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November 27th – Today, countries at the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt the mandate for the new global tax rules, the Terms of Reference for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention).
The article explores the catastrophic impact of ongoing wars (in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine...), highlighting their role in exacerbating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through human and environmental destruction and the collapse of health infrastructure.
This briefer, developed collectively by the Climate Finance Workstream of the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism, addresses ten of the most pervasive myths surrounding climate finance. It is important to recognize that climate finance is not immune to the allure of what may seem like quick fixes or false solutions.
The Society for International Development, in partnership of the Heinrich Boll Foundation and Strathmore Energy Research Centre, invites the public to register and the attend the upcoming hybrid Public Energy Futures Forum, under the theme, 'Nuclear Power Development in Kenya – A Low Carbon Solution or a High-Risk Gamble?' On Tuesday 3, December 2024, 1400 to 1700hrs (EAT Nairobi) at Daystar University, Nairobi Campus.
On World Food Day, over 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations from across the globe have come together to release the Peoples’ Manifesto on the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition. The Manifesto calls for urgent political action to end the use of starvation as a weapon of war, address food insecurity, combat inequality, and transform global food systems.
On September 24, the Civil Society Financing for Development (FfD) Mechanism issued a communique condemning the failure of UN member states to advance international financial architecture (IFA) reforms during the UN Summit of the Future.
Join the conversations and insights from the panel of speakers at the continental agency level as we review negotiations of the Pact for the Future and map how those align with the aspirations of the AU Agenda 2063; and contribute to our mapping of what Africa’s future might look like post-Summit of the Future.
The Pan-African Conference on Inequalities in the Context of Structural Transformation took place from 28-30 April 2014, in Accra, Ghana.