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\”Technology & Justice\” An exciting yet insightful and informative conference, in collaboration with ASAP, Yale University, the Global Justice Program, and Quinnipiac University took place over a span of three days. Many of the panel sessions centered around themes associated with technology, justice, and the use of artificial intelligence were discussed. Our very own ASAP session hosted a number of ASAP members as speakers. We look forward to our next annual...

Jesuit Justice Ecology Network Africa (JENA) in collaboration with Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and Global Justice Program, Yale University organized a webinar themed, “Transforming Africa’s Food System towards Poverty Eradication”, drawing insights from a rich pool of experts across the globe. The webinar was held on December 7, 2022, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm East African Time. The webinar drew from the urgent need to reform the current food system to adhere to the present realities...

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Global Justice Program, Yale As the COVID-19 pandemic and global health exigencies show, many important vaccines, treatments, diagnostics, and other health technologies remain unaffordable or inaccessible to millions of people, many of whom suffer or die as a result. We invite activists, academics, policymakers, industry representatives, and health professionals to contribute to an edited open-access volume advancing a human-centered approach to health innovations. Contributors...

\”Technology & Justice\” An exciting yet insightful and informative conference, in collaboration with ASAP, Yale University, the Global Justice Program, and Quinnipiac University took place over a span of three days. Many of the panel sessions centered around themes associated with technology, justice, and the use of artificial intelligence were discussed. Our very own ASAP session hosted a number of ASAP members as speakers. We look forward to our next annual...

Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022 Aims: To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education. Final Target:...

This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future of cities.

April 12, 2022 | Online Virtual Event | The University of British Colombia9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST IT HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR DECADES THAT THE EARTH’S CLIMATE IS CHANGING, AND THE ROLE OF HUMAN INFLUENCE ON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM IS UNDISPUTED – VALÉRIE MASSON-DELMOTTE, IPCC WORKING GROUP I CO-CHAIR, 2021-08-09.\\ https://epp.ok.ubc.ca/about/freedomsandclimatechange/ There is no reasonable doubt that the collectivity of individual human decisions has substantially changed the global...

ASAP is proud to announce the launch of the first edition of the Academics Stand Against Poverty Journal. The journal includes work from many good people, especially in the Global South, who have interesting and constructive things to say on poverty. We hope you will like some of the essays in it and will help the journal find suitable topics and authors, especially from the global South, for future issues. ASAP JOURNAL 1Download The next edition of the Journal will include essays...

takes place 11-14 November on ZOOM https://yale.zoom.us/j/3713192937 It features a session with the winners of the Eighth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition. Apart from this, much of this year’s event is devoted to exploring incentives and rewards for creating and delivering innovations. Globalized in 1995 through the TRIPs Agreement, humanity’s dominant mechanism for encouraging innovations involves 20-year product patents, whose monopoly features enable innovators to reap...

ASAP is co-organizing a roundtable on Thursday 20th May on the Health Impact Fund: How the pharmaceutical sector can satisfy the needs of the global population: Fondo de Impacto en la salud. Cómo hacer que el sector farmacéutico satisfaga las necesidades de toda la población https://www.flacso.org.ar/mesa-redonda-fondo-de-impacto-en-la-salud/ The full Global Health: A field of political interests and tensions programme is included...

Promoting Resilience, Reducing Vulnerabilities, Strengthening Social Justice 27th – 29th April 2021 ASAP East and Southern Africa (ASAP-ESA) in Conjunction with the Office of the Vice-President in Zambia will be jointly hosting the inaugural Social Justice Conference. The Conference will gather national and international specialists, both academics and policy experts, in order to extend the academics studies concerning the battle against poverty, misery and vulnerabilities in...