Cross-cutting

At this event, we will discuss whether the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be able to avoid the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), on which the UN development agenda was based so far. This question was also the subject of a study we recently published.

Speakers:

Dagmar Enkelmann, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Germany
Gathoni Blessol, The Rules und Bunge La Wamama Mashinani, Kenya
Barbara Adams, Global Policy Forum, United States
Yiping Cai, Development Alternatives with Women for a New [...]

In den Verhandlungen über die globale Entwicklungsagenda für die Zeit nach dem Jahr 2015 beginnt nun die heiße Phase. Im September 2015 wollen die Vereinten Nationen die Post-2015-Agenda beschließen. Einen zentralen Baustein bilden die zukünftigen Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die SDGs. Sie sollen universelle Gültigkeit besitzen und sind damit auch für Deutschland relevant. Das Global Policy Forum und terre des hommes veröffentlichen vor diesem Hintergrund im Februar den Report „Gut leben global“. In ihm diskutieren wir, wie SDGs für Deutschland [...]

You are cordially invited to a side-event by the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN, CIDSE and Social Watch on Thursday, January 29, 2015 in the UN Conference Building, New York. Dealing with responsibilities in a financing sustainable development context, this event seeks to generate discussion on conceptual challenges such as an evenhanded approach to the three pillars of sustainable development, adapting a framework like the Financing for Development process to the universal agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals [...]

Eurodad, together with partners from all over Europe (including GPF) has released a new report “Hidden Profits”. Coming right in time to complement the Luxembourg Leaks investigations, the report compares 15 EU countries’ performance on combating tax dodging and ensuring financial transparency and finds they are still failing to address urgent problems, which cost both developed and developing countries billions of euros in lost tax revenue every year. Each country is also directly compared with its fellow EU member states [...]

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 [...]