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- May 13, 2015
- 4 min
Connecting the pillars: Human Rights and the post-2015 agenda
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
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- Mar 23, 2014
- 3 min
Partnership according to UN-Habitat. A call to save the planet through democracy
“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
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- Sep 25, 2013
- 5 min
The Right to Food: Lessons from India.
– 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
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