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COVID-19. GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH REMAINS A “PRIVATE THING”

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 →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Health, Neo-liberalism

To “transform the world”, only one solution: full support to democratic multilateralism

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 →

Civil Society, Democracy, Multilateralism & Unilateralism

Pushing the Reset Button will not Change the Game

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 →

Civil Society, Health, History

A Third World War – Which so Many Had Feared — Has Been Avoided, Says UN Chief

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 →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Democracy, Environment, Health, Immigration and Refugees

Bolivia reverses years of progress with new draconian coca policy, supported by the EU

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 →

Civil Society, Commerce, Economy / Finance, History

Recovery in the age of Covid-19, as if people matter

*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 →

Civil Society, Health

Open letter to the UN Secretary General

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 →

Civil Society, Human Rights

The vernacular and the utopian

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 →

Civil Society, History, Politics

“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING AND TRADING“

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 →

Civil Society, Digital Age, Information & Communication

Towards a New World Social Forum

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 →

Civil Society, Democracy

A pandemic of psychological pain

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 →

Civil Society, Health

Covid-19 Pandemic Another Threat to Indigenous Communities

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 →

Civil Society, Health, Human Rights, Racism

Steering Societies Beyond GDP to SDGS

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 →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Information & Communication

How the Pandemic Defeated America

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 →

Civil Society, Health, Radical extremism

ETHICAL MARKETS AND GLOBESCAN-GLOBAL SURVEY/BEYOND GDP

“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 →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Economy / Finance

A LETTER TO THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

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 →

Civil Society, Democracy

Fight Pandemic, Not Windmills of the Mind

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 →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Health

A Plan for Social and Ecological Justice

By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization                                                  The death of John Lewis is a reminder that power concedes nothing… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Development, Environment

Voter Suppression in 2020

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 →

Civil Society, Development, Environment, Health

Moral leadership in the age of the Covid

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 →

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