Subject: High-level Forum: The Africa We Want in 2030, 2063 and Beyond (20 April 2016) Early Action and Results on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in the context of the First 10 Year Implementation Plan of Africa’s Transformative Agenda 2063From: unis@unvienna.orgDate:…
I attach the latest report from the President of CoNGO that is focused exclusively on the SDGs. I trust it is of interest to our membership. Peter Lillie CoNGO Communication No.17 – February 2016
Refugee Crisis Tens of thousands of people are on the run and Europe is completely overwhelmed by the refugee crisis. Many people are concerned about this situation. Südwind offers many books and films on this subject:
Thousands farm workers, small farmers are being exploited on plantations while they grow, harvest and package bananas for us. Your rights are being trampled. The environment also takes great damage through the use of pesticides. Jointly responsible are supermarkets, which…
Civil Society and Academia Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear NGO representatives, The Human Rights Council in paragraph 9 of its resolution 29/11 on the negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights requested the High…
UNA and Civil Society Networking Meeting 19 October 2015, Vienna International Centre Activities of the CoNGO Committee on Sustainable Development, Vienna and prospects for future cooperation, Summary of the a presentation given on behalf of the CoNGO Committee on Sustainable Development, Vienna…
Peter Lillie informs about the Consensus Reached on New Sustainable Development Agenda to be adopted by World Leaders in September 2015 – > see under UNIS (Bulletin). Here are two documents: 7891TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD N1467001 Synthesis Report of the Secretary-General on On the…
The Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 25-27 September 2015 as the Organization celebrates its seventieth anniversary, have decided on new global Sustainable Development Goals. TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD:…
As part of the Austrian internationalization offensive “go-internationalâ€, a funding initiative of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economics and the Austria Federal Economic Forum and Economic Development was held on 3 September 2015. Below are documented in German
More than 150 world leaders are expected to attend the UN Sustainable Development Summit from 25-27 September at UN headquarters in New York to formally adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the summit…