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Paying for the pandemic and a just transition
Article / 18th November 2020The Transnational Institute sets out ten proposals to mobilise resources to cover the cost of the global COVID-19 pandemic and to pay for the transition away from the fossil fuel economy.
Over 1,000 health professionals call for G20 to cancel developing countries’ debt
News / 11th November 2020Over 1,000 health professionals from 66 countries have signed a letter urging the G20 to cancel the debt of developing countries, ahead of an extraordinary G20 Finance Ministers meeting.
Why we need a new economic model centred on human rights
Blog / 9th November 2020'Amid a pandemic that has taken over a million lives, we urge the same level of imagination as the drafters of the Universal Declaration over seventy years ago.' By Gabriela Bucher and Olivier De Schutter.
Covid-19 has exposed the catastrophic impact of privatising vital services
Blog / 30th October 2020Global markets have failed to provide people with basic needs like housing and water, say present and former UN special rapporteurs.
Historic process continues at the UN for a binding treaty on transnational corporations
News / 29th October 2020Amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, UN member states are negotiating a second revised draft of the groundbreaking treaty on “transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.”
A pandemic pivot
Report / 26th October 2020A new book lays out a progressive agenda for the post-COVID era, which relies on a global Green New Deal, a serious shift of resources from the military to human needs, a major upgrade in international cooperation, and a significant commitment to economic equity.
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January
News / 26th October 2020In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.
It’s official, the global economy is a ‘debtor’s prison’
Article / 23rd October 2020As the World Bank and IMF sound the alarm on debts driven sky high by Covid-19 in some of the world’s poorest nations, debt ‘relief’ will not cut it – we need a thoroughgoing transformation of the global economy. By Nick Dearden for the New Internationalist.
Global poverty soars as incomes of world’s billionaires hit new highs
Blog / 16th October 2020The phenomenal rise in extreme poverty -– for the first time in 20 years — has been accompanied by an upsurge in the incomes of the world’s billionaires and the super-rich.
In the midst of the pandemic, why is the IMF still pushing austerity on the Global South?
Report / 14th October 2020Despite its own warnings, the International Monetary Fund is risking another ‘lost decade’ for development, reports Soren Ambrose for openDemocracy.