Published on Wed, 2025-08-06 19:22
Call for Applications: Apply Now for the 2025 Global South Study Week in Beirut, Lebanon Deadline: August 20, 2025 Are you a young civil society activist from the Global South working on development, macroeconomic issues, multilateralism, governance, gender, climate, digital justice? |
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Published on Tue, 2025-07-15 00:00
“You're on your own, kid …. Yeah, you can face this …. At the closing ceremony of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, last July 3 in Sevilla, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivered a sobering statement:
"…For decades, the mission of sustainable development has united countries. Yet today, development and its great enabler — international cooperation — are facing massive headwinds. |
Published on Wed, 2024-10-09 00:00
Bridging the gap between what is said and discussed at the UN headquarters and how that is translated into policy at the national and local levels remains a persistent challenge. Attention and querying at the national level on how concerns are being represented at the UN are integral to democratic global governance and accountability. |
Published on Mon, 2024-08-12 00:00
The second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) will take place in November 2025 in Qatar tasked with advancing social development and justice, and the implementation of and successor to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. This Summit together with the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) are central in the follow-up of the Summit of the Future (SOTF) in September 2024. Member State priorities and concerns on achieving social development and justice. |
Published on Tue, 2024-06-18 00:00
The Pact for the Future, the proposed outcome of the Summit of the Future, will address Security Council reform in Chapter 5, on global governance. The Pact’s draft and process have a placeholder for input from the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN), which is due by the end of June 2024. The linkage of on-going and decades-long Security Council reform with the September 2024 deadline for adopting the Pact for the Future has contributed to the intensity of engagement from all Member States and shaped alignments and alliances that criss-cross a number of Member State groupings and alliances within and outside the United Nations. |
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