APWLD with other CSOs in Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (RCEM) submitted a written input for the PGA Stocktaking on Post-2015 Development Agenda: “We have repeatedly argued that the challenges the world currently faces require bravery, commitment to transform the very rules that our global economic order is based on. The obscene levels of inequality that allow 85 people to own more wealth than 3.5 billion people, half the Earth’s population and the growing urgency of climate change are both born from a global agreement to set rules that promote profit making over human rights. Although states have expressed similar concerns through this process we do not see a shared commitment to dismantle the rules and systems that enable such gross inequality and threaten our future. Neo-liberalism still haunts the goals and targets proposed.”
