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As South Africa approaches its 2030 development commitments, the continued exclusion of the Black majority from equitable access to land exposes a structural failure to redress the legacy of apartheid. ESCR-Net member, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), is challenging this inertia. Researchers Thuto Gabaphethe and Lulama Madyaka argue that the government’s inaction is not a delay, but a breach of binding constitutional and human rights obligations. Through a proposed amicus curiae intervention, CALS calls for transformative, redistributive land reform—underscoring that without it, justice, dignity, and equality cannot be realized.

For many countries in Asia, the Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights offers a rare opportunity to rebalance power in an international system that has long favored corporate interests.

How will the crippling debt burdens shape the conversations during the next Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank (WB)? Scheduled from April 15th to 21st, 2024, in Washington DC, these meetings will gather, as usual, governments, multilateral, bilateral and private lenders, and other institutions to deliberate on the challenges facing the global financial architecture and hash out potential solutions. This gathering also presents an occasion for the global movement advocating for debt cancellation to keep raising our demands for debt justice, especially for Global South countries.