News: The Roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth

Today, the Roadmap on Poverty Eradication beyond Growth was presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.  It was developed under the mandate of the former Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, building on more than 400 contributors from trade unions, UN agencies, academics, policymakers, and civil society movements across…

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The roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth

To eradicate the many forms of poverty and inequalities, to ensure human rights, labour rights, decent work, gender equality commitments, and climate and environmental justice in global value chains, we need the international community to adopt a binding treaty on business and human rights. In fact, UN member states have been negotiating such a treaty…

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„Beyond 2030“ auf den Bayerischen Eine Welt-Tagen 2026

Bitte vormerken: Freitag 3. Juli 2026 auf den Bayrischen Eine Welt Tagen, Kongress am Park, Augsburg 14.15 Uhr – Raum Singold INFOSHOP: “Beyond 2030: Brauchen wir noch globale Entwicklungsziele?” Mit Gabriele Köhler, Women Engage for a Common Future und Raphael Thalhammer, Nord Süd Forum München e.V. Zum Programm. Mehr dazu.

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Agenda 2030 am Scheideweg: Wie geht globale Entwicklung nach 2030 weiter?

Mit der Agenda 2030 und den SDGs hatten die Vereinte Nationen 2015 einen (relativ) ambitionierten Rahmen für nachhaltige Entwicklung geschaffen. Doch die Realität zeigt: Viele Ziele sind außer Reichweite, globale Krisen verschärfen bestehende Ungleichheiten und die politische Bereitschaft zur Zusammenarbeit bröckelt. Viele der versprochenen Verbesserungen sind nicht realisiert. Kritische Stimmen weisen schon lange darauf hin, dass die…

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World Inequality Conference

Looking forward to our panel on global inequalities Paris, France – 5 June 2026 – · 16h00-18h00  – · Room P005 Chaired by @gastonnievas https://www.gastonnievas.comhttps://x.com/gatonievas The panel addresses global and domestic economic inequalities and unequal exchange. My paper discusses TNCs and their global value chains: how they operate and how to tame them. See here.

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Redressing hyper-globalisation and the inequities systemically generated in GVCs: Multilateral efforts at the UN

Hyperglobalisation – unfettered capitalism – causes multiple, interlinked economic, social, environmental, climate and gendered inequities, harming norms of social justice,  at times outright ignoring human rights and agreed labour standards. Business activities can have harmful effects – the Rana Plaza factory collapse and Brumadinho dam breach are two well-known examples. TNCs argue that these were…

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Beyond 2030

Various country groupings, parts of the UN, and academic institutions  have begun generating ideas, for a post-2030 development agenda. Here a proposal to rethink direction AND  process. See “Towards a truly transformative development agenda”

Towards a truly transformative development agenda

The 2030 Agenda – “transforming our world “- with its 17 SDGs is meant to be accomplished by 2030. Half of the SDGs’ targets are off track and several regressing. In terms of geopolitical constellations, a large number of UN member states have turned authoritarian and enamoured by austerity. In terms of ability to advocate…

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Symposium

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One health symposium at Munich’s Centre for International Health

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