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Demanding justice beyond rhetoric

Time to overcome contradictions and hypocrisy in the COVID-19 crisis

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Preface

 

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Chapter 1 - Diverging recovery - deepening inequalities

By Barbara Adams and Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum

 

Special Contribution 1.1 The struggle for the TRIPS waiver

By K.M. Gopakumar, Third World Network

 

Special Contribution 1.2 COVAX: Risks and side effects of multi-stakeholder governance

By Harris Gleckman, Associate, Transnational Institute

 

Special Contribution 1.3 The WHO pandemic treaty proposal: responding to needs or playing COVID geopolitics?

By Nicoletta Dentico, Society for International Development (SID)

 

Special Contribution 1.4 Challenging decades of privatization and de-funding of public services

By Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI)

 

Special Contribution 1.5 IMF Special Drawing Rights - a historic financial boost to counter the COVID-19 crisis?

By Bodo Ellmers, Global Policy Forum

 

Special Contribution 1.6 Large corporations cash in on COVID-19 recovery

By Matti Kohonen, Financial Transparency Coalition

 

Special Contribution 1.7 The UN Food Systems Summit - the wrong way to respond to the global food crisis

By Magdalena Ackermann, SID and Charlotte Dreger, FIAN

 

Special Contribution 1.8 What have we learned about gender equality during the pandemic?

By Vanita Nayak Mukherjee and Shree Baphna, DAWN

 

Special Contribution 1.9 Recovery in education: The imperative to support and invest in the education workforce

By David Edwards, General Secretary, Education International

 

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Chapter 2 - Exacerbated crisis in many countries

By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

 

Special Contribution 2.1 Citizens Monitoring COVID-19 Response Programmes: The Philippine experience

By Social Watch Philippines

 

Special Contribution 2.2 Lebanon's multiple crises

By Rasha Fattouh, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)

 

Special Contribution 2.3 Lessons from Colombia: To address the causes of social unrest, be serious about progressive tax reforms 

By Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Center for Economic and Social Rights

 

Special Contribution 2.4 Time for feminist transformative policies: Towards a national care system in Argentina

By Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, DAWN

 

Special Contribution 2.5 Vulnerabilities and policy priorities for South Africa's COVID-19 third wave

By Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)

 

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Chapter 3 - Time for transformative policies at all levels

 

Chapter 3.1 - A rights-based economy: In critical times, a roadmap for action

By Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

 

Chapter 3.2 - Now is the time to reclaim public services

By Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI)

 

Chapter 3.3 - Steps to prevent a global debt and austerity pandemic

By Isabel Ortiz, Global Social Justice, and Matthew Cummins, Senior Economist