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Campaigners call for a Global Tax Body to fix the broken system

Press conference Monday April 18: 11.00 am New York time/ 16:00 UK time/ 17:00 Brussels time* Campaigners call for a Global Tax Body to fix the broken system Sunday 17 April...

A Regional Commission should not set International PPP Standards

CSO FfD GROUP’S LETTER TO CHALLENGE THE CURRENT ATTEMPTS BY UN ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (UNECE) TO DEFINE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (PPPs) March...

Dakar declaration 2016 - Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition

Dakar declaration of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition 2016 The members and friends of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRtFN) -...

World Bank must push for greater transparency in PPP projects, urge CSOs

by Maria Romero, Eurodad* | Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are not transparent enough, and face criticism from civil society organisations (CSOs) and others for being too...

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former SID President - Turning Point in the United Nations

by Roberto Savio | ROME, Feb. 17 – It is no coincidence that Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who died on Feb. 16, was the only Secretary-General in the history of the United Nations to...

One year on from Lang’ata: Why public schools in Kenya are still at risk

One year ago, Kenya was rocked by the teargassing and violence used to stop the reclamation of the Lang’ata Road Primary School. Using exclusive primary research, the Kenya...

Civil society expresses shock at draft agriculture text (MC10)

Published in SUNS #8159 dated 18 December 2015 Nairobi, 17 Dec (Ranja Sengupta) - Civil society representatives present at the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) have expressed...

Why corruption continues to prevail? SID Kenya Dialogue Project updates

Why corruption continues to prevail and what we can do about it SID Policy working paper SID's policy working paper number two breaks new ground by seeking to examine and make...

SID and EASSI efforts towards a gender equality bill in East Africa

Recognizing the fact that attitudes and approaches that have served to marginalize women's issues and undermine the agenda of gender equity and equality are long established and...

Controversial G8 agriculture initiative accused of ‘land grabs’ debated in parliamentary hearing in Brussels

A European Parliament hearing [has taken place on December 1st, 2015] to scrutinise the controversial aid initiative, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. The New...

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