Living Within Our Means Interview Series The entire world's Overshoot Day is set to occur on July 28, 2022. If people across the world lived like those in the US and Europe, we would need many planets. But we only have one.
"Human rights should be the starting and the ending point" Interview Emilia Reyes is an international advocate for women's rights and an expert on gender-responsive public policies and budgets and sustainable development, including comprehensive disaster risk management and climate change. She highlights the necessity of degrowth and the problems of our global neoliberal system. By Emilia Reyes
"An Education Based on Strengthening Dignity and Respect for Others Has Become Indispensable" Interview Tarcila Rivera Zea from the Quechua-Chanka Nation of Peru has been an important indigenous activist and recognized defender of the rights of indigenous girls, women, youth and peoples for more than 40 years. She provides wisdom on how to educate young people to value Mother Earth. By Tarcila Rivera Zea
"Find a Way to Help your Community Using that Joy" Interview Keya Chatterjee is the Executive Director of US Climate Action Network (USCAN) and author of the book The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby. She lays out how to defend democracy and fight the climate crisis. By Keya Chatterjee
"We Need to Focus and Embrace our Similarities" Interview Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a climate, gender and environmental rights activist, public speaker, writer and Founder of Fridays For Future - Uganda. She explains how climate justice necessarily means social justice. By Hilda Flavia Nakabuye
"Human rights and gender equality are key to making production sustainable" Interview Anna Cavazzini has been a member a Member of the European Parliament for The Greens/EFA since 2019. She shares her thoughts on what needs to be done to secure a circular economy and a just transition. By Anna Cavazzini
June 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The escalation of food inflation on basic staple foods, one which households cannot absorb, and one where no apparent relief is forthcoming, at least in the near-term, is a major concern. pdf
May 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data South African workers, mostly remunerated on extremely low wages, are under enormous stress. pdf
The NPA – The National Postponement Authority on High-profile Corruption Open Secrets: Unaccountable Questionable decision-making, poor leadership and political interference have collapsed public trust in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The current leadership at the authority, lead by Shamila Batohi, has yet to bring about change to address the wrongdoing that has left it vulnerable to corruption.
Reflections On Freedom Dossier Annually, South Africa observes and celebrates Freedom month. The month serves to reflect on South Africa's painful Apartheid past.
