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Published on Fri, 2025-08-08 00:00
Dr. Kenan Aslanli participated in the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), that took place in Awaza, Turkmenistan, from 5 to 8, August, 2025. Dr. Kenan Aslanli’s spoke at plenary session 2: "Digital Economy, Innovation and Sustainable Development" at the Civil Society Forum. |
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, 2024-09-16 09:28
On the eve of the Summit of the Future to be held on September 22-23 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Global Policy Watch has launched today the Report “Future of Global Governance: Perspectives from Global South” on views from developing countries on the key issue of the Summit, the reform of global governance, its rules and institutions. |
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. |
Published on Thu, 2024-05-30 00:00
The 2024 Global South Study Week on Sustainable Human Development was coorganized by the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Third World Network (TWN), Global Policy Forum and Social Watch and took place in Beirut, Lebanon in May 2024. |
Published on Mon, 2024-05-13 00:00
As part of the 2024 Global South Study Week on Sustainable Human Development, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Third World Network (TWN), The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, Global Policy Forum and Social Watch invite you to a special session: “On the Way to the Summit of the Future: The Challenges of the Multilateral System.” This hybrid event will explore critical global issues and the efficacy of multilateralism in addressing them. |
Published on Mon, 2024-03-04 00:00
Roberto Bissio, Coordinator of Social Watch, spoke at the "Regional Meeting for Civil Society on Sustainable Development - On the Way to the Summit of the Future". The recording is here . The Arab NGO Network for Development in collaboration with the members of the Regional Sustainable Development Platform (ATUC, CAWTAR, HIC-HRLN, ARFPD, ANDE, CAWTAR and TI) organized the "Regional Meeting for Civil Society on Sustainable Development - On the Way to the Summit of the Future" on March 4, 2024 in Beirut. |
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