Labour rights violations in Qatar
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- Written by ITUC
- Category: Analysis
Qatar authorities have acknowledged problems with labour rights for the 1.2 million migrant workers there after the International Trade Union Confederation warned up to 4000 workers could die before a ball is kicked at the 2022 World Cup.
The state of Food Insecurity in the World
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- Written by UN
- Category: Documents
On the multiple dimensions of food security ... MDG has almost been met ...
But how many hundreds of millions of people remain hungry? How many remain under-nourished or mal-nourished?
Fit for who's purpose?
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- Written by Civil society's reflection group on global development
- Category: Analysis
The UN Secretary-General’s (SG) report “A life in dignity for all” (A/68/202) calls for a “new post-2015 era […] a new vision and a responsive framework […] a universal agenda that requires profound economic transformations and a new global partnership.” Unfortunately that new vision and the new partnerships proposed by the SG derails our ability to meet the challenges we meet today.
Misdirecting finance – who benefits?
The SG’s report fails to address the core structural and macro-economic issues that shape the means of implementation. Six multilateral banks and the International Monetary fund have offered to fill that gap. In a letter to the UN Secretary General sent last July the heads of these institutions volunteer to work on “the definition of goals and targets on poverty and equity, gender, governance, job creation, trade, and financing for development”.
Report on Climate Change
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- Written by IPCC
- Category: Documents
The official summary of the new IPCC report: international Panel on Climate Change setting out the challenges for the future of life on our planet
Outcome Document UN GA post 2015
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- Written by UN
- Category: Documents
Outcome document of Special event at UN General Assembly 25 September 2013 on post 2015 and MDGs
Ecuador's campaign: The dirty hand of Chevron
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- Written by Sally Burch
- Category: Analysis
Ecuador’s president has launched a call for people around the world to boycott Chevron products, in rejection of the company’s evasion of responsibility for oil contamination in the Amazon basin. In recent months, Chevron has targeted Ecuador with a barrage of defamatory publicity questioning the country’s legal system, in an attempt to elude the sentence under which it is ordered to pay out almost $19 billion to clean up the area and provide health care and clean drinking water for the affected population.
Asia-Pacific Aspirations
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- Written by ADB
- Category: Documents
New report from the Asian Development Bank on the perspectives for a post-2015 development agenda.
Investing in social protection and decent work
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- Written by Solidar
- Category: Documents
The report highlights the problems that the MENA region is facing today: mass unemployment throughout the whole region, especially among young people and women; structural problems of unskilled young people, as well as underemployment; rising poverty; rising informal employment; increasing child labour; lack of fundamental freedoms; and the heritage of (neoliberal) perspectives from former authoritarian regimes.
These persistent problems are putting the socio-economic future of the MENA region in jeopardy and can lead to rising poverty and inequalities, which in turn can endanger the already fragile democratic stability. The lack of employment prospects, furthermore, can induce a “brain-drain” phenomenon and provide a potential breeding ground for religious extremism.
Decent Work 2013
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- Written by ITUC
- Category: News
ITUC has launched a special website for the World Day for Decent Work, 7 october 2013: http://2013.wddw.org/
First ever real-terms drop in IDA agreed
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- Written by Bretton Woods Project
- Category: Analysis
More than two months after International Development Association (IDA) deputies met in Managua, Nicaragua in early July, the World Bank published the summary of the discussions and decisions made. This marks the half-way point for the negotiation of the 17th replenishment round of the IDA, the process by which donor countries decide on their financial contributions to the Bank's low-income country arm for the period 2014-17.
World Bank ties strategy to poverty-fighting goals
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- Written by Anna Yukhananov/Reuters
- Category: Analysis
The World Bank, faced with a tight budget and greater competition for development funds, aims to become more selective in its lending, focusing on fragile states, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and other areas where it can have the greatest impact, according to a draft strategy paper obtained by Reuters.
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