Blogs
Crafting a treaty to stop corporate impunity: the challenges we face in the Fifth Session
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 14 October 2019
Social movements, environmental groups, trade unions and campaigners have once again organised a “Week of Mobilisations” in Geneva to follow and influence the five-day negotiation process of the United Nations […]
Read moreDegrowth and the perspectives about it from the South
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 19 September 2019
Campaigns: Climate
Degrowth is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics, anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas that seek to address the limits-to-growth dilemma.
Read moreG7 Summit 2019: The super-rich countries fight against inequality they themselves created
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 25 August 2019
The 45th Summit of the seven richest capitalist countries, known as the Group of Seven or G7, opened in the south-western French city of Biarritz, in the French Basque Country, […]
Read moreAround the world people are standing with Ecuador against Chevron
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 22 May 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Yesterday Global Justice Now joined 268 organisations, trade unions, movements and networks from different countries representing hundreds of millions of people in signing a letter addressed to President Lenin Moreno […]
Read more25 years after the triumph of hope: South Africa’s lingering social justice challenges
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 10 May 2019
I still vividly remember the night of 26 April 1994. It was the night of the burial of apartheid and the eve of South Africa’s first all-race elections. In a […]
Read moreExtinction Rebellion have put climate back in the headlines. What should the next steps be for addressing the climate emergency?
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 26 April 2019
Campaigns: Climate
Extinction Rebellion’s sustained and inspiring civil disobedience actions that lasted for almost two weeks have put climate change issues front and centre where they belong. But there are learnings that we must take forward.
Read moreIs the UK prepared for a Super China and its global New Silk Road?
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 9 April 2019
For the first time since the European Union (EU) and China forged the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2003, Brussels has adopted a shift in its approach towards what is currently the world’s second-biggest economy.
Read moreThe UK’s post-Brexit immigration regime will help business exploit migrant workers
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 27 February 2019
Campaigns: Migration
It is true that globalisation has created benefits for consumers, businesses and suppliers. It is propelled, however, by global supply chains, or the dominant practice of sourcing goods and services […]
Read moreGlobalisation doesn’t have to be neoliberal. Our challenge is still to alter it
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 21 January 2019
There are more people now who are aware that we are facing the deep, joint and linked crises of the environment and inequality. Both have already reached very unsustainable levels never seen before.
Read moreLeading the world backwards: Governments are merely agreeing to disagree on trade and global warming
By: Dorothy Guerrero
Date: 4 December 2018
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
As world leaders finalised the Group of Twenty’s (G20) Agreements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, government and civil society climate representatives started arriving in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of […]
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