Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2021

Press Release
 
 
Demanding justice beyond rhetoric

Time to overcome contradictions and hypocrisy in the COVID-19 crisis

 
 
Table of Contents
 

Download the full report here (pdf version), for single chapters see below.

 
Briefing “The WHO pandemic treaty: responding to needs or playing COVID-19 geopolitics?” (pdf format here)
By Nicoletta Dentico, Society for International Development (SID)
 
 
Preface (pdf format here)
 
 
1. Diverging recovery – deepening inequalities (pdf format here)
By Barbara Adams and Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum
 
Special contributions
 
1.1 The struggle for the TRIPS waiver (pdf format here)
By K.M. Gopakumar, Third World Network
 
1.2 COVAX: Risks and side effects of multi-stakeholder governance (pdf format here)
By Harris Gleckman, Associate, Transnational Institute (TNI)
 
1.3 The WHO pandemic treaty proposal: responding to needs or playing COVID geopolitics? (pdf format here)
By Nicoletta Dentico, Society for International Development (SID)
 
1.4 Challenging decades of privatization and de-funding of public services (pdf format here)
By Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI)
 
1.5 IMF Special Drawing Rights – a historic financial boost to counter the COVID-19 crisis? (pdf format here)
By Bodo Ellmers, Global Policy Forum
 
1.6 Large corporations cash in on COVID-19 recovery (pdf format here)
By Matti Kohonen, Financial Transparency Coalition
 
1.7 The UN Food Systems Summit – the wrong way to respond to the global food crisis (pdf format here)
By Magdalena Ackermann, SID / Charlotte Dreger, FIAN
 
1.8 What have we learned about gender equality during the pandemic? (pdf format here)
By Vanita Nayak Mukherjee and Shree Baphna, DAWN
 
1.9 Recovery in education: The imperative to support and invest in the education workforce (pdf format here)
By David Edwards, General Secretary, Education International
 
 
2. Exacerbated crises in many countries (pdf format here)
By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch
 
Special contributions
 
2.1 Citizens Monitoring COVID-19 Response Programmes: The Philippine experience (pdf format here)
By Social Watch Philippines
 
2.2 Lebanon’s multiple crises (pdf format here)
By Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)
 
2.3 Lessons from Colombia: To address the causes of social unrest, be serious about progressive tax reforms (pdf format here)
By Sergio Chaparro, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
 
2.4 Time for feminist transformative policies: Towards a national care system in Argentina (pdf format here)
By Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, DAWN
 
2.5 Vulnerabilities and policy priorities for South Africa's COVID-19 third wave (pdf format here)
By Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)
 
 
3. Time for transformative policies at all levels (pdf format here)
 
3.1 A rights-based economy: In critical times, a roadmap for action (pdf format here)
By Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
 
3.2 Now is the time to reclaim public services (pdf format here)
By Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI)
 
3.3 Steps to prevent a global debt and austerity pandemic (pdf format here)
By Isabel Ortiz, Global Social Justice, and Matthew Cummins, senior economist
 
 
 4 – NATIONAL REPORTS
National reports are being published weekly.
 
ARGENTINA (Español)
BAHRAIN
BANGLADESH
CANADA
CYPRUS
CZECH REPUBLIC
FRANCE
GERMANY
GUATEMALA (Español)
HUNGARY
MALTA
MEXICO (Español)
PALESTINE
PHILIPPINES
PUERTO RICO (Español)
SPAIN (Español)
SWITZERLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
 
 

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2021
Demanding justice beyond rhetoric
Time to overcome contradictions and hypocrisy in the COVID-19 crisis

Global Civil Society Report on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs

Published by:
Social Watch, Third World Network (TWN), Global Policy Forum (GPF), Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Society for International Development (SID), Public Services International (PSI), Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

ISBN 978-3-943126-53-2
Beirut / Bonn / Ferney-Voltaire / Montevideo / New York / Penang / Rome / Suva, September 2021

 
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