G20’s legitimacy depends on treatment of world’s poorest, UNDP chief says
Sao Paulo, Brazil Reuters The legitimacy of the Group of 20 economic powers depends on its impact on the world’s poorest people, not just controlling inflation, the head of the United Nations Development Programme said on Tuesday. Finance ministers from the G20 are meeting in Brazil this week with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva […]
Essay: The UN and the multi-lateral system are in crisis – what the Global South must do
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics MONICA HERZ and GIANCARLO SUMMA look at the challenges facing the United Nations…
UN Secretary-General calls for equality for Global South at Cuba G77 summit
Havana, Cuba Reuters United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday praised efforts to support the Global South in the international arena as he opened a summit of the G77 group of developing nations and China with host Cuba. The focus is the scientific and technological divide between rich and poor countries and its impact on […]
The Explainer: The Global South is on the rise – but what exactly is the Global South?
JORGE HEINE, interim director of the Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what the term means…
Postcards: Children from Global South make their presence felt at climate summit
GLORIA DICKIE and MAI SHAMSELDIN, of Reuters, report from COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh…
At Lambeth, Anglican Communion abandons vote on same-sex marriage
Canterbury England RNS The prejudice felt by gay people over same-sex marriage is the new racism, according to the head of the Episcopal Church of the United States. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, in an interview with Religion News Service on Tuesday, said that in the United States, “the issue of gay […]
Essay: Digital labour platforms subject global South workers to “algorithmic insecurity”
Researchers HANNAH J DAWSON and RUTH CASTEL-BRANCO, of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the issue of “algorithmic insecurity”…
ESSAY: TRUMP OR NO TRUMP, US EVANGELICALS AREN’T CUSTODIANS OF THE WORLD”S GOSPEL WITNESS
Against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s visit to India this week, Rev JOSEPH D’SOUZA, president of the All India Christian Council, says the voice of Christians from the “global south” has been overlooked in the debates over the President…
Citing inclusion of LGBT clerics, Anglican bishops in Africa to shun Lambeth Conference
Nairobi, KenyaRNS As disputes over homosexuality continue to stir within the worldwide Anglican Communion, conservative African bishops say they will boycott a decennial gathering of top clerics next summer unless what the Africans consider Godly order is restored. After delaying the Lambeth Conference, normally held once a decade, for two years, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin […]
ESSAY: WHERE IS CHRISTIANITY HEADED? THE VIEW FROM 2019
WESLEY GRANBERG-MICHAELSON, a former general secretary of the Reformed Church in America and author of Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century, looks at the challenges for the church in the year ahead…