We invite you to a workshop on climate issues during the Asia Pacific Peoples' Forum on Sustainable Development (APPFSD), part of simultaneous workshops on systemic
Southern CSOs have gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 2nd UN High Level Conference or BAPA+40, happening on March 20 to 22, 2019.
As a “defense contractor,” the Boeing Company rakes in superprofits through its role in the U.S. military-industrial complex, at the expense of people’s rights. More
Towards an initial framework for people-powered sustainable consumption and production.
Indigenous peoples from around the world continue their strong assertions of their right to self-determination as the first months of 2019 march on.
IBON International is concerned about the aggressive posture of the US against Venezula, which compromises the people’s right of the Venezuelan people over their domestic political, social and economic life.
Amid rising inequality worldwide and the continued dominance of neoliberal policy norms that infringe on workers’ rights, various workers’ actions and people’s assertions sparked in the global South.
IBON International joins various organisations in expressing serious concern on the Memorandum Circular No. 15 released by the Philippine government’s Securities and Exchange Commission.
In this previously unpublished article, our executive director, Amy Padilla, reflects on the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings and the parallel People’s Global Conference held in October 2018.
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We have presented two important contributions that civil society organizations can make towards strengthening institutions and frameworks for South-South Cooperation.
According to latest World Bank data on poverty, released October 2018, 46 percent of the world’s population continue to subsist on less than USD 5.50 a day by 2015.
There is a need to assert – especially in Southern countries – that national development strategies should be owned and led by the people.
Despite today’s rising concerns on the inequalities linked to the further consolidation of corporate power, the Maximising Finance for Development threatens to precisely entrench corporations’ hold – within the development agenda.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and what came to be later known as the World Bank Group (WBG) were established in the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference held at the United States (US).
The 2018 IMF-WB meetings are held ten years since the global financial crisis, withthe IMF-WB continuing to privilege the private sector and so-called business friendly investment climate.