Global Justice Program

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    Academics Stand Against Poverty: mobilizing the resources and capabilities of academics to accelerate the end of poverty.

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    FemPov: In search of a just and gender-sensitive measure of poverty.

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    The Health Impact Fund: promoting pharmaceutical and access to medicines, across all income levels.

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    Respect for human rights demands greater financial transparency.

Welcome

 

Led by Professor Thomas Pogge, the Global Justice Program at Yale is an interdisciplinary group that works on the assessment and reform of global institutional arrangements. For more information about the Program, people working in and affiliated with the Program, and the Projects that our members and affiliates are engaged in, use the above links.

Annual Global Justice conference 2017 update:

Our Annual Global Justice conference, Onslaughts on the Poor: Corruption, Emissions, Violence took place October 27-29, 2017 at Yale. This public event was jointly organized by the Global Justice Program, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) and Global Financial Integrity (GFI). It focused on tax justice and illicit financial flows, climate justice, and other global-justice issues. Below are video links to some of the presentations, filmed and processed by GJP visiting scholar Xiaoyan Ma. Please see below for video links.

 
 
 
 
Sixth International Conference on Poverty and Sustainable Development: "SDG 1: A World Free from Want - Poverty and Exclusion in the 21st century"

In collaboration with Yale’s Global Justice Program, the above conference will be organized in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM). For further information and instructions on how to participate in the event, please consult the attached flier.  

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The Challenges and Responsibilities of Journalism Today

Discuss the current state of journalism with three hugely interesting and accomplished practitioners: Yale Poynter Fellows Emily Flitter of the New York Times, James Henry of the American Interest, and David Cay Johnston of the DCReport. Thursday, April 4, at 3:30 pm at 77 Prospect Street, Room

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Announcing the Sixth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize - as well as the winners of the Fifth one: Kenneth Okpomo, First Prize, and Janet Oluwayinka Bolarinwa, Second Prize.

There is a prize ceremony in Nairobi (see right-most column) for Okpomo and Bolarinwa to present their winning essays, entitled “Political corruption, illicit financial flows, and the damage they do to the local economy and population: a case study of Nigeria” and “Assessing the Human Impact of

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