“This public-private partnership will permanently associate the UN with transnational corporations, some of whose essential activities have caused or worsened the social and environmental crises that the...
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The neoliberal trap the Modi government finds itself in is not just an Indian phenomenon, says India’s eminent economist C.P. Chandrasekhar who explains we are staring at a crisis which is enduring and...
Taking the example of cab-hailing app Uber, the Director of IT for Change says that we will need to go to the heart of what a digital economy is and the role of capital and workers in it if we are to really...
A historic launchpad for neoliberal globalization, global elites once again embrace the World Trade Organization. This time as a “coalition of the willing” launching an initiative of proposed new WTO rules for...
South Africa hosts an event unpacking a WTO ECommerce initiative that far from delivering on a promise of ‘ECommerce for Development’ would deepen digital divides and perpetuate concentrated wealth and power...
Marking the 75 year anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration of Philadelphia, we explore this historic Bill of Rights through the lens of Alain Supiot, author of The Spirit of Philadelphia: Social Justice vs. the...
To mark the 100 year centenary of International Labor Organization and the 75 year anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia, we present the full length original footage of Alain Supiot’s 2010 ILO Public...
The alarming rise of poverty in the UK is deliberate – and so too in the US says Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, discussing findings of his final report on the United Kingdom...
The process of globalization has reached a stage where transnational corporate driven governance systems are displacing democracy and nation-states says Harris Gleckman in a 2 part interview unpacking...
No stakeholder-based global governance system comes close to matching the democratic legitimacy of a citizen-based and nation-state-based governance system, says Harris Gleckman, who advocates three...