Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)

Global Call to Action Against Poverty. A call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

Financing Social Protection for All is a Matter of Global Justice🌍

Around 3.8 billion people have no social protection, while 3.4 billion live in countries spending more on debt servicing than on health or education.

Universal social protection is a human right — but unfair debt burdens and broken tax systems are blocking progress.

Debt relief. Tax justice. A strong UN tax convention.
The resources exist — political will must follow.

🎥 Watch the full video here: https://t.co/RDZA5pynww

#SocialProtectionForAll #GlobalJustice #TaxJustice #SocialJustice #CancelTheDebt
@AmitabhBehar @UNDESA

[Pathfinders @SDG16Plus]

💫 Meet the newest member of the #GlobalAllianceAgainstInequality!

We are thrilled to welcome @whiteband as the newest member of the Global Alliance Against Inequality.

⚒️ One of the world's largest civil society movements, GCAP unites trade unions, women's and youth movements, and faith and community groups across 66 national coalitions to challenge the structures that drive poverty and to advance human rights, gender, social, and climate justice.

Its grassroots reach brings powerful momentum to our shared goal of keeping inequality reduction high on the global agenda.

Welcome, GCAP! Together we can build a more fair and equal world. 🌏

🔗 Learn about the Global Alliance Against Inequality: https://t.co/mGqDzIHVxv

[CIVICUS Monitor @CIVICUSMonitor]

VAR checks everything…if only scrutiny worked the same off the pitch.

Today's fixtures at the #WorldCup2026:

#Czechia v #SouthAfrica
#Switzerland v #BiH🇧🇦
#Canada v #Qatar
#Mexico v #SouthKorea

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

2026 FIFA World Cup:⚽ Senegal is on the world stage today, but back home it's facing a far harder match. More than 40% of their government spending goes to unjust debt.

Money that should reach hospitals and schools goes to lenders, under rules written in their favour. No country can build a future when nearly half its budget is spoken for from the start.

It's time to give unjust debt a red card.

Read our Economic Justice Statement here: https://t.co/08D5uLEDYF

#TackleUnfairDebt  #EconomicJustice #FifaWorldCup
@GuillemBalague @GaryLineker @guardian @BBCWorld

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

🌍 As the G7 Summit begins today, Civil Society 7 (C7) is calling for global justice.

The G7 is a club of wealthy nations defending their own interests. It has no democratic legitimacy to shape the future of the world. We demand a just, inclusive, and accountable system of global governance.

📢 C7 calls on G7 to:

🔹 Strengthen universal social protection
🔹 Reform the global financial architecture and tackle debt
🔹 Increase climate finance and ensure a just transition
🔹 Guarantee universal access to quality healthcare
🔹 Protect civic space and uphold human rights
🔹 Build fair, inclusive economies that put people and the planet first

Read all the demands here: https://t.co/QBTlqGMggo

GCAP colleagues Neyla Rakhimova from Russia, Zia Ur Rehman from Pakistan, Riccardo Moro from Italy, Oluseyi Babatunde Oyebisie from Nigeria and Ingo Ritz from the secretariat participated in the C7 Summit in Paris on 5 June 2026.

#G7 #C7 #GlobalJustice #SocialProtection #DebtJustice #ClimateJustice #HumanRights

[Oxfam International @Oxfam]

💰With $1 trillion, Musk could give $100 to everyone on Earth, and he would still be one of the ten richest billionaires in the world, with more than $184 billion left over.🤯

“A trillion dollars in the hands of one man is incompatible not only with an affordable economy, but also with a healthy democracy. Economic inequality begets political inequality, and ordinary people bear the brunt while billionaires continue to write the rules for their own benefit,” said said Nabil Ahmed, senior director of economic justice at Oxfam America. #taxthesuperrich

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

🌍 GCAP Director Ingo Ritz is among 360 global leaders, economists and civil society voices calling for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth.

The initiative argues that ending poverty requires rethinking economic systems and prioritising social protection, human rights, decent work, public services, debt justice and climate justice over GDP growth.

📖 Read the opinion piece in The Guardian: https://t.co/C63zn9LNll

✍️ Explore the full list of signatories: https://t.co/2GtLZW4iPc

#BeyondGrowth #EndPoverty #EconomicJustice #ClimateJustice

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

⚽🏆 #WorldCup: Billions will watch the world's nations go head to head on a level pitch. But off the pitch, the game is rigged. 

Many of the countries we’re cheering for this summer are trapped in a debt crisis, with unfair debt draining the money they need for school and hospitals.

Read the Economic Justice Statement here: https://t.co/08D5uLEDYF

#TackleUnfairDebt #EconomicJustice #FifaWorldCup

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

⚽🏆 #WorldCup: Billions will watch the world's nations go head to head on a level pitch. But off the pitch, the game is rigged. 

Many of the countries we’re cheering for this summer are trapped in a debt crisis, with unfair debt draining the money they need for school and hospitals.

Read the Economic Justice Statement here: https://t.co/08D5uLEDYF

#TackleUnfairDebt #EconomicJustice #FifaWorldCup

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

⚽🏆 #WorldCup: Billions will watch the world's nations go head to head on a level pitch. But off the pitch, the game is rigged. 

Many of the countries we’re cheering for this summer are trapped in a debt crisis, with unfair debt draining the money they need for schools and hospitals.

Read the Economic Justice Statement here: https://t.co/08D5uLEDYF

#TackleUnfairDebt #EconomicJustice #FifaWorldCup

[PACJA @PACJA1]

🎙️ We just walked out of our first press conference at hashtag#SB64 in Bonn — and we left nothing on the table.

Speaking on behalf of African civil society organisations at the #UNFCCC negotiations, #PACJA delivered a message that cannot be ignored: the era of delay, dilution and deferral is over.

Here is what we told the world today:
Africa is responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions — yet its people are losing homes, farms, and lives to droughts, floods and cyclones they did not cause. That is not a climate problem. That is a justice problem.

We raised the alarm on something deeply troubling — Loss & Damage and National Adaptation Plans have been quietly dropped from the SB64 agenda. We stand firmly with the Africa Group of Negotiators: negotiations without these are not negotiations at all. They are an abdication of justice.

Our three demands, stated clearly today in Bonn:
🔹 Climate finance off the spreadsheet and into communities — public, grant-based, predictable, directed to women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and frontline populations.
🔹 A just transition built for Africa, not imposed on it — 600 million Africans still lack electricity. Decarbonisation without development is not justice.
🔹 Adaptation treated as the survival issue it is — not a footnote, not an aspiration. A funded, implemented, measurable commitment.

SB64 must not become another procedural stop on the road to #COP31. The credibility of the entire UNFCCC process is on the line.

Africa is not asking for charity. Africa is demanding justice.

Read the full press statement: https://t.co/L40485DtxR

#SB64 #UNFCCC #ClimateJustice #PACJA1 #ClimateFinance #JustTransition #LossAndDamage #Bonn2026

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

🌱GCAP at SBSTA 64, Bonn, Germany

At the 64th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 64) in Bonn, Germany, GCAP joined civil society organisations from across the Global South to advocate for climate justice, equitable climate finance for smallholder farmers, pastoralists and Indigenous Peoples, secure land rights and food sovereignty.

#ClimateJustice #SBSTA64 #ClimateFinance #IndigenousPeoples #BonnClimateConference

[Latindadd in English @Latindadd_Eng]

🌎 The cost of capital, or the interest rate at which a country services its sovereign debt, is significantly determined by Credit Rating Agencies. When a country faces a crisis, credit rating agencies can make the difference between opening pathways to recovery or further restricting access to financing.

📉 The cases of Argentina, Ecuador, Belize and Colombia show how downgrades can turn political, external or fiscal shocks into greater pressure on debt, reserves and public spending.

⚠️ Rating agencies’ decisions are not neutral: numerous studies show how their methodology is biased. At the same time, this methodology shapes the policy space of countries in the Global South.

👉Read our report: https://t.co/vReiv43Je9

[ICRICT @icrict]

"Tax justice cannot be separated from broader reforms of the global economy" — ICRICT Co-Chair @Jayati1609 at #WIC2026 in Paris 🇫🇷

Building a more equitable economic system requires sovereign debt restructuring, stronger financial safety & fair taxation, she said.

#TaxJustice

[GCAP América Latina & El Caribe @GCAP_LAC]

🌊 Los océanos no están muriendo solos.
Los estamos ahogando con plástico, contaminación e indiferencia.Cada minuto que perdemos, miles de especies pagan el precio.Este #DíaMundialDeLosOcéanos recordemos: sin océanos sanos, no hay futuro posible.🌎#WorldOceansDay #ProtectTheOcean

[GCAP América Latina & El Caribe @GCAP_LAC]

Mañana es el Día del Medio Ambiente y no hay nada que celebrar.
Celebrar mientras bosques arden, ríos mueren y comunidades son desplazadas es hipocresía.
La crisis climática tiene responsables: codicia, inacción política y un sistema que pone ganancias sobre la vida.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US.

It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration.

Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on https://t.co/arZRWrEZEv

[Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) @whiteband]

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐃𝐆𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬

In the context of the post-Seville FfD4 process, CSOs, UNDP Philippines, senate and congress representatives and development agencies came together on 17 April 2026 for the Forum on SDGs & Development Financing in the Philippines.

Ms. Rebecca Malay of PRRM/GCAP Philippines, highlighted the critical role of civil society organisations in advancing the SDGs and shaping development financing processes.

The Forum focused on refining the proposed CSO SDG Financing Roadmap and Action Plan using the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) approach. It also helped to strengthen collective action for SDG-aligned financing, policy engagement and inclusive development in the Philippines.

#SDGs #DevelopmentFinancing #FfD4 #FinancingForDevelopment

[MZR @MZRAWAZ]

The regulations are further tightened in Pakistan to control the operations of INGOs @PDA4SDGs @Forus_Int @whiteband @CIVICUSalliance @TAPNetwork2030 @ada_2030 @adn_asia @UN_HRC @c4unwn @cooperation_ca https://t.co/bJ7KuWW0Sh