STWR - Share The World's Resources

The global financial crisis could ignite social unrest in Asia and the Pacific as the region is hit by the 'triple crunch' of a worsening poverty, food price instability and climate change, according to a report by ESCAP.

A large part of China’s remarkable economic development has been achieved at the expense of the basic rights of millions of former state-owned enterprise workers, says a new report released by Rights & Democracy and the China Labour Bulletin.

Climate change will reverse decades of social and economic progress across Asia, campaigners claim. A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies - called 'Up In Smoke? Asia and the Pacific' - calls for urgent action to avert the threat. 

On Saturday 6th October 2007 the world as a whole went into ecological debt driven by over-consumption. 'Ecological debt day' is the date when, in effect, humanity uses-up the resources the earth has available for the year, and begins eating into its stock of natural resources.