Our Struggles for a Better World are All Threatened by the Inequality Crisis
Today civil society leaders came together to issue this statement to to step up the fight on inequality. The world faces an inequality crisis that is spiralling out of control. Across the world we are...
View Article5 Priorities for Civil Society in 2016
As the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos kicks off, all sorts of people will be making all sorts of predictions about the future. So I thought I would have a go as well. Here are five big...
View ArticleCitizen voice in post-2015 goals: is anyone listening?
Civil society has worked hard to get diverse perspectives included in the draft goals. But now, we must focus attention on holding governments to account for the commitments they make...
View ArticleBig Job, No Rules?
Imagine you're applying for a job. It's quite a big, important job. In fact, if you get it, you'll be the world's top civil servant. You'll report to 193 member states, oversee more than 40,000 staff...
View ArticleUN secretary-general says no plans to reduce sustainable development goals
In his report, Ban Ki-moon backs the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the UN working group, despite the difficulty member states may have in communicating them...
View ArticleAddis Ababa outcome: milestone or millstone for the world's poor?
As a deal was struck on funding the poverty battle at the development finance summit in Addis Ababa, the UN hailed a historic moment while others branded the outcome tragic. We look at what was agreed...
View ArticleBig NGOs prepare to move south, but will it make a difference?
With Amnesty International and Oxfam looking to join ActionAid in moving more of their operations to Africa, will these steps be enough to transform the international aid system?...
View ArticleBan Ki-moon hails SDGs agreed by 193 nations as 'leaving no one behind'
UN member states finally assent to plan for sustainable development goals that wins praise for pledge on poverty despite scepticism over implementation...
View ArticleWhat FIFA Can Teach NGOs -- And Vice Versa
There's one aspect of all the controversy surrounding FIFA that's keeping me awake at night. It's the fact that FIFA is an NGO. I know that sounds a little sad but I do work for the world's largest...
View ArticleFACT SHEET: U.S. Support for Civil Society (President of the United States)
(Source: President of the United States) In September 2013, President Obama launched Stand with Civil Society, a global call to action to support, defend, and sustain the operations of civil society...
View ArticleTen ways to build a global civil society movement
How can we protect and strengthen civil society across the world? Our expert panel had these suggestions...
View ArticleGlobal goals: a chance to hold power accountable and to disrupt
If we use them right, the SDGs will be fantastic tools to empower and enable...
View ArticleMarching for a Climate of Solidarity
Over 785,000 people around the world took to the streets this weekend as part of the biggest Global Climate March in history. In over 2300 events across 175 countries people called on leaders to take...
View ArticleWhy Global Civil Society Needs to Stand Together
"Civic space? Oh yes, very important -- but actually we're just about to run a big campaign on food/water..." This is the response I used to get from the CEOs of many large international NGOs when I...
View ArticleFive reasons donors give for not funding local NGOs directly
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View ArticleDo #summits solve problems?
The shoe-shine boys and phone card hawkers that usually throng the entrance to the UN complex in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, were cleared away, replaced by armed police who kept watch as politicians from...
View ArticleRicher nations reject call for tough tax provisions at foreign aid conference
Developing countries and aid groups were united on need for fairer rules on multinational tax, but lacked support from Australia and other wealthy nations...
View ArticleUnleashing the power of Africa’s civil society
A Liberian women’s peace movement led by 31-year-old Leymah Gbowee did something extraordinary in July 2003 to force Liberian warlords to sign a peace agreement that ended 10 years of a bloody civil...
View ArticleGlobal move to hurt civil society worldwide
International civil society bodies are growing increasingly concerned about a rising trend to undermine the ability of citizens to organise and demonstrate dissent across the globe, the head of a...
View ArticleGoa Declaration at 8th BRICS Summit (NDB - New Development Bank)
(Source: NDB - New Development Bank) Goa Declaration at 8th BRICS Summit 16 OCTOBER 2016 We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the...
View Article8TH BRICS Summit: Goa Declaration (Department of International Relations and...
(Source: Department of International Relations and Co-operation - Republic of South Africa) 8TH BRICS Summit: Goa Declaration We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian...
View ArticleGoa Declaration at 8th BRICS Summit (Prime Minister’s Office of India)
(Source: Prime Minister’s Office of India) • We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of...
View ArticleFull text of Goa declaration adopted at 8th BRICS Summit
--> DNA Web Team | Sun, 16 Oct 2016-06:27pm , Mumbai , dna webdesk Eighth BRICS Summit held under the theme "Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions” came to an end with the signing...
View ArticleTo finance development you must tackle tax
Last month Oxfam's International Executive Director Winnie Byanyima was in Washington for the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, and then in New York for one of the drafting sessions ahead of the...
View ArticleVIII Cúpula do BRICS - Goa, Índia, 15 e 16 de outubro de 2016 – Declaração e...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil) 16 de Outubro de 2016 - 12:43 Goa Declaration We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation,...
View ArticleWho Speaks for the Refugee Children of Calais?
On a recent visit to the Calais ‘jungle’ with the Calais Sessions (1) musicians I found that I was with the kind of people who had worked alongside me when I co-founded War Child over 20 years ago and...
View Article10 ways the EU can play a leading role in development
Our expert panel suggest how the EU can lead by example and reduce global poverty and inequality...
View ArticleMinister Flanagan briefs Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade on...
(Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland) 8/7/15 Minister Flanagan briefs Foreign Affairs Committee on Tunisia, the Middle East Peace Process and migration Minister for Foreign...
View Article27/04/2016 “Civil society is called upon to capitalize on the aspirations set...
(Source: UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) Remarks by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri at the Gender Working Group event on 27 April...
View ArticleMSF pulls out of World Humanitarian Summit
The UN expects 6,000 people at a historic humanitarian conference in Istanbul later this month. But one prominent participant has dropped out. "We no longer have any hope that the WHS will address the...
View ArticleFinancing the sustainable development goals – podcast transcript
Who will pay for the ambitious plans set out in the sustainable development goals? In the run-up to the finance talks in Addis Ababa, we discuss the key issues...
View ArticleThe Consultative Meeting with MPs, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Civil...
(Source: African Union) Kigali, Rwanda: 16 November 2016 - In line with the priority areas for the First Ten-Year Implementation Plan for Agenda 2063 (2014 - 2023) regarding good governance including...
View ArticleFrench president Francois Hollande addresses Davos 2015 -- live
Earlier, Billionaire investor George Soros tells WEF that Europe needs a huge infrastructure programme...
View ArticleCorporations are doing more about sustainability – but we must remember they...
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View ArticleSecuring a just and sustainable world means challenging the power of the one...
(Source: Oxfam International) The widening gap and imbalance of power between the richest and the rest is warping the rules and policies that affect all of us in society, creating a vicious circle of...
View ArticleFresh Thinking, Better Coordination, Concrete Action Critical to Delivering...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Road Ahead 'Undoubtedly Complex', Keynote Speaker Cautions, as Deputy Secretary-General Applauds Strong Foundation Built on 2015 Accords Effective development cooperation...
View ArticleThe style of doing business may change fundamentally this year
A key part of responsive and responsible leadership involves making business, government and civil society collaborate at global and national level The world is changing in unpredictable ways....
View ArticleThe pope's encyclical on climate change – as it happened
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View ArticleForeign policy address to the Storting 2017
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Børge Brende's foreign policy address to the Storting 7 March 2017. Check against delivery Mr President, I described the overall tone of last year's address as sombre. I...
View ArticleBriefing on Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Russia
'Civic Space in Eurasia: Ideas for Change' Russia 2017 About this paper According to the CIVICUS 2016 State of the Civil Society Report, over 100 countries have faced serious restrictions and threats...
View Article‘I was terribly wrong’ - writers look back at the Arab spring five years on
In January 2011, days after the first uprising in Tunisia and the protests in Tahrir Square, the Guardian invited leading writers from across the Arab world to reflect on the revolutionary fervour...
View ArticleSecurity Council Condemns Human Trafficking in Strongest Terms, Unanimously...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Secretary-General Tells of Abducted Yazidi Girls Sold in Open Slave Markets The Security Council condemned in the strongest terms today all instances of human trafficking...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleIt's okay to be rich, but don't stretch it at the cost of poor
Oxfam's latest estimate that just eight super-rich people - down from 62 last year and 388 just six years ago - own more wealth than the poorest half of the world population is a clarion call to change...
View ArticleResponsibility of International Financial Institutions to ensure Meaningful...
In recent years, international financial institutions, including the World Bank Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other regional development and investment banks, have...
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