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Articles and opinion

The ILO’s Global Social Protection Week needs to address austerity, the elephant in the room

Article / 26th November 2019

Financing social protection systems that are both adequate and sustainable is not a fantasy. There are a number of measures that governments can take to raise the resources needed, writes Evelyn Astor for Equal Times.

Imagine... a world that shares

Article / 25th November 2019

Do we really understand what ‘sharing’ means in its totality? For humanity has done everything but actually put into practice a just and equitable redistribution of the food and resources of the world, so that no-one need go without. By Marc Gregory. 

What INGOs can learn from Greta Thunberg and the global climate strikes

Article / 15th October 2019

Combining analysis, outrage and active citizenship can build and sustain large-scale public engagement, writes Stephen McCloskey for openDemocracy Transformation.

We need biodiversity-based agriculture to solve the climate crisis

Article / 4th October 2019

Regenerating the planet through biodiversity-based ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species and all beings. It is not just a climate solution, but also a path to eradicating world hunger, explains Dr. Vandana Shiva.