Policy Papers

In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries are effectively violating the human rights of millions of the world’s poorest people.

Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world.

Policy makers lament women’s vulnerablity to HIV infection, yet for 15 years they have failed to utilise a technology which can help women to protect and empower themselves.

When trade ministers from 35 countries gather in Geneva at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for what is being billed yet again as a last-ditch attempt to forge a Doha trade deal, t

Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis.

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known.

The year 2008 is halfway to the deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Despite some progress, they will not be achieved if current trends continue.

Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago.

Some donors and governments propose that health insurance mechanisms can close health financing gaps and benefit poor people.

Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid, given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and other vital s