Riccardo Petrella* The United States of Trump tried everything to derail the 75th UN General Assembly and thus jeopardise the future of the United Nations. The president of China, XI Jinping, by unexpectedly declaring on 24 September that his country… Continue Reading
By Federico Mayor* Five years after the Agreement of Paris on climate Change and the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals), the measures adopted have not been implemented, with a very severe… Continue Reading
By Jens Martens* Key messages of the Spotlight on Sustainable Development Report 2020 as September 25 is the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. BONN, Sep 25 2020 (IPS) – Governments have responded… Continue Reading
By António Guterres* The UN Secretary-General, in a statement marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 2020 (IPS) – The ideals of the United Nations – peace, justice, equality and dignity — are beacons to… Continue Reading
By Kathryn Ledebur, Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi (*) – The Conversation Bolivia has seen widespread public protests in recent months against the interim government, led by Jeanine Añez, which has twice postponed elections due to coronavirus. Her government has repeatedly violated… Continue Reading
*Jean Paul Fitoussi and Khalid Malik (*) -The opening sentence of the first UN global human development report in 1990 states ‘people are the real wealth of nations.´ While the sentiment remains profoundly true and the focus of every annual… Continue Reading
By AGORA OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH On Covid-19, Health and Global Public Goods Mr. Secretary General, The UN Economic and Social Council has alerted the international community to growing inequalities in health between the world’s populations, particularly when… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Consult any modern written language dictionary and you will come away with the conclusion that the vernacular and the utopian are opposing concepts. While the vernacular (from the Latin word vernaculus) means that which is… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies. Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper, government-issued fiat and now morphing… Continue Reading
Sept. 1, 2020 Next January the World Social Forum will turn 20 years old. Its appearance in 2001, summoning the various social movements, activists and intellectuals to confront the prevailing neoliberalism, was a worldwide event. From this beginning, there were many mass… Continue Reading
The Economist How to reduce the mental trauma of covid-19 A few cheap steps can make a big difference In ecuador people are still searching for the bodies of relatives who died of covid-19 four months ago. In Italy a boy… Continue Reading
By Angel Mendoza PARIS, Aug 25 2020 (IPS) – The voices of indigenous people worldwide are being silenced and their lives made invisible. Stewards of the earth, they are left at the fringes of public discourse in countries around the… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets The simmering debate has now exploded about whether GDP the ubiquitous index, is a correct measure of overall progress, but still used by governments, financial markets, mass media, companies, and everyone else. Our Ethical… Continue Reading
Story by Ed Yong, Staff writer at The Atlantic A virus has brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees. How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled… Continue Reading
“GLOBAL SURVEY FINDS MOST PREFER EXPANDING GDP WITH HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA” The 2020 GlobeScan-Ethical Markets “Beyond GDP” survey repeats questions asked in 2007, 2009, and 2013 polls in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Kenya, Russia, the… Continue Reading
FROM AN OPEN SPACE TO A SPACE FOR ACTION Is the World Social Forum, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021, just an open space or can it (should it) also be a space for action? This question has been discussed… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 2020 (IPS) – With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions… Continue Reading
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization The death of John Lewis is a reminder that power concedes nothing… Continue Reading
By William S. Becker* As we approach the 100-day mark until the presidential election, there is a lot of talk about voter suppression. For those who are unsure what voter suppression means, here is a working definition: It’s what a… Continue Reading
Paolo Lembo, Khalid Malik, Arsenio Rodriguez – WE THE PEOPLES Recently, at one of his daily addresses on Covid-19, the New York Governor Mario Cuomo posited that ‘government is essential to humanity’. Arguably, one can claim, so is global cooperation,… Continue Reading
