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'Women, youth and children demand development justice, end to plutocracy' – CPG

March 7, 2014 No Comments

Paul Quintos of IBON International, who also represents the Campaign for People’s Goals for Sutainable Development (CPG), delivered the opening remarks on Thursday, 6 March 2014, at a United Nations High Level Event organized by the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA) in New York City. This OPGA-HLE, the first in six, is on “Contributions of women, the young and civil society to the post-2015 development agenda.”

‘Women, youth and children demand development justice, end to plutocracy’ – CPG

March 7, 2014 No Comments

CSO Partnership Recommendations on HRBA

February 27, 2014 No Comments

The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) advocates the human rights-based approach (HRBA) in development, and concrete HRBA policies to empower the people (as rights-holders) to hold the various development stakeholders (as duty-bearers) accountable.

Southern CSOs: 'We demand a climate fund for people and planet, not private profit'

February 20, 2014 No Comments

Southern civil society organizations issued a statement, dated February 19, on the occasion of the Sixth Meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board in Bali, Indonesia. Some 28 CSOs, including IBON International, signed the statement demanding a Green Climate Fund “that serves the welfare of people and planet and not private profit.”

Southern CSOs: ‘We demand a climate fund for people and planet, not private profit’

February 20, 2014 No Comments

Promoting Equality for Sustainable Development

February 11, 2014 No Comments

The Eighth Session of the Open Working Group (OWG8), an ongoing United Nations process for defining Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), convened from February 3 to 7, 2014 in New York. The OWG, established by the UN General Assembly in January last year to prepare a proposal on SDGs that may be adopted after 2015, discussed the following concerns: (1) Oceans and seas, forests, biodiversity; (2) Promoting equality, including social equity, gender equality and women’s empowerment; and (3) Conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and the promotion of durable peace, rule of law and governance.

UN-NGLS interviews IBON leader on corporate human rights standards

January 30, 2014 No Comments

IBON International’s Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo was recently interviewed by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the recent Human Rights and Business Forum and the role of the private sector in the post-2015 agenda.

Documentary on climate change features IBON Internat'l climate activist

January 29, 2014 No Comments

On November 11, 2013, the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) on Climate Change opened in Warsaw, Poland. The top-level meeting of governments, with 195 member nations and global negotiators in attendance, were supposed to agree on the details of a new international and legally binding agreement to more effectively curb GHG emissions and eventually reduce global warming.

Documentary on climate change features IBON Internat’l climate activist

January 29, 2014 No Comments

IBON Int’l blasts WTO Bali deal, calls for global fight vs new neoliberal offensive

December 8, 2013 No Comments

IBON International Director Antonio Tujan Jr. today condemned the new trade deal finalized at the recently concluded 9th World Trade Organization ministerial in Bali, Indonesia, as a license for a renewed neoliberal offensive against developing countries.

Midnight Deal in Bali

December 7, 2013 No Comments

The Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization concluded a new trade deal after intensive consultations almost round the clock from Wednesday 4 December until the early hours of Friday 6 December, followed by overnight meetings of heads of all delegations the following night.

WTO Deadlock in Bali

December 5, 2013 No Comments

On the third day of the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in this resort island of Indonesia, negotiations appear headed for another failure.

Drawing the lines in Bali: Global South must demand no less than development justice

December 5, 2013 No Comments

Lines have been drawn as world leaders gather in Bali for the World Trade Organization’s ninth summit. On one side are the world’s wealthiest countries, including the United States, the European Union, Australia, and Canada, among others. On the other side, resistant to the proposals of this powerful bloc, stands the rest of the world: from the so-called “emerging” to developing to the least developed economies.

Bullying and Blackmailing in Bali

December 3, 2013 No Comments

BALI, 3 December 2013 – The Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) commenced today with trade ministers and officials from over 160 countries seeking a deal that would salvage the image of what was once the vanguard institution for globalization.

Stronger human rights accountability and remedy for corporate abuses urgently needed

December 3, 2013 No Comments

As the second annual United Nations (UN) Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva officially opens today, 3 December, messages from stakeholder sessions highlight low awareness and uptake of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) as well as the continuing human rights violations and impunity of corporate abuses across the globe.

Counterpoint in Bali: People’s Global Camp vs WTO

December 3, 2013 No Comments

Civil society groups, social movements and grassroots organizations are set to converge on December 3-6, 2013 for the People’s Global Camp (PGC) in Ngurah Rai Sports Center, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia—a parallel event to the 9th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO).