Topic: Global governance
A UN Parliament gains support in an age of divisive political leaders
Article / 13th July 2018A long standing proposal for the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is slowly gathering momentum.
A record 68.5 million people in the world were forcibly displaced by the end of 2017, U.N. says
News / 26th June 2018Every two seconds, someone in the world was forcibly displaced in 2017, according to a new report by the U.N. Refugee Agency.
Reclaiming the UN’s radical vision of global economic justice
Article / 15th June 2018The 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.
Toward a sustainable wellbeing economy
Blog / 13th June 2018The 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.
Squeezing the state: Corporate influence over tax policy and the repercussions for national and global inequality
Article / 13th June 2018Reducing 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.
Un discorso sugli "ismi" e sul principio della condivisione
Article / 29th April 2018Come possiamo creare la consapevolezza che la condivisione è la soluzione alla crisi planetaria, e la nostra speranza per recuperare un mondo diviso? Il nocciolo di questa domanda è il problema degli “ismi”, che sono l’intellettualizzazione del nostro auto-compiacimento che così giustifica e normalizza la sua esistenza.
Public-private partnerships don’t work. It’s time for the World Bank to take action.
Blog / 25th April 2018This week, executive directors of the World Bank were handed a letter signed by more than 80 civil society organizations and trade unions from around the world, urging a change in the bank’s approach to public-private partnerships.
Implementing the 2030 agenda requires acknowledging extraterritorial obligations
Report / 8th March 2018One year into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the most pressing question is whether the Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be implemented in ways that are universal and integrated, and that protect and even extend human rights.
'Woefully off track': global goals leave behind over half the world's children
News / 8th March 2018More than half a billion of the world’s poorest children are invisible to the international organisations that could help them most.
Africa 'very, very far away' from meeting global target to end child malnutrition
News / 2nd March 2018No African country is expected to reach the UN target of ending childhood malnutrition by 2030, according to a new study.