Sameer Dossani

Sameer writes on issues of trade justice, environmental justice and women’s rights.

International Advocacy Coordinator: Reshaping Global Power
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Sameer Dossani has been working on issues of debt, development, human rights and the international financial institutions for over 10 years, including as Executive Director of 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice. Sameer is ActionAid’s expert on the ‘BRICS’, including Brazil, Russia, India and China.  He has been working on international economic justice issues for over 10 years, including leading the international network on accountability of the Asian Development Bank and the U.S. Network for Economic Justice. 

Latest blogs

4 signs Neoliberalism is (almost) dead

Though Margaret Thatcher is no longer among the living, her ideology lives on. That ideology – known today as neoliberalism, or “free market fundamentalism” in a phrase coined by George Soros – is...
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Sameer Dossani

What next for the BRICS?

This week leaders from the five BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have been meeting in Durban to discuss what is next for this group of new global powers.Compared with...
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Turning frustration into influence at the G20

Over the last week I've been blogging about civil society strategies on the G20 and some of the key issues that the G20 is taking up.In this post I try to draw some conclusions about the way the G20...
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Sameer Dossani

How the G20 can help end poverty

I’m blogging on how civil society might strategically engage with the G20. Here are two areas in which the G20 could take a significant step forward towards ending poverty and ensuring economic...
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How should we engage with the G20?

Since the financial crisis of 2007-08, the G20 has emerged as the world’s major economic decision-making body, to a large extent replacing the G8 which only represents countries in Europe, North...
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Sameer Dossani

Revisiting the Millennium Development Goals

In the year 2000, the world agreed on a set of goals to halve global poverty. Known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), these were a series of global targets including targets on hunger,...
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Sameer Dossani

Myanmar – Stark Choices Ahead for a New Democracy

As Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi makes a historic visit to the United States after decades spent under house arrest, residents of Myanmar and well wishers abroad will be focused on the political...
Farming in Myanmar
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Sameer Dossani

Future unwanted, but hope lives on

At Rio’s Earth Summit, another chance to take action to address hunger and climate change passes us by. Friday marked the end of the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Given the low expectations...
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Sameer Dossani

The great G20 bioflop (but at least progress was made on helping the banks. Again)

World leaders agreed today to support European efforts to integrate European banking sectors in a bid to support governments affected by the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Heads of state had earlier...
Biofuels = Hunger!
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Sameer Dossani

Rio+20 - The Corporate Empires Strike Back?

Representatives of world governments are gathering this week in Rio de Janeiro for the final round of negotiations prior to next week’s Earth Summit. The gathering, commemorating twenty years since...
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Sameer Dossani
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