Yellow vests, rising violence – what's happening in France?
2020年2月27日 · While the 2019/2020 protests against pension reform – led by unions – look more organized and less explosive, the feelings are the same. Nothing, in fact, has changed except for the visuals. The yellow vests have disappeared from the streets, but the same people are meeting, planning future actions, and learning how to use the encrypted ...
Vegans in France are using extreme tactics to stop people eating …
2018年7月18日 · But butchers in France say militant vegans are on the rise, using violence and intimidation as their tools and animal rights as their justification. In a letter to the French government, Jean-François Guihard, president of the nation’s professional organization of butchers, CFBCT, accuses the activists of vandalism, smashing windows and ...
How do we tackle inequality? | World Economic Forum
2019年12月12日 · Inequality looms larger on policymakers’ agenda today than it has in a long time. With the political and social backlash against the established economic order fueling the rise of populist movements and street protests from Chile to France, politicians of all stripes have made the issue an urgent priority.
IMF: How social unrest can inspire changes in policy
2021年7月16日 · By comparison, the protests of July 2019 in Hong Kong SAR and the yellow vest protests of 2018 in France—which meet the threshold of social unrest events as defined above—resulted in an increase of 4 standard deviations in the RSUI causing a GDP reduction of about 1 percentage point.
The great reset must place social justice at its centre
2020年7月29日 · Over the past two months, the death of George Floyd has spurred mass protests in the United States, France, Great Britain and Australia among many other countries. Countries with a colonial past that have failed to ensure full racial integration and to actively combat systemic racism will suffer from sustained social unrest and national ...
How 2020 protests changed insurance forever | World Economic …
2021年2月22日 · In 2020, the George Floyd protests became the first civil disorder catastrophe event to exceed $1 billion in losses to the insurance industry. In fact, it has exceeded $2 billion so far and could still go higher. This “catastrophe event” was also the …
The global fight against period poverty, inequality and stigma
2022年6月9日 · Period poverty affects 1.7 million women in France, a survey by the French Institute for Public Opinion has found. Kenya’s tax cut to sanitary imports In Kenya, unaffordable sanitary products, stigmatization and poor sanitation are some of the problems linked to menstruation, according to Borgen, a US global poverty campaign group.
Climate policy success depends on transition risk mitigation
2021年3月2日 · However, if not addressed in time, they could still slow or derail crucial policies, as happened with the gilets jaunes protests in France – anger at hikes in fuel tax turned into violent clashes against President Macron's government, who insisted the measure was designed to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. The dynamic and interconnected ...
George Floyd: these are the injustices that led to the protests in …
2020年6月5日 · While these protests are directed at improving the way law enforcement interacts with communities of colour there is more to the underlying pain, frustration and fury. COVID-19 has hit the black community hard, with black Americans being infected at higher rates and dying in greater numbers than white Americans.
How systemic racism is hampering economic and social progress
2020年9月16日 · George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Three Black Americans killed in acts that reminded the world that systemic racism is still very real in the United States. The early summer protests that followed, though sparked by those deaths, were manifestations of deeper anger and despair at the racism that has plagued the country since its ...