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28-11-2018

Trade Union’s Topline Demands for COP24 in Katowice

On Sunday 2 December the climate conference COP24 starts in Katowice Poland. The COP takes place in the heartland of coal mining in Poland. It is a symbolic place for all workers worldwide to see that governments take climate change and the impact on workers seriously. These are the Topline Demands of the Unions in Katowice.

25-09-2018

UN General Assembly and UN Global Compact Summit call for a new social contract

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened in New York this week with Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés saying, “The world needs a social contract based on shared responsibility, and the only forum that we have to achieve this global compact is the United Nations.”

20-07-2018

HLPF 2018

On 9-18 July 2018, trade unions were at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2018. The theme for this year’s annual follow-up and review mechanism of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs SDGs The Sustainable Development Goals were one of the outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference. The members States launched a new set of future international development goals, which will build upon the Millennium Development Goals and converge with the post-2015 development agenda. ) was ‘Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies’. It took place at the UN headquarters in New York.

20-07-2018

HLPF 2018 – Ministerial Segment

The second week (16-18 July 2018) of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) hosts the Ministerial Segment. The Ministerial Segment has two parts: a General Debate among Member States, as well, as the presentation of a series of Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs).

14-07-2018

HLPF 2018 – Day 5

Trade unions were at the UN headquarters in New York on 13 July 2018 for Day 5 of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF). The final day of the thematic review segment, it saw the review of Goal 15 (life on land) and of Goal 17 (means of implementation/partnerships).

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