Global Justice Post-2015: Registration now open for GJP Annual Conference
Registration is now open for the Yale Global Justice Program, Global Financial Integrity, and Academics Stand Against Poverty 2015 conference, entitled ‘Global Justice Post-2015’, on Friday October 30 to Thursday November 1. This conference will bring together academics, policy makers, and
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Dr. Theron Pummer, Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews, is celebrating his birthday by raising money for four highly effective charities working to improve the health of people living in extreme poverty,
Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
It may seem that, in the absence of explicit treaties, states have no legal obligations to curb their greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, if emissions continue on their present trajectory, the harms they cause will reach catastrophic proportions, putting the human rights of billions of people in
The State of Food Insecurity Report Hides the Extent of Global Hunger
Each year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a State of Food Insecurity (SOFI) report. The 2015 report has just come out. In an accompanying letter, the FAO’s Coordinator for Economic and Social Development, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, summarizes its message as follows: “With the
Call for Papers for Special Issue on the Sustainable Development Goals
Symposion, a Romanian journal of philosophy and social sciences, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The guest editors for the volume are Yale Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and Global Justice Program Director
GJP Annual Conference - Justice in Development at Yale November 7-9
The Yale Global Justice Program, Global Financial Integrity, and Academics Stand Against Poverty are proud to present Justice in Development. This conference will bring together academics, policy makers, and activists to discuss two critical global justice issues: illicit financial flows and
A New, Gender-sensitive Poverty Metric
Global Justice Program Director Thomas Pogge is one of several authors of the Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM), a new, gender-sensitive poverty metric. The IDM was designed to avoid gender biases built into other poverty measures and to define poverty according to the values and experiences of
