Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Global Governance, Governance

Showing 241-250 of 529 results

Pages

  • Document

    Gender, violence and the post-2015 framework

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    Should the post-2015 development agenda include a specific focus on violence against women? Should gender-equity be a goal in the development agenda? This publication emphasises the urgent need for ensuring the human rights of women and girls by making them national and global commitments.
  • Document

    I know. I want. I dream. Girls’ insights for building a better world

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2013
    In 2013, a multi-country research effort was initiated to ensure that girls’ voices would guide the global development agenda. Implemented by the research firm 2CV, in close collaboration with local research partners and NGOs, the goal of the Post-2015 Adolescent Girl Consultations was to create a platform for girls to voice their unique insights, opinions and ideas.
  • Document

    African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.
  • Document

    Delivering a Just Future for All: Why Human Rights Matter to Sustainable Development: Policy Briefing Post-2015 Framework

    Amnesty International, 2014
    There is widespread international agreement that human rights are central to effective economic and social development for all, ensuring that nobody and no country is left behind. Key lessons from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) highlight the dangers of neglecting human rights. The MDGs expire in 2015 and are due to be replaced by a new framework.
  • Document

    Africa in 2030: Responsive States, Empowered Citizens. Findings from citizen-driven workshops on the post-2015 framework held in 13 African countries

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    In 2003, the Maputo Declaration of the African Union stated that, within five years, 10 per cent of budgets of member states would be dedicated to agriculture. Ten years on, despite spending increases by some countries African governments still allocate an average of only 4 per cent of their national budgets to agriculture.
  • Document

    The Catholic Church at the United Nations: Church or State?

    Catholics for Choice, 2013
    The Holy See is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome. Ever since it was informally accepted into the United Nations in 1964, questions have been raised about the Holy See’s status and role at the UN.
  • Document

    Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights: Unfinished Business

    UN Women, 2014
    UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka delivered this opening speech at the first in a series of events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, outcomes of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women (1995).
  • Document

    Protecting the girl child: using the law to end child, early and forced marriage and related human rights violations

    Equality Now, 2014
    “What if instead of being treated as someone’s property to be betrothed, raped, abused, sold, with no power over her destiny, a girl is healthy, safe, educated, and empowered?”
  • Document

    Brazil in the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding: a perspective

    CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment, 2013
    Brazil is the most active developing country user overall of the WTO’s DSU (Dispute Settlement Understanding). This paper highlights that Brazil has brought complaints in 25 cases, been a respondent in 14 cases and participated as a third party in 64 cases.
  • Document

    Social protection, poverty and the post-2015 agenda

    World Bank, 2013
    Defining social protection as a collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind, this paper argues that social protection needs to be on the post-2015 agenda as a key element of the discourse.

Pages