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The General Assembly Hall in Advance of General Debate

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02/19/2026

Global tax rules at a turning point?

Four insights from the fourth round of UN tax convention negotiations

By Sarah Ganter

News - Archive

02/10/2026

How the UN funding crisis will worsen in 2026

Only 51 UN member states have paid on time, 142 have not

01/28/2026

Why the EU–Mercosur agreement is bad news for global sustainability

12/17/2025

The year ahead: What’s next for financing for development and international financial architecture reform in 2026?

12/08/2025

Solidarity, equality and sustainability?

A reality check on the G20 after South Africa’s Presidency

12/01/2025

Tax capacity building for the Global North?

Three takeaways from the third round of negotiations on the UN tax convention in Nairobi

10/28/2025

UNCTAD 16 conference in Geneva: The right conference at the wrong time

10/21/2025

Development Assistance Committee launches review as the sector is at a crossroads

09/15/2025

The welfare state is under pressure: What to expect from the World Social Summit in Doha

08/19/2025

Negotiations on UN Tax Convention pick up speed at the UN

Taxing digital services and dispute settlements high on the agenda

08/18/2025

Global Finance Rewired: Our new podcast series on reforming the international finance architecture

Reimagining the rules for a fairer future

07/03/2025

Final day 4 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Reforming global institutions and credit rating systems

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

07/02/2025

DAY 3 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Unresolved trade issues and first steps toward debt reform

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

07/02/2025

DAY 2 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Aid cuts, private finance and uneven commitments

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

07/01/2025

DAY 1 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Overcoming the SDG financing gap and proposals on international tax cooperation

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

06/23/2025

Compromiso de Sevilla

A digest of key elements of the UN's new global financing framework

06/17/2025

Compromiso de Sevilla

Last-minute deletions on the final stretch to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development

05/20/2025

World Health Assembly 2025

Ratification of the pandemic treaty postponed again

05/08/2025

Hurdles on the way to Sevilla

Unresolved issues on the FfD4 agenda after PrepCom 4

04/28/2025

2025 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank: Keep calm and carry on?

03/12/2025

FfD4 first draft outcome document released

The flame keeps burning but there is still a long way to go on the Road to Sevilla

03/05/2025

A rocky start for the South African G20 Presidency

Finance Ministers and Public Development Banks convene in Cape Town

02/24/2025

UN Preparatory Committee expands the vision for financing for development

What was new at PrepCom3?

01/22/2025

FfD4 Conference in Sevilla: Highs and lows of the zero draft outcome document

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

12/12/2024

UN Preparatory Committee charts course for 4th Financing for Development Conference

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

11/25/2024

UN launches FfD4 Elements Paper: A Top 10 list of policy reforms

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

11/20/2024

G20 summit in Rio promotes wealth taxes, MDB and UN reform

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

10/28/2024

2024 Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank: Continuing disconnect between IFI and UN agendas

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

09/30/2024

International financial architecture reform at the UN Summit of the Future: Small steps on a long journey

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

09/25/2024

Change of dates for 10th session of UN-Treaty negotiations announced - civil society protests!

-- Update 10/30/2024: Protest remains unsuccessful. Change of date confirmed, the 10th round of negotiations will take place from 16 to 20 December 2024 --

08/20/2024

Breakthrough in New York: UN Committee paves way for new UN Tax Convention

08/01/2024

End of the Addis Ababa era: UN meeting takes stock of nearly a decade in development finance

07/01/2024

“Enhancing the support capacities to advance the process of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations & other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), est. by Human Rights Council resolution 26/9"

06/05/2024

Bridgetown Initiative 3.0 released: What´s the news?

04/30/2024

International financial architecture reform at the 2024 Spring Meetings of IMF and World Bank: High ambitions meet piecemeal results

04/29/2024

2024 UN Financing for Development Forum outlines path to FfD4 Conference

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #4

02/29/2024

Reform of the international financial architecture and climate finance: What will the year 2024 bring?

02/05/2024

The UN Pact for the Future

What does it offer for the reform of the international financial architecture?

10/17/2023

Piecemeal reform plan for the World Bank, stalemate at the IMF

Round up of World Bank and IMF Meetings in Marrakesh

10/12/2023

Ahead of the 2023 World Health Summit

Lessons from the Corona pandemic for the future health architecture

08/16/2023

Creating effective institutions for international tax cooperation - New recommendations from the UN Secretary-General

08/07/2023

Entering the second half of the 2030 Agenda with a “Big Push”? Unpacking the United Nations’ SDG Stimulus Package

07/10/2023

The quest for more and better development finance: A week in Paris

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #3

06/13/2023

Reforming the international financial architecture: UN Secretary-General suggests comprehensive reform package

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #2

04/13/2023

United Nations begins negotiations on international tax cooperation

03/01/2023

Last Exit Doha - The Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries is a chance not to be missed

02/23/2023

The Bridgetown Initiative to reform the international financial architecture

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #1

11/15/2022

Not if, but when - Commentary on the 8th round of negotiations on the UN treaty on business and human rights

By Karolin Seitz

10/24/2022

Statement by Treaty Alliance Germany at the opening of the 8th negotiation round on the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights

07/20/2022

Financing for Development at the 2022 UN HLPF on Sustainable Development

07/18/2022

Feminist foreign policy?

07/09/2022

The G7 Summit in Elmau 2022. Intensified geopolitics overshadow the development agenda

05/20/2022

Of fiscal space and the great finance divide

Analysis and recommendations from the UN Financing for Sustainable Development Report

05/12/2022

2022 EU Investing in Sustainable Development Report

A review by Bodo Ellmers

05/10/2022

UN Financing for Development Forum 2022

02/16/2022

Civil Society Open Letter to the WTO Director General

More than 200 CSOs sign open letter on TRIPS WAIVER

01/28/2022

Global Health & Private Sector Partnerships at the UN: The COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility

10/29/2021

World Health Summit - More Rhetoric than Representation

09/29/2021

Open Letter to G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and the IMF: Civil Society Organizations Call for Principles for Fair Channeling of Special Drawing Rights

08/06/2021

Debriefing of 2021 HLPF side event: “Voluntary National Reports on the 2030 Agenda: What can we learn for a post-pandemic world?”

06/14/2021

Special Drawing Rights: Saving the global economy and bolstering recovery in pandemic times

04/06/2021

Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021: The yawning gap between development finance needs and political ambition

03/08/2021

Corporate accountability: What’s gender got to do with it?

02/25/2021

Barbara Adams (GPF): "The public sector is essential for gender equality & women's rights."

Barbara Adams (GPF) interviewed by IWRAW Asia Pacific

02/15/2021

INVITATION: Virtual Panel Discussion on the FACTI Report

02/12/2021

Women’s Major Group Position Paper on the HLPF Review

02/02/2021

"Where the rubber meets the road"

Survey on CSOs perceptions about UN reform is being launched today

01/18/2021

Open letter to the Biden administration on the need for a pandemic pivot

11/24/2020

The Pandemic Pivot - A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, The Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South

Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of COVID-19

11/24/2020

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2020

Pushing the reset button will not change the game

09/25/2020

Recording: Launching Event of the 2020 Spotlight Report

09/24/2020

World in Progress: Five Years of SDGs - little progress so far

"Deutsche Welle"-Interview with Jens Martens (GPF)

09/24/2020

Five years of SDGs - Little progress so far

09/22/2020

No Business as usual - Patents kill: For the suspension patent protection on all essential medicines

For the production of medical knowledge as a public good

09/11/2020

US Leveraging its money in global and regional fora

07/22/2020

False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

06/04/2020

UN75 Political Declaration: Perspectives on the lynchpin role of UN financing

04/23/2020

Corona: Curse or Opportunity?

03/30/2020

WHO-business joint COVID-19 letter to G-20 raises concerns

03/27/2020

Don’t say nobody warned us

12/20/2019

ODA: Can the players also be scorekeepers?

12/12/2019

Characteristics of the UN General Assembly Second Committee

09/18/2019

When one session closes, another one opens: Looking ahead to the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly

07/23/2019

VNRs, National “Spotlight” Reports and the Future of the HLPF

07/17/2019

Reshaping Governance for Sustainability: 2019 “Spotlight” Report Launched at the UN HLPF

07/03/2019

BS/SDG Index: Can progress on sustainable development be reduced to a single number?

06/19/2019

SDG indicators: Half-filling an empty glass?

The UN Secretary-General’s progress report on the SDGs shows that many will be left behind by 2030, but omits any mention to the responsibilities of the rich.

03/25/2019

Decoupling is the glue that holds “sustainable” and “development” together, material footprint is its indicator

11/08/2018

Misleading road signs in the World Bank’s “SDG Atlas”

01/14/2018

“Market discourse has captured the development agenda to a point that may be incompatible with UN mandates”

01/14/2018

Trading away the SDGs?

01/04/2018

Member States call for commitments to overcome crisis in multilateralism

11/10/2017

Preventing Future Conflicts: The Case of Climate Change

05/27/2017

Which Finances for Whose Development?

04/22/2017

CSW highlights importance of public sector and tax justice

04/20/2017

Harmonization of ECOSOC and the General Assembly for the 2030 Agenda

03/01/2017

The 48th Session of the UN Statistical Commission

A Quantitative UN Commission faces a Qualitative dialogue on the SDG global indicator framework

01/25/2017

In the 2017 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Civil Society plays key role in voluntary national reviews and coherence

01/12/2017

Turning the Tide on Sustainable Development - The High-Level UN Conference to Support the Implementation of SDG 14

12/20/2016

Observer Status for the International Chamber of Commerce

World's largest business association gets direct voice in UN decision making

12/14/2016

Measuring sustainable development — status update on the global indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals

09/27/2016

The Diplomatic (and Economic) Struggle over Microbes

09/21/2016

Spotlighting the 2030 Agenda — one-year after

08/02/2016

2030 Agenda demands UN reform

04/26/2016

Obstacles to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

04/13/2016

Mind the Gap – from CSW to FfD

04/05/2016

Accountability and transparency of multi-stakeholder partnerships at the UN

03/16/2016

UN Statistical Commission takes up Global Indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

03/11/2016

SDG Indicators: Cross Threading and Classifying

03/11/2016

Obstacles to Women’s Rights and to the SDGs

02/26/2016

What can we expect from the 47th Session of the UN Statistical Commission?

02/18/2016

The UN development system: important, yet inconspicuous to Civil Society

02/15/2016

Technology and SDGs

02/01/2016

Where next for the United Nations Development System?