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18-03-2019

South-South Cooperation policies can be drivers of the SDGs

Trade unions will participate in the in the United Nations’ Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA +40) in their role as central development actors, leading and running development projects in the world. The event will take place in Buenos Aires on 20-22 March 2019

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).

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