Report from the Peoples General Assembly
Dear all,
Last Sept. 24, the Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development, IBON International, the Asia Pacific Women for Law and Development, the Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-determination and Liberation, and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization successfully held the second People’s General Assembly (PGA) at First Presbyterian Church, New York. The first PGA was initiated last Sept. 21, 2013 at Foley Square Park, New York.
This year, over 110 participants from various civil society organizations, grassroots groups and individuals gathered to raise public awareness about the ongoing intergovernmental negotiations for a new UN development agenda; help build public pressure on governments around the need for a transformative, equitable, sustainable and just development; and strengthen global solidarity and collective strategies amongst people’s movements engaged in the struggle for development justice.
Read highlights from the PGA here: http://peoplesgoals.org/devjustice/highlights-from-the-peoples-general-assembly-2014-a-political-report/
Paul Quintos
IBON International
3rd Flr., IBON Center / 114 Timog Avenue, / Quezon City 1103 / Philippines
Telefax: +63 2 9276981 / Skype ID: paul.quintos / Websites: iboninternational.org / peoplesgoals.org
APMM Position on the OWG Outcome Document
Dear Friends,
Greetings!
We are glad to share with you the following short document that serves as our position on the OWG Final Outcome Document. We hope it can reinforce and add on to the critique that the CPGSD released last August. Please feel free to disseminate it to your networks also. Thanks you very much.
In solidarity,
Aaron Ceradoy
APMM Program Coordinator
CPG response to OWG outcome document
Migration and the OWG Final Outcome Document
Dear all,
As you all know by now the Intergovernmental Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals officially released its final report last July 28 containing proposed goals and targets for the 2015-2030 period.
Please find attached the response of the Campaign for Peoples Goals to this outcome document. The paper examines the OWG’s proposed goals and targets for sustainable development and the emerging Post-2015 development agenda within the larger context of current policy trends and strategies pursued by governments, Washington-based international financial institutions, development agencies, and the business sector It concludes that whatever lofty goals and targets are being proposed, they will not be achieved as long as neoliberalism and the global capitalist development model remains intact.
Thank you.
-- Paul Quintos IBON International 3rd Flr., IBON Center 114 Timog Avenue, Quezon City 1103 Philippines Telefax: +63 2 9276981 Skype ID: paul.quintos Websites: iboninternational.org peoplesgoals.org
Wardarina
Inequality is now so high that a woman garment worker earns less in a year than the Walton family earns every second. Climate change will force 50 million people to migrate from Bangladesh alone. The global crises of inequality and climate are both caused by our global economy. Together they threaten the future of humanity. It’s time for a new model – a model of Development Justice. This video explains Development Justice and the shifts civil society in the Global South demand. It makes the case for why we need a new development model to address the double crises of inequality and environmental collapse. If you’d like to use this video and for citations on statistics used in this video, or dub this video in your language, email leanne@apwld.org.
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Outcome of 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change
Joint-statement-18th-BASIC-New-Delhi
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*Worldview Mission is Standing Up ,* Taking Action* , **Making Noise for the United Nations MDGL’s !!!**