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Sustainable Development Needs Fundamental Governance Changes - Spotlight Report

New York, 8 July 2019: “The world is off-track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Most governments have failed to turn the transformational vision of the 2030...

Globalization 0.0: The real paradigm shift is for us to zero how we've done business until now

By Lamìs Shejni If you misdiagnose the problem, it's highly unlikely that you will find the appropriate solution. Though a well-known maxim in public policy circles, it would seem...

Rights for people, rules for corporations - Stop ISDS

In today’s international system, corporations benefit from far reaching super-rights and have access to special tribunals to enforce them. Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS...

Conflict of Interest: Corporations lead UN promotion of controversial PPPs

Representatives from companies with a history of mismanagement of public contracts and renowned tax-dodging practices will meet in Geneva this week to lobby for business-friendly...

Rural women speak out at UN food security plenary: ‘After a decade of celebrating International Rural Women’s Day we are still denied our rights’

For immediate release, Monday, 15 october 2018 | Women farmers, fishers, pastoralists, agriculture workers and indigenous smallholders have been feeding their communities for...

Global civil society and grassroots movements in Rome to influence world food policies

Civil Society Mechanism for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security MEDIA ADVISORY Rome, 8 October 2018 – The recently released United Nations report on the State of...

Report exposes how PPPs across the world drain the public purse, and fail to deliver in the public interest

Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank Experts call for World Bank Group to end aggressive promotion of PPPs for public service provision A new report exposing how public...

When Food Becomes Immaterial: Confronting the Digital Age

At a time where technology is infiltrating every area of our lives, this year’s Right to Food and Nutrition Watch takes a closer look at how this new era impacts food, our source...

Ten Years from the Crisis: Finance rules the world, let's change the rules

#TenYearsOn #ChangeFinance One decade ago, on 15th September 2008, the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, marking the start of the financial crisis. Banks crashed and...

Energy for Whom? Launch of the new SID report on energy futures in Eastern Africa

According to the International Energy Agency’s Africa Energy Outlook 2014 publication, “More than 200 million people in East Africa are without electricity, around 80% of its...

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