May 8, 2012 | News
IfE has convened a global Equity Treaty Circle to facilitate the negotiation of a People’s Sustainability Treaty on Equity by civil society groups and individuals around the world. The Equity Treaty will be finalized at the People’s Summit in Rio, June 2012, and...
Apr 1, 2012 | News
IfE’s top priorities right now are the global Equity Treaty and the local Equity & Sustainability Field Hearings. The Equity Treaty, convened by IfE and involving organizations from each continent, will facilitate a broad-based civil society dialogue on how equity...
Mar 31, 2012 | News
Initiative for Equality (IfE) had a strong presence at the March 2012 Planet Under Pressure global science conference to present input in advance of the Rio+20 Summit. The conference, convened by the UN-affiliated Global Environmental Change research programmes, was...
Mar 29, 2012 | News
Inequality is a major barrier blocking the world from moving towards sustainability, according to a presentation by IfE’s Deborah Rogers at the recent Planet Under Pressure conference (London, March 2012). Inequality blocks sustainability in a number of ways, Rogers...
Feb 15, 2012 | News
Global inequality is increasing, according to a report written by Roberto Guimaraes and published by the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs in 2005. According to “The Inequality Predicament“, since 1960, income inequality has risen in 48 of 78...
Feb 2, 2012 | News
IfE will have a strong presence at Planet Under Pressure, the global science conference to present input in advance of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The conference will be held in London on 26 – 29 March, 2012. Read more about it here. Deborah Rogers and Uchita de Zoysa...