by adminrise | Sep 15, 2020 | Engage and involve
On September 3, 2020, the Ejido of Carrizalillo (Guerrero, Mexico) revoked its recently-negotiated agreement with Equinox Gold over the company’s refusal to address violations of the agreement, and shut down the Los Filos mine. There is serious concern for the...
by adminrise | Sep 7, 2020 | Learn and practice
The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences including the Buenos Aires meeting in December 2017 failed to reach agreement. The US Trump Administration launched a campaign to reform the WTO in...
by adminrise | Sep 7, 2020 | Engage and involve
In this dire moment for Brazil, hope lives within the social movements on the frontlines of the pandemic. This campaign was created to allow people around the world to contribute with the struggle of the Indigenous, the quilombola (Black rural communities), the...
by adminrise | Sep 1, 2020 | Development issues
The Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated how irrational the financial sector has become. Even as the real economy has ground to a halt, stock prices have gyrated wildly, first collapsing, then shooting up. Even as hundreds of millions suffer, big tech corporations like...
by adminrise | Sep 1, 2020 | Development actions
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing countries to reassess and recalibrate their national and foreign policies. The need for the structural transformation of economies, which has eluded many developing countries, has never been greater. Structural transformation is the...
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