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Check out the latest Newsletter of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) here:
https://t.co/shTIMYBE6A

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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Air pollution from California wildfires imposes serious health burdens on agricultural laborers.
https://t.co/00rx1JMxYL

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Don't miss these terrific essays to be published in Journal ASAP in the next few months! Great work by the four winners!!

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🌍 Celebrating the 2025 Nelson Mandela Essay Prize Winners!

🏆 1st: Evaida Chimedza – "The African Paradox"
🥈 2nd: Grace Gondwe – "Non-Formal Education & Civic Engagement"
🥉 3rd (tie): Clautrida Mutabaruka & Nater Akpen

#MandelaEssayPrize #GlobalJustice #AfricanLeadership

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Just posted!
Video by the winners of the Journal ASAP best book of 2023 award:
Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio, & Eric Marlier:
The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage (Policy Press)
https://t.co/2pamqI3TZD

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ASAP is an international community of scholars and researchers working to end practices that perpetuate global poverty.

If you care about global poverty and finding a solution for it, sign up for our newsletter.

Visit our website at https://t.co/a66JrYYm45 and SUBSCRIBE!

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The Amartya Sen Essay Competition is back!

This year, tackle illicit financial flows (IFFs) & help build a more equitable world.

Analyze a specific IFF component, its harms, and propose solutions.

Deadline: August 31st, 2025.

Details & Apply: https://t.co/08ys9NwOeF

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Extraction of nickel for our batteries is avoidably causing extremely harmful pollution with massive health burdens in Indonesia.
https://t.co/olaPJysRgy

[Sridhar Venkatapuram MSc MPhil PhD MFPH(Hon) FRSA @sridhartweet]

i had no idea he wrote this.
just found this in a bookstore.

The Jews in Palestine
Mahatma Gandhi 1938

https://t.co/235m9Z0o6y

[ASAP @AcademicsStand]

Calling all changemakers in #India!

AGAPE is searching for ideas to tackle poverty.

We're offering grants to pilot projects that show promise for scaling up and improving the lives of countless people.

Apply for the AGAPE Grant here: https://t.co/E4nzYhDgwg

#AGAPE #Grant

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World Malaria Day.
A disease that we could eradicate
and that still sickens 250 million people each year,
killing 600,000 of them.

[Economic Freedom Fighters @EFFSouthAfrica]

The EFF stands with the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day 2025 under the theme “Malaria ends with us: reinvest, reimagine, reignite.”

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Let us do all we can to ensure that nothing like this happens again, that workers everywhere have decent pay and decent working conditions - ideally through treaty-based globally uniform minimum labor standards.

[UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion]

Today marks 12 years since the Rana Plaza collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh that took the lives of 1138 garment workers and injured thousands more. On this day, we remember those who died, those who were injured, and all who continue to live with the impact of one of the worst industrial disasters in modern history.

Alongside Accord signatories, we’re committed to safe, healthy working conditions at our sourcing facilities to prevent tragedies like Rana Plaza. We encourage more brands to sign the Accord agreements and put worker safety at the centre of their garment supply chains.

Learn more: https://t.co/N19DQX5TaP

#WorkplaceSafety #RanaPlaza

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Noch in diesem Jahr
zum Schutz von Planet und Gerechtigkeit:
Launch des Ecological Impact Fund
zur schnellen Verbreitung grüner Technologien
im globalen Süden.
https://t.co/CTcoKDcNF9

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Posted by the leader of Germany's Bundesverband für Wirtschaftsförderung und Außenwirtschaft (Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade).

[BWA Deutschland @BWA_Vorstand]

On the Inequality of Compassion - Statement of our Chairman Michael Schumann after his return from Antalya Diplomacy Forum:

”Let it be said at the outset - every loss of human life that occurs under the shadow of war, whether amid the thunder of artillery or the quieter horror of so-called “precision strikes“, is an event of relentless tragedy, a rupture in the fabric of humanity that no rhetorical balm can mend. The grief of the bereaved, like the guilt borne by those who, whether by command or complicit silence, have helped bring it about, runs so deep that it weighs heavily on the souls of all involved - often across generations.

And yet, how strangely varied are the responses these tragedies evoke in our collective consciousness! When rockets fall on Sumy, when children perish and families are obliterated, a chorus of outrage rises swiftly across the capitals of Europe - amplified by headlines, commentary, and statesmanlike pronouncements. But when similar horrors occur in Gaza - with a regularity that numbs the conscience and perpetrated by leaders of nations we call friends or partners - those same voices fall silent, or at best, retreat into the hushed murmur of diplomatic platitudes, as though the unspeakable might be rendered tolerable through polite evasion.

I have just returned from a conference in Türkiye, attended by numerous representatives of Arab nations - cultivated, clear-eyed individuals whose questions were born not of resentment, but of a sincere longing for moral coherence. They asked, not without bitterness, yet with just cause: Where is Europe’s outrage in the face of the suffering in their part of the world?

What reveals itself here - and it is a phenomenon of deeply troubling significance - is a distortion of perception, both in the media and society at large: a quiet, creeping hierarchy of human suffering, which leads us to distinguish between victims of the first and those of the second order. This, I fear, will not go without consequence. For once justice is made relative, it tends to recede - and the accusation against us, who have relativized it, will one day return with doubled force, like all that has been suppressed, and come and haunt us at a high cost.“

#ADF2025 #MEET4DIPLOMACY #Humanity #Justice #Suffering #Europe #Russia #Ukraine #Israel #Gaza

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The Amartya Sen Essay Competition is back!

Analyze a specific IFF component, its harms, and propose solutions.

Prizes of $5,000 & $3,000! Deadline: August 31st, 2025.

Details: https://t.co/08ys9NwOeF

#AmartyaSenPrize #IFFs #SDGs #EssayContest

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Calling all changemakers in #India

AGAPE is offering grants to pilot projects that show promise for scaling up and improving the lives of countless people.

Want to be part of the solution? Apply for the AGAPE Grant at https://t.co/E4nzYhDgwg

#AGAPE #Grant #SocialInnovation

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Affording a glimpse of global economic justice in dark times.
https://t.co/dyaB5WsyDa

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🚨 Last Call!

The #MandelaEssayPrize Competition closes TODAY

Share your vision for Africa's role in global governance & win part of the $5,000 prize pool.

Details: https://t.co/xG3tSSXVlz

#AfricanLeadership #GlobalGovernance

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75 million children will miss out on their routine vaccinations if the Trump Administration cancels US support for GAVI.
https://t.co/gxSF80cyUg

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🚨 Only a few days left to enter the #MandelaEssayPrize Competition!

Share your vision for Africa’s role in global governance & win part of the $5,000 prize pool.

⏳ Deadline: March 31, 2025
Details: https://t.co/xG3tSSXVlz

#AfricanLeadership #GlobalGovernance