[Taken from ‘From Disparity to Dignity: Tackling Economic Inequality Through the SDGs’, Human Rights Policy Brief, CESR, November 2016. I…
1. Donor countries (the US in particular) continue to push WHO towards working with industry through ‘multi‐stakeholder partnerships’, rather than…
Already the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 interpreted the issue as implying that no State, group or person…
Innovation is not a prerogative of the private sector. 1. More and more, we are seeing a process of outsourcing…
[Mostly abstracted from chapter 18 of the International Panel on Social Progress, 2016] -Inequality in health is a morally significant…
We are witnessing the return of a neo-feudal system based on the governance of the powerful with (questionable) ethical values…
-Mind that the SDGs are indeed permissive of neoliberalism. (G. McNaughton) -However attractive the ideas of neoliberalism are at first…
#: I apologize for this gender insensitive quote that became the title. [Every 50 Readers, I try to write a…
In many countries, democracy and capitalism may actually be oxymorons (contradictory expressions) –and never forget, low intensity democracy leads to…
At the moment, consensus is lacking on how the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can succeed in environments…