UN dues credit return, UNITAR & UNSSC merger, SG Race, UN Tax Convention and more No. 18 | Mid-year Recap […]
The 2027 SDG Summit will be an important moment for Member States, both to take stock of their progress on
HLPF Snapshots, Beyond GDP, UNSG Race and more No. 17 | Addressing power imbalances & inequality No.17 | July 2026
Barbara Adams (GPF) participated as a panelist at the Parliamentary Forum, a Special Event during the 2026 High-Level Political Forum
Barbara Adams (GPF) participated as a panelist at a roundtable hosted by the Permanent Mission of Republic of Korea to
The 2026 Regional Forum on Sustainable Development of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), to be held 22 April 2026,
Takeaways from the Second UN World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) Unable to ignore the proliferation of multiple and multidimensional
Barbara Adams (GPF) participated as a panelist at International Youth Conference’s workshop, “The Road to the 2nd World Social Summit
Looking towards the 11th Session of the Expert Mechanism on Right to Development (EMRTD) (2-4 April 2025 at UNHQ) |
View & Download a PDF version (best) Global Policy UN Watch 2025 | WSSD2 Alert – Global Policy ForumPreparations for
Member State priorities and concerns on achieving social development and justice Download PDF version | Versión en español In This
Barbara Adams (GPF) spoke as a panelist at the 62nd Commission on Social Development (CSocD62) Civil Society Forum. “We have
The Second Committee of the 78th UN General Assembly held a side event, co-hosted by International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UN
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Surya Deva, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
This GPW Round Up #6 features a selection of perspectives from the sessions held in May 2023. Read more
The 2023 global Multidimensional Poverty Index was launched at an official Side Event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Fiji
Julie E. Kim, Global Policy Forum | Dec 5, 2022 (Originally published on IATP) This article is the sixth in
This GPW Round Up #1, entitled “The Debt Crisis and Illicit Financial Flows” looks at the UN Secretary-General’s proposals in his report Our Common Agenda to address this crisis, starting with a Biennial Summit between the G20, ECOSOC and IFIs, and asks “Does Our Common Agenda provide solutions?” Read more
Barbara Adams (GPF) spoke at an High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) side event on Voluntary National Reviews as a panelist. See
Statement by Elena Marmo (GPF) on behalf of the Women’s Major Group (pdf) As the effects of the pandemic deepen
By Barbara Adams and Tejaswini Vavilala
The second PrepCom session will take place on 26-30 July 2021 and will launch negotiations on the Programme of Action for LDCs for the next decade, a decade that coincides with the last decade of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This is the last HLPF before the Doha conference / LDC5. During the HLPF Ministerial segment of the HLPF, eight LDCs will present their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), making a total of 53 LDC VNR presentations over the last six years, many by countries for the second, and some for a third, time. Read more
By Bodo Ellmers
In the lead-up to the UN’s Financing for Development Forum that takes place virtually from April 12-15, the 2021 edition of the Financing for Sustainable Development Report has been released. The report is published by the so-called Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), which comprises numerous UN entities, but also the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. It is widely considered the most comprehensive source of data and analysis on development finance topics.Read more
Barbara Adams (GPF) interviewed by IWRAW Asia Pacific 02/25/2021 Watch the interview of Barbara Adams (GPF) by International Women’s Rights Action Watch
Members of the Civil Society Community have launched a website on feminist responses to COVID-19, an initiative born out of an alliance between members of feminist networks working on multilateral platforms. The below guest blog is an introduction to the initiative, a feminist analysis of COVID-19 and a collection of feminist principles and actions needed to create urgent and systemic change. Read more
