Development financing: Eradicating poverty or private sector promotion?
The following article largely consists of excerpts from a policy brief titled “Development Financing: Serving whose interest?” which can be read here. Ongoing discussions for
The following article largely consists of excerpts from a policy brief titled “Development Financing: Serving whose interest?” which can be read here. Ongoing discussions for
13 July 2019, New York – Previous commitments and today’s emerging issues in development cooperation require deepening commitment to people’s rights, according to IBON International,
The implementation of the current development agenda, especially the questions of financing, deserve closer inspection in today’s context of protracted crisis and rising inequalities.
We welcome possibilities to make engagement with the private sector more effective, particularly with micro-, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and other small producers, towards development objectives.
On the resolution for increased scrutiny of the deteriorating rights situation in the Philippines was approved at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
As its membership and project portfolio continue to grow, social movements have raised the alarm on the AIIB ushering in an expanded era of corporatization of development and environmental unsustainability.
The High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development convenes again this July, with the theme “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and inequality.”
As the HLPF opens in 2019, the agenda for sustainable development remains at a critical point today amid a worsening climate crisis, shrinking democratic spaces and economic models exploitative to both peoples and natural resources.
We join the ranks of civil society organisations (CSOs) and rights defenders in supporting international efforts for the defence of people’s rights in the Philippines.
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It will be held under the theme “Asian Perspectives and Priorities in SCP: Bridging Sustainability Research with Policy and Practice” at the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption.
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IBON International expresses its solidarity with the victims of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique.
At the ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum follow-up (FfD Forum), Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo raised concerns on unfulfilled commitments on the quantity and quality of aid,
IBON International condemns the killings and other attacks against farmers and land rights defenders in the global South.
Civil society, activists, and campaigners from around the world called on development actors to uphold their commitments for CSO enabling environment, to reverse the trend of shrinking and closing civic spaces, and to put an end to attacks against human rights defenders and civil society workers.