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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 usal - 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?

03/27/2020

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

A review by Bodo Ellmers

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