Source : Gender Action- Gender Action announces the publication of its fourth “Gender Action Link”, Gender, the IFIs and Debt, which highlights how International Financial Institution debt exacerbates the feminization of poverty and undermines gender equality. The Link specifically examines typical gender impacts of IFI loan conditions on female workers such as an increase in the amount of care-work for women and the exclusion of poor women and girls from essential health services. (more…)
Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states, colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen:(more…)
DAWN’s Supplement on ICPD+15: ICPD+15 at the Crossroads: Health, Rights and Citizenship; Advocating for Full Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Still and Uphill Battle; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Global Finance - Crisis or Opportunity?; ICPD Agenda Remains Fragmented. See pdf: DAWN’s Supplement on ICPD+15
By John W. Foster, researcher at the North-South Institute
Crowded into Monumental Baptist Church, several hundred youth, community folk and activists spent three hours with Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz, Steelworkers leader Leo Gerard, Washington-based Emira Woods, Enrique Daza of the Hemispheric Social Alliance, Carl Redwood Junior of the Hill District Consensus Group, Rev. John Welsh of the Pittsburgh theological school, Tammy Ban Luu of the Labour/Community Strategy Center of Los Angeles and others. On the “hill”, just down the street from the tent “village” and in one of Pittsburgh’s “no go” areas (according to our taxi driver), the atmosphere was charged with enthusiasm.
Two Financing for Development items have been taken up during the General Segment of the Substantive session of the Economic and Social Council in Geneva over the past week (23-30 July). (more…)
This South Centre Bulletin is a special edition focusing on the outcome of the UN Conference on the Financial Crisis held on 24-26 June. The first articles provide an analysis of the Conference’s outcome document. Other articles are on the Centre’s interpretation of the key issues in the conference, and report on the Centre’s press conference at the UN headquarters and on the roundtable in which the Centre and UNCTAD highlighted the need to address the new debt crisis and to provide liquidity to developing countries. See the Bulletin, pdf format: southcentre_un2009
By Ashok B. Sharma - Tue 23 of June, 2009, Source: MyNews.in - On the eve of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development slated to be held in New York from June 24, country’s trade unions and civil society organizations have demanded that India take a firm stand by urging for replacing the ailing global financial architecture by a new one embodying principles of economic justice and equitable Development.
New York, 22 Jun (Martin Khor*) – On the eve of the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis, many issues remain unresolved, even after marathon sessions that go on to near midnight. After an all-day session last Friday, the second reading of the draft outcome document concluded at four in the morning on Saturday. (more…)
Source : Gender Action - Gender Action announces the publication of its fourth “Gender Action Link”, Gender, the IFIs and Debt, which highlights how International Financial Institution debt exacerbates the feminization of poverty and undermines gender equality. The Link specifically examines typical gender impacts of IFI loan conditions on female workers such as an increase in the amount of care-work for women and the exclusion of poor women and girls from essential health services. (more…)
