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In this joint paper by Christian Aid and the Center for Economic and Social Rights, Kate Donald, Ignacio Saiz, Sergio Chaparro et al discuss what the world would look like if economies were based on human rights. In sketching the vision of a rights-based economy (RBE), they argue that its primary purpose would be to guarantee the material, social and environmental ...

Just Net Coalition, along with more than 170 civil society groups addressed an Open Letter to the UN Secretary General urging him to shelve plans for a High Level Multistakeholder Body which, if set up, can be expected to become the default apex global digital governance and policy body. This body is to be privately funded, with strong hints also at a 'pay to play' model. It is but ...

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung organizes an international series of online events between late March and May 2021 under the title “Farmworkers: Considered essential but exploited”. This series of three online events seeks to highlight the experiences of farmworkers and shed light on their working and living realities. The series will discuss, among ...

In a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations—from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras—The Water Defenders presents the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic ...

On Friday 18th of December, the second official week of CFS policy negotiations ended.This second week was expected to finalize the Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition, scheduled to be endorsed at CFS 47th Plenary Session in February 2021. The week from 14 to 18 of December, with a total amount of 45 hours of virtual meetings in five days, has nevertheless confirmed that the content ...

The new article "Economics and climate emergency", written by Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan, is free available.In this essay authors provide introductory comment for the collection of essays on Economics and Climate Emergency.The purpose of this collection of essays in Globalizations  is to critically address the relationship between economics, especially mainstream economics, though with ...

It is available the full video of 'Reclaiming Democracy from Below: from the Contemporary State Capitalist System to People's Sovereignty'.People’s Sovereignty Network (PSN)  held this session within the online Symposium that EXALT (Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative) organized on October 21-23, 2020.

The report released by Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism is "Gender, Covid-19 and Food Systems: impacts, community responses and feminist policy demands".The report summarizes research around the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on women in and across the constituencies and regions of the CSM. It reports also acts of mutual aid and solidarity, as well as negative impacts ...

Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSM) issued Global Synthesis Report on Covid-19."Voices from the ground: from Covid_19 to radical transformation of our food systems" presents the experiences and concerns of millions of small-scale food producers, workers, consumers, women and youth represented in the organizations that participate in the CSM.From the ...

EXALT (Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative) will hold an online Symposium on October 21-23, 2020. There will be seven sessions covering different aspects of global extractivisms and alternatives.Thursday 22nd of October, at 16.00-18.00 (EEST), People’s Sovereignty Network (PSN) will hold the session: 'Reclaiming Democracy from Below: from the ...