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A message from Islamabad to New York: The demand for tax justice is an unstoppable global tide
On 27 January, a landmark ruling on high-earning individuals and large corporations by Pakistan's newly-established Federal Constitutional Court provided a "powerful blueprint" in seeking an overhaul of the international tax system.
Policy & Finance
Business unusual: UN must push for private sector accountability
The United Nations must clearly define the responsibility of the world's most powerful businesses to help tackle global challenges.
Policy & Finance
Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act
COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
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Earth’s life support is failing. Will we act?
16 September 2025
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Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
9 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Global rollback of women's rights puts SDGs at risk
20 June 2025
Carbon & Climate
In defence of science: Let’s tell the truth on climate and health
Policy & Finance
Green crime goes global
30 May 2025
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Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
30 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Fake ‘threats’: How trans issues become a weapon
8 April 2025
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Carbon & Climate
How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
14 February 2025
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Opinion / Water
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