By Gwain Colbert It was President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia who said at the opening of the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance [IDEA] Seminar on ‘Women and Parliament’, 26 September 2006, in Accra, Ghana, that, “We are aware as a result of our fortitude and struggle that there are fortresses of political resistance to this new force of women leadership, but we are certain that the wind of change that has hit the west coast of Africa will blow

by Naiara Costa The first agreement is expected to be adopted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July and will define the architecture for financing for [sustainable] development (FfD), including the means to implement the next edition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In September, heads of government and State will meet at the UN headquarters in New York to adopt the ‘post-2015 sustainable development agenda,’ which encompass the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a

“Sorry if I arrived late and I haven’t been able to follow your talk, but I left my headset for interpretations in another room.” Thus the person representing UN-Habitat began the dialogue with civil society organisations at the World Urban Forum. Not bad for a start, all the more so because, for more than two hours, the participants had been criticizing the veto in the formal debate of hot topics such as the evictions from and land grabbing, or the support of UN-Habitat for

– Elvis –Wura Towolawi On Monday 2nd of September, 2013, India took steps away from the table of poverty and acute malnutrition by passing the Food Security Bill which is to subsidize wheat, rice and cereals for over 800 million people – the hungry poor. This epoch-making Bill when assented to by the President will “guarantee to citizens a legal entitlement and right to food”. India is a land of economic paradox: with a fast growing economy driven by technology, yet saddled w