Below we list all ASAP news updates. If you want, you can also choose to see only the specific news updates concerning our upcoming events or our Impact Interviews.
Bridging Our Divides: International Perspectives on Overcoming Social Disintegration – 19 Feb @ King’s College London
Join us at King’s College London for an exciting panel discussion with former Prime Ministers from Club de Madrid and speakers coordinated by ASAP and the New Economics Foundation We live in an era of division. Many countries around the world are suffering stark inequalities between rich and poor, young and old, metropolitan and rural, […]
2017 ASAP Chapter Network Event
Preceding ASAP’s 2017 conference on 26 October, 2017, ASAP held an intensive workshop for its chapter network, with the goal of carrying forward our new chapter-centric strategic plan and building greater capacity to affect poverty around the world. Representatives from Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Romania, the United Kingdom, USA and West Africa participated in the event. […]
2017 Amartya Sen Prize Awarded to Mattia Anesa
The fourth annual Amartya Sen Prize was awarded on 27 October, 2017 by Academics Stand Against Poverty and Global Financial Integrity for the best original essay on the moral assessment of tax dodging. This year’s recipient is Mattia Anesa, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. The award was presented during the first […]
2017 Global Justice Conference at Yale: 27 – 29 October 2017
From 27 – 29 October, 2017, Academics Stand Against Poverty co-organized a four day conference covering topics related to global justice in partnership with Yale University and Global Financial Integrity. The title of this year’s conference was Onslaughts on the Poor: Corruption, Emissions, Violence. The conference focused on three themes: Illicit Financial Flows (27 October) […]
Global Climate Change Week 2017 is almost here!
There’s still time to organise activities for Global Climate Change Week 2017 (Oct 9-15). Here are a few suggestions, with links to some examples universities organised for GCCWeek in 2015 and 2016. Panel discussions on one or another aspect of climate change (like this one at North Western University (South Africa), this one at the University of Zanjan (Iran), and this one at […]
Tendayi Bloom on “Statelessness and the Global Compact for Migration”
ASAP member Tendayi Bloom has published a new blog post for the Refugee Law Initiative blog at the School of Advanced Study University of London. The post addresses the issue of statelessness and its relevance to the Global Compact on Migration: Statelessness need not have anything to do with crossing borders, but it is essential […]
New Book on Global Inequality by ASAP’s Jason Hickel
ASAP’s Membership Director Jason Hickel has written a new book titled The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. We have been told that development is working: that the global South is catching up to […]
ASAP UK Poverty Audit Mentioned on Channel 4
ASAP was recently cited on Channel 4 in a segment titled “Poverty ‘neglected’ in party manifestos“. The segment echos the conclusion of ASAP UK’s audit of the major parties’ manifestos in the 2017 UK General Election: that political parties are failing to address growing levels of poverty across the country. Presenter Jackie Long then visits […]
ASAP UK Publishes 2017 Election Manifesto Audit
An audit of the major UK political parties’ manifestos by a group of leading academics and ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty UK) has revealed a failure to grasp the key issues behind growing levels of poverty in the UK and the lack of a realistic path for a sustainable and prosperous future. Using a scoring […]
ASAP Ireland’s Nita Mishra to Speak at Two Events in Dublin
Nita Mishra, PhD scholar at University College Cork and Convenor of ASAP Ireland, will speak at two events in Dublin this month. The Poverty of Lives: Women and Abuse across India and Ireland at Kimmage Development Studies Centre, 18 May 2017 Lucy Kurien, a Catholic nun from Kerala in India, will deliver the keynote address, […]
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