Humanity Pact Alliance
The people most affected by inequality, discrimination and climate disruption deserve a voice in the decisions that shape their lives.
We bring communities, research and decision-makers together to turn shared priorities into fairer policies and accountable action.
How we are organised
Global challenges are connected. Our work links the people affected by them with the research, public dialogue and commitments needed to respond. The Alliance coordinates these roles and provides their shared direction.Rooted in African and Afro-descendant perspectives, the Alliance connects communities and institutions across borders.
Global governance platform
Sets direction, coordinates programmes and oversees accountability.
Meet the Alliance
Brings researchers, practitioners and communities together to develop policy proposals. Its work connects lived experience with evidence on justice, technology, well-being and the environment.
Explore the Think Tank
Creates a meeting place for communities, cultural leaders, researchers and decision-makers. Dialogue feeds into new collaborations and the shared priorities carried forward between gatherings.
Discover Summit 2027
Provides the common framework for the work: six connected pillars that help translate dignity and justice into priorities for policy, institutions and collective action.
Read the PactA foundation you can explore
The Alliance builds on the Summit’s convening history and the Pact’s collaborative development. These records show what has been produced; future pilots will test how the framework works in practice.
Explore the gatherings, community conversations and public contributions that shaped the journey from the 2019 Summit to Rio in 2024.
Explore the documented journeyFour policy summaries from the G20 South Africa 2025 cycle connect measurement, hope, digital sovereignty and justice-centred finance. Available full texts are clearly identified.
Read the research and source documentsCo-creation involving contributors across 45 countries informs six connected priorities. Explore the framework, its current edition and the developing approach to measurement.
Understand the PactThe Pact / Six priorities
The six pillars connect rights, technology, culture, agency, economic opportunity and the conditions for a good life. They provide a shared lens for research and collaboration, rather than treating each challenge in isolation.
Protect rights, confront discrimination and make institutions answerable for harm. This includes whose voices shape decisions and how institutions respond when rights are denied.
Guide AI, science and emerging technology with human agency and future generations in mind. Ask who sets the rules, whose knowledge is recognised and who benefits from technological change.
Protect cultural heritage and give diverse communities the power to shape their own narratives. Memory, creativity and diverse knowledge help communities define how they are represented.
Expand people’s ability to influence decisions and build a better future. Hope becomes practical when people have credible pathways, resources and a voice in their future.
Advance decent work, fair access to resources and investment that repairs inequality. Focus on who controls resources, who gains access to opportunity and how prosperity is distributed.
Improve access to health, care, education, housing and a healthy environment. Examine social and ecological conditions together, including the inequalities hidden by averages.
Across every pillar
The Humanity Index asks who benefits from progress—and whose experience remains invisible. Its developing framework connects People, Well-being and Environment with Hope and Agency, helping users examine evidence gaps and the choices behind public outcomes.
Public demo · Illustrative data · Methodology in development.
Rights, inclusion, voice, representation, access and agency.
Health, care, security, learning, belonging and opportunity.
Climate resilience, biodiversity, liveability and ecological conditions.
Whether people can imagine, influence and participate in a better future.
From commitment to action
What happens after a principle becomes a promise? Follow a fictional housing example from community priorities to evidence, an identified commitment owner and a review of progress. The demonstration explains how the Pact and Index can work together.
Follow the example journeyA public interactive demonstration. All organisations and figures in the example are fictional.
Who is affected, and who is missing?
See definitions, gaps and whose experience is visible.
Name the owner, baseline, target and next action.
Distinguish a claim from a checked result.
Humanity Protect · Working prototype
People must be able to speak and organise safely. Humanity Protect explores practical guidance for civil society preparing a response to digital risks, reviewing material before sharing and documenting an incident.
This unaudited prototype requires authorised access. Use fictional information when exploring it.
Explore the approach and its limitations04 / Humanity Talks · Road to 2027
Humanity Talks connects lived experience with research through four public conversations. Each is designed to produce an action note and questions for the Think Tank, building towards the 2027 Summit. Dates and speakers will be announced as confirmed.
AI, power and the right to decide.
Explore the themeUniversities, democracy and the public good.
Explore the themeHousing, tourism and the right to belong.
Explore the themeTurning human potential into real possibilities.
Explore the themeExact dates, speakers and registration links will be published here with each event announcement. Registration is not yet open.
05 / Policy contributions
Developed for the G20 South Africa 2025 cycle, these contributions examine how progress is measured, knowledge is governed and justice is financed. Explore the arguments and available original documents; contributions do not imply official adoption.
A connected framework for seeing who benefits from progress, where systems fail, and what public choices can change.
Read the abstractAn approach to measuring whether people can imagine, influence and participate in the futures that affect them.
Read the abstractA case for digital rules that protect communities, diverse knowledge systems and democratic power.
Read the abstractFinancing instruments designed to reward prevention, repair and measurable improvements in human conditions.
Read the abstract
Humanity Summit 2027
The Alliance’s next global gathering.
Communities, researchers and decision-makers come together to turn the Pact’s priorities into shared commitments.
Planning for November 2027.
Exact dates, venue and programme will be announced. Register your interest to begin a conversation about participation or partnership.
Humanity Summit · Rio de Janeiro · 2024
The conversations continue outdoors: culture, community and moments of connection from our Rio gatherings. These are the people and places behind the work.
Voices from past Humanity Summits
A selection of past participants across public leadership, literature, heritage and racial justice. Their contributions reflect the range of perspectives the Summit brings into conversation. Explore the full archive for more voices and source profiles.
Brazilian political leader and advocate for racial and gender equality
Original Summit profileBrazilian author and poet
View profileFormer Minister of Justice, Portugal
View profileGhanaian statesman and author
View profileMaritime heritage and ocean conservation
Original Summit profilePhilosopher and founder of Geledés
View profileSelected past speakers, listed alphabetically by first name. The November 2027 programme will be announced separately.
Media coverage
Reporting and interviews offer an external record of the Summit and the Pact’s public journey. Browse coverage by outlet, date and language, with links to the original sources.
Folha de S.Paulo
Myriam Taylor discusses race, gender and the Humanity Pact’s ambition to bring excluded communities into decisions around the G20.
Read articleMundo Negro
Reporting on the Humanity Summit’s discussions of racial equity, cultural change and inclusive responses to global challenges.
Read articleRTP África · Rumos
Paula Cardoso speaks with Myriam Taylor about the Summit in the final Rumos programme of 2023.
Watch on RTP06 / Our story continues
Rooted in African and Afro-descendant perspectives, the work has grown through dialogue across borders. The Alliance provides an institutional home for the next stage, connecting the Summit’s history to ongoing research and cooperation.
The first Lisbon gathering created a space for people from different worlds to meet around dignity, justice and collective possibility.
Contributors across 45 countries helped transform dialogue into a shared blueprint for action.
The Humanity Pact entered the G20 Social ecosystem and a wider global conversation about justice and human progress.
The Think Tank developed papers for the G20 South Africa cycle on the Humanity Index, hope, digital sovereignty and justice-centred finance.
An independent institutional home was established in the United States to carry the work forward with a global purpose.
The next Humanity Summit will bring the Alliance’s connected work into a new global gathering.
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