This year marks the 10th World Day for Decent Work on October 7. A day when working people and their unions, backed by community groups, NGOs, faith groups and others, push the case for d...
The World Economic Forum estimates gender parity globally may now be over 170 years away. Previously they estimated an 80-year time, then it was 120 years. It keeps slowing down. The Foru...
As I stood in New York’s Penn Station on Sunday, commuters in suits and tourists wearing I Love New York T-shirts waited for their trains to Boston, Washington DC and beyond. But looking ...
Almost three years after its adoption, the New York Declaration on Forests remains a landmark moment in the global fight to eliminate deforestation.
The late data wiz and edutainer Hans Rosling once said: “My interest is not data, it’s the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. The idea is to go from numbers to i...
Human trafficking is subject to complicated legal definitions, but the essence of this crime is straightforward: a person who is trapped in a situation of economic exploitation from which...
Clad in a pink tank top and shorts, her face made up with rouge and red lipstick, transgender Muay Thai fighter Nong Rose Baan Charoensuk is a formidable opponent.
What are the current challenges facing the phenomenon of global migration? How has the debate around migration changed in the last 10 years and how will it continue to develop over the ne...
Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping delivered a hearty defence of globalisation. To anyone paying attention during the last several decades this should hav...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is unfolding at a time when human mobility is increasing and, in many instances, becoming more precarious. Last year, the world saw 250 million internatio...
How much does it cost to power the world’s fastest growing economies?
Based on GDP and other measures of well-being, humanity has never been better off. The number of people living in absolute poverty has fallen four-fold since 1980. Fewer people die today ...
Have you ever wondered why the president of the World Bank always seems to be an American? Remarkably, since its foundation in 1946, every single World Bank head has been a US citizen. Ho...
With some of the world’s biggest economies now companies, not states, the benefits for civil society of working more closely with business are clear.
In many countries around the world, civic freedoms have been shrinking: laws to stifle dissent have been passed, rising populism has stirred xenophobia, and those who dare to speak truth ...
