Economic Injustice
In today's global economy, many people are experiencing hunger, hardship, and the impact of a growing inequality of wealth, power, and access to basic resources. Around the world, 1.2 billion people live in "extreme" poverty.
The system that supports this impoverishment has been coined as global apartheid – “an international system of minority rule whose attributes include: differential access to basic human rights; wealth and power structured by race and place; and structural racism, embedded in global economic processes, political institutions and cultural assumptions.”
African descendants, regardless of where they live in the world, have been the most negatively affected by global apartheid. From the international debt burden and unfair trade to lack of access to land and basic healthcare, African descendants from Birmingham to Bogotá, from Harlem to Harare, are facing many of the same economic challenges.
TransAfrica Forum is dedicated to addressing and exposing the realities of global inequality and the negative impacts of globalization. Our work in support of fair trade, international debt cancellation, and human centered development supports the work of civil society across the African World.
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