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Articles and opinion

Is now the moment for a standing UN ‘911’ service?

Article / 23rd May 2020

With a “UN 911” first responder for complex emergencies, the UN would finally have a rapid, reliable capacity to help save millions of lives and trillions of dollars, writes H. Peter Langille for Foreign Policy in Focus.

The case for degrowth in a time of pandemic

Article / 23rd May 2020

What is happening during this pandemic is not degrowth. Our real goal is to purposefully slow things down in order to live meaningfully through commoning, sharing and working less in more equal societies, write Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.

People in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system

Article / 7th May 2020

 Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities, writes Meera Karunananthan for openDemocracy.

Es ist an der Zeit, die Vision der Vereinten Nationen von globalem Teilen und Gerechtigkeit wiederzubeleben

Article / 4th May 2020

Die eskalierende globale Krise erfordert eine beispiellose Umverteilung von Wohlstand und Ressourcen, weshalb Aktivisten die radikale Vision der Vereinten Nationen zur Erreichung von Artikel 25 wiederbeleben sollten.