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Newsletter of the Trade Union Development Cooperation Network, Issue
no. 22, February 2012 |
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Policies Key
trade union messages on Social Protection Floors
Social
Protection Floors approach is a powerful tool for poverty reduction and
ensuring basic human rights. ITUC and ETUC formulated Key messages on Social Protection
Floors to encourage the European Commission to support this instrument in
their development cooperation policy and practice.
Policies Danish
Presidency – what priorities for development policy?
Denmark
has taken over the EU Presidency until the end of June this year. In spite of
many other important priorities related to the European economic crisis,
Danes still make ambitious plans in the field of development and declare
efforts to “make development policy a more central part of EU foreign
policy”.
Policies Millennium Development Goals and what comes
after
MDGs
took ten years to be formulated and agreed on by the world’s leaders. With
less than three years to their expiration date, the debate on what should come
after is rapidly speeding up. Ban Ki-Moon listed the post-2015 framework as
one of his priorities and a reference to the post-MDG agenda has been made in
the zero draft of the Rio+20 conference. Still, how will the development
goals look like after 2015 remains unclear.
Policies UN Rio+20 Conference – is this the future
we want?
Twenty
years after one of the first and most important global conferences on
environmental issues, world leaders will gather again in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
to discuss the environmental, economic and social challenges the planet faces
today. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development “Rio+20” will take place
on 20-22 June 2012. The preparations of the trade union delegation to the
summit are gathering speed. Policies EC communication on trade and development
In the
end of January the European Commission released their overdue communication
on trade and development, where a few significant changes to the EU trade
policy towards developing countries are proposed. The European Parliament
will discuss the Communication, after which the conclusions will be adopted
by the EU Trade Ministers in March this year.
News from the Network Plan of
TUDCN activities in 2012
In 2012
TUDCN plans a number of outreach and advocacy activities, meetings and
seminars, researches and publications as well as other actions. The key
priorities for 2012 are the post-Busan framework, EU instruments and policies
on development and trade union development effectiveness indicators.
News from the Network TUDCN
General Meeting – Florence, 12-14 December 2011
In the
beautiful setting of the Centro Studi CISL, sitting on a hill near Florence,
Trade Union Development Cooperation Network held their bi-annual General
Meeting to discuss recent developments and plans for the future. Key elements
of the agenda included debriefing of the 4th High Level Forum on Aid
Effectiveness and an overview of the other current development policy
processes. The meeting was attended by over forty trade union representatives
from all around the world. News from the Network "Together we can do more". ISCOS’s
prospects in international TU cooperation
An
article on the ISCOS’s prospects in international trade union cooperation by
the president of ISCOS-CISL, Renzo Bellini.
News from the Network SOTERMUN continues its work in Haiti
SOTERMUN,
the USO’s development NGO, is continuing the project work in Haiti that it
has been engaged in continuously both before and after the last earthquake.
It is now two years since the disaster that plunged the country even deeper
into poverty and triggered a cholera epidemic with very serious consequences.
News from the platforms CSO Development Effectiveness toolkits
launched
Just
one month after concluding the landmark international development agreement
with governments and donors in Busan, South Korea, civil society organizations
(CSOs) worldwide start work with two important resources to implement their
people-centered approach to poverty eradication and advocate for more
democratic space. The Implementation and Advocacy ‘Toolkits’ are now available to guide
NGOs, grassroots organizations and other people’s groups to put the International Framework for CSO
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April 2012 21-26
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Publications Social
protection: a question of social change - The vision and strategies of social
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About
us The Trade
Union Development Cooperation Network (TUDCN) is an initiative of the
International Trade Union Confederation that brings together affiliated trade
union organisations, solidarity support organisations, regional ITUC
organisations and the Global Union Federations. |
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document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European
Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the ITUC
and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the
European Union. |
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