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New Publications
Jens Martens: Multistakeholder Partnerships – Future Models of Multilateralism.
January 2007
Dialogue on Globalization Occasional Paper No. 29,
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin.
In times of growing dissatisfaction with the groaning pace of the global negotiation process „Multistakeholder initiatives” and „policy networks” between private and public actors are experiencing a boom. The study gives an overview of how relationships between the UN and private actors have changed over time, traces the scale and scope of „partnerships”, and discusses the limits, risks and side effects of this paradigm shift in international politics.
English (pdf – 0.6 MB)
Upcoming Events
International Workshop: Social and Human Rights Budgeting
9 December 2008
Berlin, Permanent Representation of Bremen
In recent years, civil society organisations, particularly in the South, have launched initiatives to examine national budgets with regard to human rights and gender issues. Under the keywords "Human Rights Budgeting" or "Gender Responsive Budgeting", they are analyzing whether fiscal policies promote or violate economic, social and cultural rights as well as women's and children's rights.
With our international workshop, we would like to gain an overview of the broad range of budget monitoring and human rights budgeting initiatives. We want to share experiences with partner organizations from Asia, Africa and Latin America in analyzing and influencing national budgets. What are success stories and what are obstacles and difficulties in their monitoring and advocacy work?
We will do this in cooperation with the international network Social Watch. In its 2008 Report national Social Watch coalitions highlight how their governments promote or violate human rights through their economic and fiscal policies. The report will be presented at the workshop.
Finally, we would like to discuss what we in Europe can learn from the various civil society initiatives in the South and whether the time has come to launch an initiative in Germany to monitor public budgets from a human rights perspective. Can fiscal policy thus become an effective human rights policy?
Conference language is English.
Invitation,Programme and Registration (pdf – 139 KB)
Latest Press Releases
25th September 2006
German CorA Network for Corporate Accountability founded in Berlin
German human rights organisations, trade unions, environment and development organisations as well as other civil society organisations centred on socio-political issues founded a new Network on Corporate Accountability (CorA Network). More than 20 groups and organizations signed the founding statement in Berlin on 25th September 2006. They urge transnational corporations, their subsidiaries and their suppliers to observe fundamental human rights and to adhere to internationally agreed social and environmental standards. In order to achieve this target, they intend to enhance the public debate on the economic and political activities of transnational corporations, and to advocate binding instruments to promote corporate accountability.
Founding Statement of the CorA Network (English – pdf)
