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How Can We Build a World With Equity and Justice for All?
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity to address barriers to ending extreme poverty
Why Global Citizens Should Care
Without equal rights and fair systems, people living in poverty lack the protections and resources to live peacefully and safely. Global Citizen’s Recovery Plan for the World calls for global justice-centered approaches to COVID-19 relief to help end extreme poverty. You can join us and take action on this issue here.
Ending extreme poverty won’t be possible in a world where people aren’t afforded the same rights or treatment by the legal system because of their identity or socioeconomic background.
Swiss citizens last November voted in a referendum that proposed making Switzerland’s multinational companies responsible for their actions overseas. The Responsible Business Initiative could have marked the beginning of greater control over the behavior of multinationals, not just in their home countries but also overseas. Though a thin majority of people voted in favor, the
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Two bestselling authors in one go: Fair Fight founder Stacey Abrams (left) will be in conversation with celebrated sci-fi/fantasy novelist N. K. Jemisin at SXSW Online this March. (Photo Credits: Abrams photo courtesy of Fair Fight. Jemisin photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)
The Venn diagram sweet spot of people who are going to fangirl over voting rights advocate
Stacey Abrams and sci-fi/fantasy author
N. K. Jemisin is – I suspect – very large. I’m in the overlap. You’re in it, too, right? SXSW is definitely in it.
The multidiscipline festival – which is going 100% virtual this year – led today’s programming announcement with news of Abrams and Jemisin’s keynote conversation together. One assumes their shared reputations for trailblazing – Abrams with her historic voter mobilization in Georgia, Jemisin with that whole three-time Hugo Award for Best Novel thing (note: three times