Author: Gabriele Koehler
The 2nd World Summit for Social Development
From November 4 to 6, 2025, the second United Nations World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) will take place in Doha, Qatar. The summit aims to bring social development back into the spotlight of international cooperation. Among other things, the goal is to revitalize global efforts to combat poverty, overcome inequalities, promote gender equality, and…
Read MoreTropenmedizin
Ein neues Handbuch zur Tropenmedizin – wobei dieser Begriff in den Aufsätzen auch hinterfragt wird – thematisiert klinische Krankheiten und Reisemedizin, aber auch Mental Health, Gesundheitsökononomie in einkommensarmen Ländern, Frauen- und Müttermedizin, Medizinanthropologie des Globalen Südens, Klimawandel und Gesundheit, Migrationsmedizin, und globale soziale Transformationen. Der Beitrag von Günter Fröschl und Gabriele Köhler behandelt Grundlagen der…
Read MoreComments on The Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality
As children and young people are murdered, on a daily basis, in Gaza, Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan and many other countries, does it even make sense to do research? What effect can this have? The purpose of committed research course is to document inequities, uncover and analyse systemic issues, chart existing policies and their impact, and…
Read MoreThe Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality
The Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality addresses the many forms of child poverty, economic, social and political exclusions and how to measure them https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781802200430/9781802200430.xml. See my comments here.
Global Social Policy Forum
The world is awash with money but wealth is highly concentrated while economic poverty is rampant. One way to address this social injustice is to redistribute through progressive taxation and to universalize social protection. On this, see a riveting Global Social Policy Forum on thinking afresh. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14680181241290162?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles Wonderful to join Nicola Yeates, Roosa Lambin, Nabila…
Read MoreThe big disconnect
We note a disconcerting disconnect at the annual SDG meet at the UN between what governments say in New York and that they do at home. The German government is a prime example. Its 2025 SDG report is good, covers many themes and is honest on shortcomings (it was actually penned by the preceding government…
Read More2025 summits: webinar
Global Summit Watch is convening a webinar presenting and discussing the many summit conferences of 2025 on Monday 21 July 12:30. Join me and other speakers at the Bahai Centre New York or online.bit.ly/NY-Global-Summit-Watch. Background here.
Watching the 2025 global commitments pipeline
Multilateralism is weak (to put it mildly), but global summitry remains strong in 2025 nevertheless, with a string of meetings at heads of state/government level, and forceful progressive civil society presence and pressure. Thus, for instance, feminists celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action at the Commission on the Status of Women…
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The 2nd World Summit for Social Development
Global society is riven by deep inequalities – political, social, economic, ecological, technological. The inequalities are deepened by produced divisions around economic and political status, genders, ethnicity, indigeneity, caste, faith, and location, to name just a few. There are more simultaneous deadly aggressions in the form of international and civil wars, and persistent persecution of…
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