Potential Global Policies

Below is a list of potential global policies which could make the world a better, safer place to live for everyone. As you can see, solutions to many of humanity’s greatest problems already exist. What doesn’t exist, yet, is the global democratic and cooperative framework to implement them.

At the bottom of the page is a list of international agreements and systems negotiated behind closed doors and which subvert democratic sovereignty.

Gender Equity – in Global People Power’s process (Gender Equity)

• UN Women. Facts and Figures: Leadership and Political Participation 
• The National Democratic Institute. Gender Women and Democracy
• TedX. Why gender equality is good for everyone. 

a world without war (conflict)

• World Peace Through Law: Rethinking an Old Theory
• Make War Illegal

Ban All Weapons of Mass Destruction (conflict)

• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Ban Profiteering from War (conflict)

• Campaign Against Arms Trade
• Arms to Renewables

Global refugee plan (human rights)

• Amnesty International’s 8 point plan
• World leaders have ‘shirked, not shared’ responsibility on refugee crisis

Global Monetary Reform (economics – to fund all other policy areas)

• International Movement For Money Reform
• NEF. A New Green Deal

Universal Basic Income (Social Security)

• basicincome.org

Global Renewable Energy Grid, GREG (Climate Change, Energy)

• Global Energy Network Institute
• Renewable Energy World
• Desertec

Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (human rights, environment, bio-diversity)

• Universal Declaration of Rights Of Mother Earth

also known as

• Ecocide Law

Contraction and Convergence (climate change)

• UNFCCC. Contraction And Convergence

climate fair shares (climate change)

• Climate Fair Shares
• Climate Equity Reference Calculator

Doughnut Economics (Economics, Sustainability, Justice)

• Doughnut Economics

Circular Economy (environment, climate change, business, economics,)

• Circular Economy

Ban All Tax Havens/Country By Country Tax Reporting (economics)

• Tax Justice Network
• Unitary Taxation of Transnational Corporations

tax on financial speculation (economics)

• Tobin Tax (Robin Hood Tax)

Corporate Law Reform (economics, business)

• Fighting Corporate Abuse: Beyond Predatory Capitalism

The Alternative Trade Mandate (trade)

• Make Key Corporations Stake Holder Governed Not-For-Profits.
• Trade: Time for a new vision

or

• International Treaty on the Control of Transnational Corporations

Land Rights Reform (justice, equality)

• Georgism. Land Value Tax.
• People Centred Land Governance
• International Land Coalition

Communications Law (Media, propaganda, Freedom of Expression, Net-Neutrality)

• Freedom House
• Internet Democracy

The Whole World Online (internet access, education, net-neutrality, democracy)

• Web We Want
• World Wide Web Foundation

International Artificial Intelligence Agency (Technology)

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) And Global Geopolitics

Universal Declaration of Human Rights  (Human Rights)

• The United Nations – Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal/Global Health Care Fund (Health)

• Global Issues. Universal Health Care
• World Health Organization

Proportional Representation (Democracy)

• Make Votes Matter
• Global Alliance For Real Democracy

Global policies, agreements and systems which subvert democracy. 

• Investor State Dispute Settlement Courts. (Link 2)
• General Agreement on Trade in Services, GATS
• North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA. (Possibility of renegotiation)

• The proposed US/UK Trade Deal
• Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) (Approved February 2017.)
• The proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) (Still being negotiated.)
• The proposed  Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP (Cancelled)
• The proposed  Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement. (TTIP) (Probably cancelled.)