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By Barbara Adams, Gretchen Luchsinger

2015 is a pivotal year. The post–2015 sustainable development agenda currently being drafted is premised on the reality that the present model of development is not working, given worsening inequalities and straining planetary boundaries. All countries and peoples—and the planet on which we depend–have the right to live with a better model, one that is inclusive and sustainable.
An increasingly urgent imperative for change informs the two–track negotiations unfolding at the United Nations from [...]

Dieser Bericht – der zweite in einer Reihe von drei Jahresberichten – bringt zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen (civil society organization, CSO) in 15 Ländern innerhalb der EU zusammen. Experten in jeder CSO haben die Verpflichtungen und Handlungen zur Bekämpfung der Steuerhinterziehung und Sicherstellung von Transparenz ihrer nationalen Regierungen untersucht.

In diesem Jahr wird jedes Land zum ersten Mal auch direkt mit den anderen EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Hinblick auf vier kritische Fragen verglichen: die Fairness ihrer Steuerabkommen mit Ländern des globalen Südens, ihre Bereitschaft [...]

In a new comment the the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives states that the SG’s report fails to address the core structural and macro-economic issues that shape the ability to implement and finance people-centered, ecologically sound policies and programs at all levels.

Alleine während der vergangenen zwölf Monate kam es zu vielfachem Eingreifen auswärtiger Mächte in Konflikte in formal souveränen Ländern: im Südsudan, in Zentralafrika, in Mali, in der Ukraine und anderswo. Diese sehr unterschiedlichen Eingriffe in sehr unterschiedliche Konfliktsituationen werden naturgemäß sehr unterschiedlich bewertet: als Unterstützung in einer Krisensituation, als Prävention in einem sich abzeichnenden Völkermord oder als aggressive Einmischung in die inneren Angelegenheiten eines Staates. Wann und wie aber internationales Eingreifen gerechtfertigt oder gar geboten erscheint, darüber findet spätestens seit [...]

Global Policy Forum, MISEREOR and Brot für die Welt launch a new working paper on the "Corporate influence through the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa". The working paper puts a spotlight on how business interests are promoted through the G8NA. To that end, the paper shows how the initiative bundles existing policy initiatives and aligns national policies to corporate interests. The paper concludes that the approach and objectives of the G8NA are highly problematic. The [...]

International development policy is at a crossroads. By September 2015, governments plan to adopt a Post-2015 Development Agenda – an agenda that is supposed to shape the fundamental priorities, goals and strategies for development policy beyond 2015. In parallel, governments have agreed to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals integrating all dimensions (social, economic and environmental) of sustainable development and being applicable to all countries in the world. Forming one coherent Post-2015 Agenda, including the SDGs, affects all policy [...]

A new GPF working paper, jointly published with Brot für die Welt and MISEREOR, gives an overview of the debate around how to create an international legally binding instrument to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights abuses. The scope reaches early efforts to formulate the UN Code of Conduct to the current initiative for a binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights. The paper particularly focuses on the responses by TNCs and their leading interest groups to the various [...]

Global Policy Forum and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office publish a joint report on the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P). "In whose name? A critical view on the Responsibility to Protect” by Lou Pingeot and Wolfgang Obenland provides an overview of the history and content of R2P, its positive contributions and its flaws. It concludes that R2P does not give a satisfying answer to the key question it is supposed to address: how best to prevent and, if [...]

Das Prinzip der gemeinsamen, aber unterschiedlichen Verantwortung (Common But Differentiated Responsibilities, CBDR) gilt als einer der Meilensteine des Erdgipfels von Rio 1992. Die Regierungen hatten damals ihren unterschiedlichen Beitrag zur Umweltzerstörung anerkannt – und damit auch ihre unterschiedliche Verantwortung, für die Wiederherstellung des Ökosystems und die Anpassung an Umweltschäden zu bezahlen. Heute ist dieses Prinzip zum Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Klima- und Post- 2015-Verhandlungen geworden. Der vorliegende Report beschreibt die aktuellen Kontroversen um das Rio-Prinzip, nimmt die wichtigsten Vorschläge zu [...]

Today Global Policy Forum and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office publish a new report on recent developments and practices of the security outsourcing of the UN. GPF's Lou Pingeot discusses the increasing use of private military and security companies (PMSCs), the shifting understanding of their role and activities, and how this influences the perception of the UN by other actors. The report discusses the UN’s attempt to increase transparency and accountability in their selection processes of PMSCs. Finally, Pingeot [...]