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Philanthrolateralism: Private funding and corporate influence in the United Nations

Article / 28th September 2017

In order to make the UN system really ‘fit for purpose’, member states and UN bodies have to take bold action to overcome selective multilateralism, the weakening of democratic governance, and the financial erosion of public institutions. A special issue article by Karolin Seitz and Jens Martens for Global Policy.

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World hunger is on the rise again

Report / 18th September 2017

A UN report it reveals that in 2016 the number of chronically undernourished people in the world is estimated to have increased to 815 million, up from 777 million in 2015, although still down from about 900 million in 2000.

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End austerity – and kickstart Martin Luther King’s revolution of values

Report / 18th September 2017

Fifty years ago, at New York’s Riverside Church, Martin Luther King made a passionate plea for a more equal, more just, more peaceful and more dignified world. Calling for “a radical revolution of values”, King concluded: “We must rapidly begin … the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.

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Removing barriers to justice is possible

Report / 13th September 2017

A joint civil society report explains how a treaty on business and human rights could improve access to remedy for victims, with seven key recommendations for practical reforms.

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Beyond state capitalism: The commons economy in our lifetimes

Article / 13th September 2017

In considering the essential problem of how to produce and distribute material wealth, virtually all of the great economists in Western history have ignored the significance of the commons—the shared resources of nature and society that people inherit, create and utilize.

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Quantitative easing for wealth redistribution

Blog / 13th September 2017

Following the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession in its wake, the ‘new normal’ in monetary policy has been abnormal.

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Climate migrants might reach one billion by 2050

Article / 7th September 2017

Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and water, and the consequence of severe livelihoods conditions, famine and starvation.

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‘It’s a slow death’: the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

Article / 7th September 2017

The United Nations has called the situation in Yemen the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with more than 10 million people who require immediate assistance. And the situation could become even worse.

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A tale of two 1 percents

Blog / 7th September 2017

There is abundant prosperity in the United States - it is time we shared it, writes Ben Leet for Inequality.org

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Fighting famine: 'Unprecedented crisis' putting 20 million people at risk, warns UN agency

News / 15th August 2017

Twenty million people risk dying of hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and the north-east of Nigeria, including 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations food relief agency said, spotlighting today its worldwide campaign to fight famine.

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