Staff Reporter
South Africa will present a draft resolution to the United Nations General Assembly later this year to establish an International Panel on Inequality, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.
Speaking at the In Defence of Democracy Initiative in Barcelona, Ramaphosa said inequality was a central threat at a time when progressive leaders have gathered to push back against far-right gains, democratic strain and growing attacks on multilateral institutions.
The summit, co-hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, comes amid rising concern over polarisation, disinformation and pressure on the liberal international order.
“South Africa, during its G20 Presidency, commissioned the first-ever global inequality report from a committee of independent experts led by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz,” Ramaphosa said.
“Having received the endorsement of the African Union, South Africa will present a draft resolution on the establishment of the International Panel on
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