Our common right to health

Gabriele Koehler March 30, 2020 Acute deaths, chronic deaths The COVID19 pandemic is frightening. The staggering number of deaths in just a few months is numbing our minds and breaking our hearts. Medical disasters such as the current covid-19 pandemic, or natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, earthquakes, or man-made disasters such as…

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The Politics of Social Inclusion. From Knowledge to Action

Geneva, Friday, 15 November 2019, 12.30 p.m. – 2 p.m. Library Events Room, Palais des Nations, B Building, 1st Floor In collaboration with UNRISD. The idea of social inclusion is the bedrock of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its promise to leave no one behind. How have slum dwellers in Kampala made their…

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Blinder Fleck Gleichstellung

Warum SDG 5 (noch) nicht in der deutschen Politik angekommen ist Mit Verabschiedung der Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung sowie der darin enthaltenen 17 Ziele (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) hat sich auch die Bundesregierung zu einer Reihe politischer Absichten bekannt. Denn die Agenda 2030 gilt für alle Länder gleichermaßen, egal ob im globalen Süden oder…

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Blinder Fleck Gleichstellung

Warum SDG 5 (noch) nicht in der deutschen Politik angekommen ist Mit Verabschiedung der Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung sowie der darin enthaltenen 17 Ziele (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) hat sich auch die Bundesregierung zu einer Reihe politischer Absichten bekannt. Denn die Agenda 2030 gilt für alle Länder gleichermaßen, egal ob im globalen Süden oder…

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Creative Coalitions in a Fractured World An Opportunity for Transformative Change?

As citizens, as activists, and as analysts, we are alarmed by ever-increasing political, social, economic, and climate inequalities and intensifying obstacles vis-à-vis the promises of the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Policy retrogression is undermining transformation towards economic, social and climate justice. The growing fractures are ultimately caused by the structures and trends of the economic system,…

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Creative coalitions for transformative change

Gabriele Köhler

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SDG 5 and the HLPF process – just singing and dancing in circles or actually moving?

The HLPF process has come under critique for being an insiders’ airbrushing exercise. So the question is: what is the normative role and impact of the 2030 Agenda? Is there any real pressure from a UN document which after all is now a few years old now, was elaborated by more  progressive governments, does not…

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Creative Coalitions in a Fractured World An Opportunity for Transformative Change?

As citizens, as activists, and as analysts, we are alarmed by ever-increasing political, social, economic, and climate inequalities and intensifying obstacles vis-à-vis the promises of the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Policy retrogression is undermining transformation towards economic, social and climate justice. The growing fractures are ultimately caused by the structures and trends of the economic system,…

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Creative Coalitions in a Fractured World An Opportunity for Transformative Change?

As citizens, as activists, and as analysts, we are alarmed by ever-increasing political, social, economic, and climate inequalities and intensifying obstacles vis-à-vis the promises of the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Policy retrogression is undermining transformation towards economic, social and climate justice. The growing fractures are ultimately caused by the structures and trends of the economic system,…

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