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Special Edition: Right to Development

The international financial architecture is in urgent need of reform. In the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, it is "outdated, dysfunctional and unjust". The main institutions were created 80 years ago in a transatlantic agreement, at a time when many of the world's nation-states of today were still colonies. Moreover, the institutions have failed in their mission to prevent and mitigate crises and to mobilize sufficient financing for internationally agreed development goals.

The reform of the international financial architecture [...]

Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) hat eine sogenannte Investment Round gestartet, um für die nächsten vier Jahre von ihren Mitgliedstaaten, internationalen Organisationen und privaten Geldgebern die dringend benötigten Mittel zur Finanzierung globaler Gesundheitsaufgaben zu mobilisieren. Die WHO schätzt die Finanzierungslücke für die Jahre 2025 – 2028 auf 7,1 Mrd. US-Dollar. Ob diese Lücke geschlossen werden kann, wird sich beim G20-Gipfel am 18.-19. November 2024 in Rio de Janeiro zeigen. Dort soll die Investment Round ihren Höhepunkt erreichen. Bislang wurden lediglich Finanzzusagen von [...]

This GPW Factsheet on the 79th UN General Assembly outlines the meeting schedule, links and throughlines for action on the deliberations of Committees 2 and 3. Key issues highlighted in this briefing include macroeconomics, sustainable development, debt, food security, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs), information and communications technology (ICT), and social justice and human rights issues. 

Am 22. September 2024 verabschiedeten die Mitgliedstaaten der Vereinten Nationen den Pakt für die Zukunft. Er ist das offizielle Ergebnisdokument des UN-Zukunftsgipfels, der zu Beginn der 79. Generalversammlung in New York stattfand. Der Gipfel sollte angesichts verschärfter geopolitischer Konfrontationen die multilaterale Kooperation auf Weltebene wiederbeleben und die Vereinten Nationen fit für die Zukunft machen.

Der Zukunftspakt ist kein großer Wurf. Dies war angesichts der weltpolitischen Großwetterlage auch nicht zu erwarten. Dass es nach monatelangen hitzigen Verhandlungen überhaupt ein offiziell einvernehmliches [...]

Special Edition: Summit of the Future

The Pact for the Future (PFTF), the proposed outcome of the Summit of the Future, addresses Security Council reform in Chapter 5 on global governance. The Pact’s annotated draft and process have had a placeholder for input from the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN).

The GPF team has been monitoring the IGN process and negotiations. This table (see pdf file below) includes the final version of the IGN contribution to Chapter 5, which was circulated by the IGN co-facilitators, Kuwait and Austria [...]

The “Unpacking the Pact for the Future” series analyses the changes in language made between Rev.1 and Rev.2 to assess the state of the Pact as it is now and what should be done in Rev. 3 to raise the ambition of the Pact, thus working to ensure that Member States capitalize on this once in a generation moment at the Summit of the Future. 

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.

Divergent views on the Ministerial Declaration for the High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development 2024

Topics covered in this issue: 

2024 HLPF, SOTF, UNSC, Human Rights,  78 PGA, LLDC3, Debt, UCM, Beyond GDP, Inequalities