Human Rights Watch | UN member countries should work to align the emerging United Nations tax convention with international human rights law to achieve its objective of advancing sustainable development, seven human rights groups said today in a submission to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commit...
The Guardian | Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse. The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world rather than the “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”, according...
Tax Justice Network | The fourth session of negotiations on a world-first UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation concluded last week in New York, bringing countries significantly closer to a consolidated zero draft ahead of the August negotiation session. Over eight days, governmen...
Oxfam | “This is the first ever meeting of world leaders, in history, where the inequality emergency was put at the center of the agenda. This is testament to South Africa’s leadership – one that put the billions before the billionaires.
Source: Oxfam.
Commissioned by the G20 South Africa Presidency | Inequality is one of the most urgent concerns in the world today, generating many other problems in economies, societies, polities and the environment.
Source: G20 Reports.
The Forum New Economy is a non-partisan platform that was founded in Berlin in 2019 with the aim of finding new solutions and a new overarching paradigm for the major challenges of climate change, growing inequality and globalization as well as redefining the role of the state. It supports innovativ...