A global social response, by President Bachelet
A global social response The world is facing an extraordinarily challenging moment, marked by the emergence of a series of different crises that, together, will require the international community’s maximum attention and efforts. Following the 2007 food crisis, in 2008 we faced the most serious global financial and economic crisis since 1929. Both coincided with the growing realization that mankind must deal with another deeper and larger crisis; climate change. As a response to these crises, over the past year the international community has seen an unprecedented degree of mobilization aimed at reactivating the international economy and laying the foundation for an international agreement on global warming. In some saes there has been real progress. The G-20 has agreed on a series of (...)
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2 March 2010
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24 February 2010
In an international arena where innovative financing for development is gaining ground, the Seventh Plenary Session of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development assembled the main players in the field in Santiago, under the Chilean Presidency, on 28 and 29 January 2010. This involved States, NGOs, international organisations, (...)Chilean presidency’s letter to the Hon. Steven Harper on fighting illicit flows
15 February 2010
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26 January 2010
Migrant remittances to developing countries totalled an estimated $338 billion in 2008 according to the most recent figures published by the World Bank. In 2008 the main countries benefiting from these money transfers were India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Nigeria, Romania, Bangladesh, Egypt and Vietnam. The main countries (...)Global lottery
6 January 2010
Presented in the Landau report’s menu of options, the idea of a global lottery or a “humanitarian lottery” has been aired regularly in a number of UN forums since 1972. Recently, it has been advocated by the WFP, the FAO and the IFAD, together with Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Under-Secretary (...)
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