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Land rights, self-determination and sustainable resource management take on new urgency amid climate and Covid crises
Minorities and indigenous people are often among the most marginalised communities in many societies. Systemically excluded from participation in the socio‐economic life of many (...)
Seen from today’s perspective, with China modernising in leaps and bounds, leading the sectors of the future and confident in its own strength, it’s understandable that the Asian giant’s growth over the last 40 years is often considered to be the most dramatic transformation achieved in the (...)
The last decade has seen a rise of a new type of leader. In countries like Hungary, Brazil, the Philippines, India and the USA, strong men have come into power explicitly promising to “wage war” against elements of their own populations. In the Philippines this has led to a huge rise in (...)
Despite the obvious parallels with coronavirus shutdowns, states still show little determination to put in place the measures we’ll need to deal with the climate emergency. For Andreas Malm, we need to stop seeing climate change as a problem for the future — and use state power now to impose a (...)
The US is using methods of violence against domestic protests it has repeatedly used in its imperial adventures abroad.
As the world was gripped by the shocking scenes of police brutality against the Black community in the United States and the aggressive posture adopted by President Donald (...)
“Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its actions.” (Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish)
Because of the global health crisis related to the Coronavirus pandemic and its impact on people, governments have resorted to restrictive measures including state of (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed in stark terms the fact that our economies are built on the systematic exploitation of workers, whether at our local grocery store or in distant farms, factories and offices producing food, clothing and other necessary goods and services. These workers were (...)
Moving between the Russian, Iranian and Young Turk revolutions, cosmopolitan Armenians helped usher in the 20th century.
On a day like any other, in early 20th-century Tbilisi, the skilled bomb-maker Rostom runs into his wife on the street. Eghsapet, surprised by the sight of her long-absent (...)
In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes.
Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the forefront of mobile telephony and digitalisation. (...)
Adjustment and austerity measures are often among the conditions associated with multilateral loans and have been widely recommended, advocated and even imposed, in recent years, by international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the IMF. The number of countries implementing austerity (...)
From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious.
On the night of 14 August 2010, the captain of a South Korean trawler, the Oyang 70, left Port Chalmers, New (...)
Austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions such as the IMF, regularly cause violations of human rights, says UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky in a report to be presented to the UN General Assembly in October.
“Even though austerity can be a useful tool of administration against the squandering of resources, it is essential to keep in mind that austerity impacts different social groups in very (...)
Trumpism is capitalism’s Plan B.
“I’ve travelled 24 hours, from Manila to Rio, to be here, yet politically I feel I haven’t left home.” Walden Bello, leading light of the ‘anti-globalisation movement’ and former Filipino congressman reflected on the rise of authoritarian right-wing ‘strong men’ from (...)
After The God of Small Things made her a global star, the novelist turned to political writing and activism. Gary Younge finds out why.
Gary Younge: One of the things I’m intrigued by at this moment is the way that we keep getting shocked by elections. Modi in India, the Australian elections – (...)
Sexual health organisations warn women will die if they are forced to seek DIY abortions.
The Trump administration has taken its war on abortion worldwide, cutting off all funding to any overseas organisation or clinic that will not agree to a complete ban on even discussing it.
The Mexico (...)
A decade ago the Left believed that it could use social media to outflank the established mass media. But it is the far right that now dominates social media, writes Phil Hearse.
Two recent events have focused attention on extreme right social media. The shooter in the Christchurch massacre (...)
The most recent target for the US government – and Western big business – is Venezuela. But what is happening to Venezuela is nothing unique. It faces an onslaught from the United States and its allies that is familiar to countries as far afield as Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. (...)
The UNCITRAL process runs a real risk of producing middle-ground solutions that will fail to address the fundamental flaws of the ISDS system and will only further institutionalise and re-legitimise the system. Read this blog written by Bart-Jaap Verbeek:
Between 29 October and 2 November (...)
Dear UNCITRAL Member States:
As representatives of civil society organizations across the globe, we reiterate our unequivocal opposition to the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime and the far-reaching rights for foreign investors enshrined in trade and investment treaties. ISDS and (...)
The new generation of trade agreements currently being negotiated by the EU endangers financial regulation. Worse, they rein in the capacity of states to regulate in the future. By signing them in their current form, governments agree to be deprived of the means to contain or prevent future (...)
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