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New report highlights deep harms of IMF ‘austerity drive’ in poor nations
Report / 17th April 2023"For every $1 the IMF encouraged a set of poor countries to spend on public goods, it has told them to cut four times more through austerity measures," says Oxfam.
Global commons: Ideas to shape the future and a new international economic order
Article / 6th April 2023With a renewal of internationalism again on the agenda, we need to urgently reflect on the concept of the global commons. Do natural resources not belong to all the inhabitants of the Earth?
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.
UN urges global cooperation as quarter of humanity lacks safe drinking water
News / 24th March 2023Amid a lack of global cooperation, the world is far off-track in achieving universal access to clean drinking water by 2030, according to a United Nations report released as officials marked World Water Day.
World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
News / 21st March 2023Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists report.
Most African governments (3 in 4) spend more on arms than feeding their people
Article / 16th March 2023The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.
The ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN high seas treaty
Article / 13th March 2023While campaigners hail a triumph of multilateralism, the new UN treaty has far from declared the high seas to be the 'Common Heritage of Mankind' and it has yet to agree any mechanisms for sharing ocean resources, explains Binoy Kampmark.
‘Profiteering’ of Covid pandemic must never be repeated, world figures warn
News / 13th March 2023A scathing open letter from world leaders calls on governments to “never again” allow “profiteering and nationalism” to come before the needs of humanity in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
UN high seas treaty finally agreed to protect vast swathes of planet's oceans
News / 6th March 2023After 15 years of disagreement, failures and stalled formal and informal talks, there is finally a UN high seas treaty that will help to protect vast swathes of the planet's oceans.
Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally
Report / 3rd March 2023The number of children without access to social protection is increasing year-on-year, leaving them at risk of poverty, hunger and discrimination, according to a new report released by the ILO and UNICEF.