Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor from its… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
