A Year of Challenges and Breakdowns ... But Hope for a Better Future is in Sight (2019)
http://www.annd.org/data/file/files/Progress%20Report%202019%20EG%20Online.pdf Beirut, January 2020 The year 2019 saw major events unfolding at the international and regional levels, perhaps the most important of which was the eruption of protest movements across the world, from Latin America to Asia, Africa, and the Arab region, raising common demands under the same title: Social Justice. At a minimum, they expressed the failure of prevailing policies since the turn of the century, those of brutal neoliberalism, austerity, and the dominance of the current financial system, which allows an unfettered flow of capital, the existence of tax paradises, and the spread of tax evasion. The above policies led to the exacerbation of the social and economic crisis, increased the concentration of wealth in the hand of the %1, and led to the deterioration of the conditions of more than %60 of the population. An Oxfam report released at the end of 2019 goes further and says that %82 of the world...