to COVID-19
Blog / 24th April 2020Now is the time for citizens to ensure that world leaders forcefully respond to the COVID-19 crisis in accordance with human rights, write Isabel Ortiz and Walden Bello.
As coronavirus spreads to poorer countries, here’s how the world can help
Blog / 6th April 2020The time has come for a massively ambitious plan to overcome the impacts of the coronavirus crisis in developing countries, and on a scale we’ve never seen before in our lifetimes. By Chema Vera from Oxfam International.
Toward a great ethics transition: The Earth Charter at twenty
Article / 21st February 2020The Earth Charter recognises that achieving social and economic justice will require both ensuring ecological integrity, as well as the rights to freedom of opinion, expression and peaceful assembly etcetera. Written by Brendan Mackey for the Great Transition Initiative.