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Buzzwords and tortuous impact studies won’t fix a broken aid system
Article / 20th July 2018Fifteen leading economists, including three Nobel winners, argue that 'aid effectiveness' projects might yield satisfying micro-results, but they generally do little to change the systems that produce the problems in the first place. What we need instead is to tackle the real root causes of poverty, inequality and climate change.
“We have to redefine policies for sustainable development”
Article / 20th July 2018Three years after its adoption, most governments have failed to turn the proclaimed transformational vision of the 2030 Agenda into real policies. But despite the many gloomy trends, there is still room for change, writes Jens Martens for IPS news.
Sustainable development off-track without fundamental policy changes
Report / 14th July 2018“The world is off-track in terms of achieving sustainable development and fundamental policy changes are necessary to unleash the transformative potential of the Sustainable Development Goals.”
The magnitude of the planetary crisis requires action of a similar size
Blog / 14th July 2018Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International, argues that a complete change to the economic system is necessary if we are ever to confront and transcend the environmental, climatic and social crises upon us
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.
Facing the causes of the problems with immigration
Blog / 5th July 2018The root cause of our immigration problems arise out of gross global inequalities, and will have to be dealth with at the international level, sooner or later. Any quest for a solution should also rest on the foundation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, says Peter Marcuse.
Our NHS at 70 is still amazing. Why isn’t there an NHS for the world?
Blog / 5th July 2018The National Health Service turns 70 today. Despite too many years of austerity cuts, contracting out and PFIs, most of us still feel the NHS is one of the defining achievements of our society, writes Nick Dearden from Global Justice Now.
End the wars to halt the refugee crisis
Blog / 28th June 2018"Despite the obvious correlation between Western-sustained wars and the EU’s refugee crisis, no moral awakening is yet to be realized." By Ramzy Baroud.
We celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday. So why forget it’s link to human rights?
Article / 28th June 2018The National Health Service in Britain was inspired by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both now marking their 70th birthday. We can look back at how unrestrained neoliberalism swallowed those dreams of the 20th century and co-opted socioeconomic rights along the way, writes Afua Hirsch.
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.