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Climate change
What happened in Copenhagen and the way forward
The failure of Copenhagen was not a failure of the multilateral process. On the contrary, Copenhagen failed because the open, transparent and intergovernmental process of negotiations under the United Nations system was discarded and set aside deliberately by the developed countries which worked to undermine this process all throughout the two years before Copenhagen.
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NEWS
Selected news
Beijing +15 joint civil society statement
Fri Mar 19 2010 - Source: WIDE
A statement jointly released by civil society organizations and actors in New York concerning the Beijing +15 process review at the Commission on the Status of Women has been endorsed by more than 120 signatories.
World people's conference on climate change takes place in Bolivia
Fri Mar 19 2010 -
An alternative “people’s conference” on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum.
Malawi: country not safe for homosexuals
Thu Mar 18 2010 - Source: IPS - TerraViva
Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country’s police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of being gay.
CAMPAIGNS
End evictions in Mali
Helping Chile

The global financial crisis: implications for the South
The cost of reserves: developing countries pay the price of global financial instability
A report by Eurodad highlights the lack of appropriate regulation and the global monetary (dis)order that have been at the heart of the current financial crisis. The absence of appropriate coordination and adjustment mechanisms of global monetary policies, and the unfettered liberalisation of global financial markets led to dramatic global imbalances and global economic disaster.
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Disarmament
Despite recession, global arms race spirals
The global financial crisis has not deterred some of the world's developed and developing nations from bolstering their military arsenals with expensive new weapons systems, including sophisticated fighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armoured vehicles and air defence systems.
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Beijing +15 - Fifteen-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action
Putting gender economics at the forefront
It is time to put an end to the gender blindness of current economic policies concludes a new occasional paper by the international civil society network Social Watch entitled “Putting gender economics at the forefront. 15 years after the IV World Conference on Women”. The publication is launched March 9 2010 in New York to mark the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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