COVID-19

As the global economy continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic, civil society groups have a rare chance to push policymakers toward bold reforms to free struggling nations from sovereign debt.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains how policymakers on the international level can make sure that the post-pandemic recovery doesn't make economic injustice even worse.

In Guatemala, women with disabilities face exclusion, stigmatization, and worse. Thankfully, one collective, Mujeres Con Capacidad de Soñar a Colores, is responding through research, organizing, and art.

Despite all we have learned about how to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the government of Mexico is still doing far too little to protect the health of the people in the country’s jails and prisons.

Rather than shift the blame onto individuals who are forced to make impossible choices, policymakers should confront the virus through systemic reforms that center racial justice and public health.

By helping low-income countries with policy challenges relating to sovereign debt, tax dodging, and workers’ rights, the United States can begin to repair its alliances and reputation.

Few people in Britain have been more upended by the pandemic than migrant women. Thankfully, grassroots organizations like the Latin American Women’s Rights Service are helping this community find solidarity and strength.

Despite the clear, unfair, and gendered implications of global COVID-19 outbreaks, too many policymakers’ responses are failing to account for the needs of women and girls. Now is the time to demand better.