Topic: Inequality
Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners!
Article / 4th October 2019After centuries of enclosure, privatisation and colonisation, it's time that the commons were returned to all of us, writes Guy Standing in openDemocracy.
World leaders must stop fuelling inequality
Article / 28th August 2019As global leaders gather in the coming months at several summits and meetings, the following open letter is written by the growing global movement to fight inequality - calling out the failure of the current approach by governments and to set out a vision for radical change.
Income inequality reaches crisis level in West Africa
News / 10th July 2019West African Governments have been blamed for the worsening poverty and inequality levels in their countries. According to the Oxfam and Development Finance International report published Tuesday, inequality is at crisis levels in West Africa.
New campaign video: Let’s reclaim the United Nations founding vision!
Blog / 5th July 2019We recently teamed up with the team at Seven Billion Today to produce a short promotional video that summarises STWR's key campaign message for use on social media.
Global inequality in a time of climate emergency
Article / 26th June 2019Every national campaign for tackling climate change also needs an international justice plank, because we’re not going to get anywhere near the Paris temperature targets without global sharing and cooperation, writes Tom Athanasiou for Inequality.org.
UN’s Development Goals remain largely elusive
Article / 26th June 2019The United Nations, in a new report to be released next month, has warned “there is no escaping the fact that the global landscape for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generally deteriorated since 2015, hindering the efforts of governments and other partners”.
‘Everybody has the right to live’: The visionary budget at the heart of our moral uprising
Report / 19th June 2019Basic living standards like adequate housing, health care, education, safe drinking water, and access to work and fair wages are rights, not privileges. A moral society will guarantee these to ALL people, write Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev Dr Liz Theoharis.
Nearly half of all child deaths in Africa stem from hunger, study shows
News / 5th June 2019One in three African children are stunted and hunger accounts for almost half of all child deaths across the continent, an Addis Ababa-based thinktank has warned.
Annual Report for 2019: Share the World’s Resources
Report / 9th May 2019As public awareness grows of a multifaceted global emergency, STWR has persisted throughout 2018 in its efforts to promote international economic sharing as the only viable path towards a sustainable future.
The UK must protect economic and social rights with a new law – here’s what should change
Article / 1st May 2019The UK is an outlier for subscribing to international treaties that enshrine socioeconomic rights, but without incorporating them in domestic law, writes Koldo Casla and Peter Roderick.