Gordon Brown
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Summon a Special Tribunal for Putin’s Crimes in Ukraine
Gordon Brown calls for a new body to investigate and prosecute Russian aggression and other offenses. → Read More
How we plan to indict President Putin at the International Criminal Court
Today, we publish the text of a criminal indictment against Putin for initiating and executing Russia’s war of aggression, writes Gordon Brown → Read More
Vaccine inequality is an ethical failure – history will not be kind to the leaders who refused to act
The choices of a few will decide whether or not we face further deadly waves of Covid → Read More
Boris Johnson has a dangerous disregard for the facts over efforts to vaccinate the world
Rather than merely paying lip service to protecting this country and the rest of the globe, the prime minister needs to step up and act → Read More
The G20's Historic Opportunity
With G20 leaders gathering in Rome to discuss the world's most pressing problems, there is a historic opportunity to turn the tide against the coronavirus. But to do so, governments must abandon the toxic nationalism that has so far stood in the way of a sufficient global response to the pandemic. → Read More
Bridging Africa's Health-Care Divide
While the United States and other rich countries in the Global North start to administer COVID-19 vaccination boosters, only 8.5% of African adults have received one dose of vaccine. Immediate and sustained action is needed both to close the vaccination gap and to reverse a dangerous global health-care divergence. → Read More
Cop26 will fail unless rich nations keep their promises to the vulnerable – we cannot afford to be divided
The willingness of the poorest states and developing countries to enter into an agreement depends on the richest nations providing at least the $100bn a year they have pledged → Read More
The World Needs a Breakthrough Year by Graça Machel, et al
Overcoming the COVID-19 crisis and ensuring a rapid and equitable economic recovery are only two of the challenges we must meet in 2021. This year will also be a crucial one for achieving the goal of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century. → Read More
Boris Johnson wrecking G7 proposals on corporate tax abuse is the last thing we need
The prime minister has a clear choice. Will he align the UK with the tax havens, and be left behind – or will he help bring home an important measure? → Read More
What the G20 Should Do Now by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, et al
Without further G20 action, the pandemic-induced recession will only deepen, hurting the world’s poorest and most marginalized people the most. Because the group represents 85% of global GDP, it has the capacity to mobilize resources on the scale required – and its leaders must do so immediately. → Read More
Boris Johnson and the Threat to British Soft Power by Gordon Brown
The likely successor to British Prime Minister Theresa May, Boris Johnson, has plans to subsume the government department overseeing development aid into the foreign office, effectively eliminating it. That will destroy a post-Brexit United Kingdom's last chance to maintain any influence or relevance on the world stage. → Read More
Britain’s Renewal After Trump and Brexit by Gordon Brown
US President Donald Trump's long-postponed state visit to the United Kingdom has now come and gone. He leaves in his wake a Britain that is consumed not only by a stalled Brexit and the unending debate about it, but also by a far more profound crisis of identity that Brexit has exposed and aggravated. → Read More
Making “Generation Educated” a Reality by Gordon Brown
Year after year, the international community falls further behind in upholding its commitment to provide quality education to all children by 2030. With the number of out-of-school children having far surpassed crisis levels, it's time to adopt a new approach. → Read More
Can a “No-Deal” Brexit Be Avoided? by Gordon Brown
British Prime Minister Theresa May's party is divided, her cabinet is split, and perhaps half its members are jostling to succeed her. To ensure an orderly withdrawal from the European Union, her government has only one option. → Read More
Globalization at a Crossroads by Gordon Brown
Over the course of the past decade, the world has changed more than at any other time since the World War II era. And, as economic and geopolitical power seeps away from the West, the United States, rather than leading a new multilateral front, has embarked on a self-defeating project of atavistic unilateralism. → Read More
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70 by Gordon Brown
When it was adopted in December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sent the unequivocal message that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. But the UDHR remains constrained by a lack of consensus about why the rights it includes should be regarded as fundamental, let alone who should protect them and how. → Read More
Education’s Moonshot Moment by Gordon Brown
Great feats of human ingenuity and social progress do not happen through half-measures. If the international community is going to meet its commitment to provide a quality education to all children, no matter their circumstances, then it must confront current funding gaps with the boldness that the situation demands. → Read More
Europe’s Refugee Scandal by Gordon Brown
Long-term educational and employment needs have historically been severely undervalued in humanitarian planning. But, as much as refugees need proper food, shelter, and health care today, they also need the knowledge and tools to build new lives and contribute to society tomorrow, whether in their home country or in a new one. → Read More
Maintaining the Momentum Toward Universal Education by Gordon Brown
By 2030 – the year when the world has promised to provide universal primary and secondary education for all – an estimated 800 million people will enter adulthood without the qualifications necessary for the modern labor force. Many of them will be illiterate. → Read More
The New Global Youth Movement by Gordon Brown
Almost a century ago, Eglantyne Jebb, who founded Save the Children, said that the only language everybody could understand was the cry of a child. But as today's young people connect, communicate, and assert their rights, their cries are less likely to be tearful pleas for charity than defiant marches demanding justice. → Read More