A major international agreement banning violence and harassment in the workplace has been adopted by the International Labour Organization’s Centenary Conference in Geneva. This has been hailed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in his address at the Conference. Guterres...
In a statement issued on Sunday, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it remains troubled that civilians are being killed in high numbers and that it has found that during the holy month of Ramadan,...
Editors’ note: In October, US President Donald Trump signed into law the Save Our Seas (SOS) Act of 2018. This law, authored by Senators Dan Sullivan and Sheldon Whitehouse, passed Congress with strong bipartisan support ...
UNCTAD is pleased to announce the launch of ISAR Honours 2019. As its previous edition in 2018, “ISAR Honours” aims to raise awareness and facilitate dissemination of national and international best practices on sustainability...
Tzvetan Todorov
"We must draw a veil over all the horrors of the past,” said Winston Churchill not long after the end of the Second World War. Around the same time, the American philosopher George Santayana issued a warning, often...
What is Food Safety?
Food safety is the absence -- or safe, acceptable levels -- of
hazards in food that may harm the health of consumers. Food-borne
hazards can be microbiological, chemical or physical in nature and are
often invisible...
South-South Ideas – South-South Cooperation – A Theoretical and Institutional Framework (2019)
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR SSC: A STRUCTURALIST FOUNDATION
The engagement of Southern economies with development cooperation since the 1960s, and its policies towards specific sectors have evolved significantly over the...
At a global forum on fair pricing and access to medicines, delegates
from governments and civil society organizations called for greater
transparency around the cost of research and development as well
as production of medicines, to allow buyers to negotiate...
Two
leading economists have put forward a solution to the challenges they
see facing the multilateral system of trade, investment and finance
ahead of the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Bank Group...
This thematic brief seeks to understand the reasons for this situation and to identify actions that governments and employers’ and workers’ organizations could take to advance gender equality through social dialogue. To this end, the brief draws upon innovative...
