The international legal systems deployed to restrain the arms industry in the face of violations of human rights and humanitarian law are demonstrably weak. In certain areas, collective action has attempted to address this.
What are the keys to the “plan A” for air quality and climate change? We considered three goals to be the most important: pollution, the use of public space, and climate change. We regard...
Back in April, EU heads of state and government agreed a coronavirus rescue package worth over €500 billion for the countries hardest hit by the crisis. However, the support in this package only took the form of low-interest loans.
It began with a rather bizarre situation. Carlota Salomon, 26 years a doctor at the “José María Penna” hospital, Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, had put on her elaborate protective clothing and approached her first coronavirus patient to draw blood. The doctor saw how the woman lying in her hospital bed was frightened by her astronaut’s gaze.
The RLS Brussels Office is issuing a call for authors for a report on European citizens' initiatives. This report should analyse the reasons for the failure of past citizens' initiatives and put forward proposals for alternative direct-democracy tools.
Private interests are currently grabbing an enormous energy resource: wind. The transition away from fossil fuels, therefore, runs the risk of enriching elites – chiefly land owners, whose property rights extend upwards by Medieval principle.
The Green New Deal(s) the world needs now
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