The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has urged global leaders to act ‘now’ to tackle worsening global inequality.
Dr Tveit participated in the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland in January. Speaking on January 20, the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated President of the USA, Dr Tveit said: “If global leadership is to be responsive and responsible, it must put inequality at the top of its agenda, it must tackle inequality in tangible ways, and it must do so now.
“The problem of inequality is related to deep structures of difference and division related to class, race, gender and more. What we do know for sure is that it is not true that all children are born with the same possibilities, and particularly not in a country like the USA, where this has been a slogan so often.