Berry, Milli Lake (*) – Boston Review Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it. Much has been written about the benefits of electing women to office.
Editorial – The Observer The tragedy on Moria should shame Europe into action Scenes of devastation and desperation at the burnt-out refugee camp at Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, are powerful reminders that Europe’s migrant crisis never really ended. The response of 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…
*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 human development report since then…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Under Trump, the collaboration of armed white supremacist Trump supporters and police is an explosive mix of violence aimed at communities of color. Police in America, whose mottos claim to “protect and serve” us, have been…
By Daniel Carpenter* – Boston Review U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other In 2004 Muriel Ponder joined the U.S.
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 confronting…
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic a new economic global market tool, Sustainability Credits (SCs), promises to help kick start both national and global renewable economic development. Globally, the sale of oil has…
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 specific to a given…
By George Friedman* In 2016, the British government called for a referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union. The British people voted to leave. Since then, there has been a struggle in Britain to reverse the decision and a struggle…
