Paperback and hardcover editions can be purchased at all major online bookstores. From the preface The 75th anniversary of the UN coincides with a dramatic global health crisis caused by
The annual State of Civil Society Report from the international alliance of civil society organizations CIVICUS has produced results which are reminiscent of their preceding reports, as well as findings from other
In a new report, “UN 2.0: Ten Innovations for Global Governance 75 Years beyond San Francisco,” the Stimson Center, a think tank based in Washington D.C., highlights ten proposals for making
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for “a new grouping of like-minded nations, a new alliance of democracies” against China. The US has raised this idea before: in
In what The Guardian newspaper called “his most stinging speeches to date”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the global crisis of inequality as “a growing threat to our future” that
Transnational organised crime, in short TOC, is a growing problem that represents a global threat to human development, security and democracy. Organized crime groups operate increasingly across borders and spread
Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been leading calls for the formation of a temporary global government to deal with the dual medical and economic threat posed to the
More than 500 political, civil leaders, nobel laureates and leading pro-democracy institutions from across the world, among them over sixty former heads of state and government, have signed a joint
The third Democracy Perception Index (DPI), one of the world’s largest annual surveys on democracy, indicates that people around the globe continue to see democracy as vital but have concerns
More than 200 civil society groups from over fifty countries, among them sixty that operate internationally, call on the United Nations and its member governments to establish the instrument of
A research team from the University of Canberra will convene the first Global Citizens’ Assembly, placing citizens from all over the world at the centre of a conversation about the
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