Topic: Global governance
Un discorso sulle credenze, ideologie e sugli “ismi”
Article / 29th April 2018Come possiamo creare la consapevolezza che la condivisione è la soluzione alla crisi planetaria, e la nostra speranza per recuperare un mondo diviso? Il nocciolo di questa domanda è il problema degli “ismi”, che sono l’intellettualizzazione del nostro auto-compiacimento che così giustifica e normalizza la sua esistenza.
Public-private partnerships don’t work. It’s time for the World Bank to take action.
Blog / 25th April 2018This week, executive directors of the World Bank were handed a letter signed by more than 80 civil society organizations and trade unions from around the world, urging a change in the bank’s approach to public-private partnerships.
'Woefully off track': global goals leave behind over half the world's children
News / 8th March 2018More than half a billion of the world’s poorest children are invisible to the international organisations that could help them most.
Implementing the 2030 agenda requires acknowledging extraterritorial obligations
Report / 8th March 2018One year into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the most pressing question is whether the Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be implemented in ways that are universal and integrated, and that protect and even extend human rights.
Africa 'very, very far away' from meeting global target to end child malnutrition
News / 2nd March 2018No African country is expected to reach the UN target of ending childhood malnutrition by 2030, according to a new study.
53 economists write to IMF Directors on approach to social protection
News / 2nd February 2018The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was formed in 1945 to ensure the stability of the international monetary system. The letter below to IMF Directors has been signed by more than 50 prestigious economists and development specialists, concerned on IMF’s social protection and labour reforms.
Unire il popolo del mondo
Article / 24th December 2017È arrivata l’ora in cui dobbiamo manifestare in milioni non contro questo o quello, ma piuttosto per chi siamo
The WTO matters more than ever – here’s what you need to know about its summit
Article / 11th December 2017‘Latin America returns to the global economy’. That’s the message that Argentina’s right-wing President Macri wants world leaders to take away from the World Trade Organisation’s 11th Ministerial Summit in Buenos Aires.
‘Harmony with Nature’ dialogues at the United Nations
Report / 22nd November 2017Since 2009, a series of expert dialogues at the General Assembly of the United Nations has sought to define a new worldview based on a non-anthropocentric relationship with Nature. The resolutions contain different perspectives regarding the construction of a new paradigm in which the fundamental basis for right and wrong action concerning the environment is grounded not solely in human concerns.
IMF should abandon "failed policies", says human rights reporteur
Report / 27th October 2017The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should change its priorities and finally let go of the outdated conditionalities of privatization, deregulation of markets, and "austerity" in social services, which in the past have engendered human rights violations, and instead make loans subject to a new set of conditions.