STWR - Share The World's Resources

There is a close link between awareness of problems such as poverty and climate change, and active support for tackling them. Ensuring people have opportunities to learn more about global issues will prevent us from turning inward in a globalised world, says a report by DEA.

Global governance remains ill-equipped to address challenges such as terrorism, climate change and food insecurity. We need genuine multilateral cooperation and renewed institutions to manage shared risks, says a report by the Center on International Cooperation.

The multi-trillion dollar rescues and bail-outs so far just attempt to save the status quo. But what can we do if the status quo can’t be saved? Can globalization from below provide an alternative solution to the great recession? In fact, it has already started to do so. Report by Global Labor Strategies.

A detailed examination of the global justice movement as a representation of public opinion through the activities and objectives of the World Social Forum movement, whose ubiquitous slogan is 'another world is possible'.

This report presents an analysis of the effectiveness of the United Nations and outlines measures which can significantly reform the body to ensure that it can more readily realise its humanitarian mandate and exert greater control over the global economy. 

This South Centre Analytical Note provides a brief background of UN reform since the start of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s tenure in 1997. It outlines tensions that underscore the UN reform process, highlights current UN Reforms and offers developing country perspectives on each. It concludes with some recommendations regarding UN reform.

Kofi Annan's proposals to strengthen the United Nations, promoting a broader understanding of international security and to create a 'global partnership for development'.