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Debate necessary on UN’s partnership facility
By Roberto Bissio* | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis MONTEVIDEO (IDN) - According to the official schedule, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in New York, negotiations on a "new development agenda" to replace the Millennium Development Goals should begin in September 2014, in order to give countries time to study the issue. This will culminate in a Development Summit in 2015 attended by heads of state and government. However, the creation of a "partnership facility", which…
International civil organizations claim for a lasting solution to sovereign debt
Eurodad, Afrodad, Latindadd, Jubilee USA and the Third World Network (TWN) joined hands to call in a joint statement for a lasting solution to the sovereign debt crisis and the establishment of a fair and independent international debt workout mechanism. Following the global financial crisis, low-, middle- and high-income countries are seeing increased levels of sovereign debt. Today no international mechanism exists to deal comprehensively and effectively with sovereign debt problems, according to…
The vague “green economy” on the spotlight in Madrid
Roberto Bissio, director of the Third World Institute (ITeM) an international co-ordinator of Social Watch, was interviewed in Madrid by Spaniard journalist Susana Hidalgo (). The conversation, within the framework of the seminar “The Rio+20 we are navigating: Is that the future we want?”, dealt with the variety of definitions assigned by the international community and the social movements to the concept of “green economy”. Bissio also spoke with Hidalgo about the needed reforms towards…
First Arab Watch Report: Governments forget their pledges on basic rights
Arab governments are legally bound by the constitutions to respect basic economic and social rights, but they usually abandon their commitments in the practice as time goes by, according to the first Arab Watch Report, launched by civil society organizations of ten Middle East and North African countries. The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) launched this first regional report on economic and social rights – focused on the rights to work and to education…