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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 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 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.
Book launch and panel
SDGs and decent work at the 9th ILO conference on regulating for decent work (Geneva, 2-4 July 2025) The panel chaired by Christoph Scherrer featured 5 chapters of the comprehensive volume. ©ILO from left to right: Panelists, chapter authors Fiona Dragsta, Gerhard Bosch, Nausheen Nizami, Uma Rani, Christoph Scherrer, Rishabh Dhir, Gabriele Köhler See ideas and commentaries for…
Read MoreComing up: ILO conference on regulating for decent work
As mentioned earlier, the ILO conference on regulating for decent work starts on 2 July. See ideas and commentaries.
Just out: Global value chains
Global value chains are the missing link in the UN’s fight against povertyhttps://globallabourcolumn.org/
Just out: UN Summit for Social Development
A plaidoyer for attention to the UN Summit for Social Development in Doha in November 2025 https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025-world-social-summit-must-not-missed-opportunity/#google_vignette See ideas and commentaries