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A new treaty for a sustainable and just future?

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - July 9, 2024July 9, 2024

A High-Level Political Forum – described as one of the most important events of the year for discussing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—will take place at the United Nations through July 18. Will this year edition be covered by global media? Will the international community and the people in

The impact of climate change on a biodiversity hot spot

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - March 31, 2024March 31, 2024

If there is a place where the interlinkages and dependencies between the effects of climate warming and biodiversity loss are clearly at display, it’s Nepal. There is clear evidence on the impact of climate change on the country’s ecosystem considering the fact that Nepal is an important biodiversity hotspot. Climate change

Britain’s King Charles III admitted to hospital

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - January 26, 2024January 26, 2024

King Charles III was on Friday admitted to a London hospital for scheduled surgery, Buckingham Palace said, a week after revealing the British monarch would be treated for an enlarged prostate. "The king was this morning admitted to a London hospital for scheduled treatment," the palace added in a statement. "His Majesty

Reality is governments not truly held accountable to implement SDGs

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - September 22, 2023September 23, 2023

What does transformative and sweeping really mean in the overarching efforts to achieve the Agenda 2030? With the conclusion of the second edition of the SDG Summit, it is time for stocktaking on what was agreed at the United Nations HQ in New York this week. At the core of the

International Women’s Day, 2023: A new global architecture to defend & promote rights of women & girls

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - March 6, 2023March 6, 2023

If you want to have a good reading on women and young girls’ activism, there is a high chance that you have missed an incredibly interesting report. Entitled Girls’ and Young Women’s Activism, the publication is a product of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, formally a

Can the UN do a better job with democracy?

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - January 8, 2023January 9, 2023

The UN Democracy Fund, also known as UNDEF, is an interesting tool but it is too small and lacking resources to mark a difference. How can the UN do a better job at promoting democracy? This is a key question that high-ranking policy makers at the UN should ask themselves. It is

A plea for the creation of a UN Youth Assembly

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - September 5, 2022September 6, 2022

There are many ways the UN can have a sizeable role in promoting the engagement and participation of youth and helping them becoming a central pillar of a new way of doing policy-making. After all, if we want to rethink the relationships between the state and citizens, the foundation of a

UN’s Education Summit: An opportunity to create a bottom-up global governance

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

The upcoming summit on Education, part of the UN Secretary General’s ambitious agenda, can truly bring accountability and participation to the inevitably new ways education will be imparted in the future. With scorching temperatures, uncontrolled flames and floods devastating our planet, millions of people are realizing that we are all going

UN system is in urgent need of reform

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- Simone Galimberti, IPS - June 4, 2022June 5, 2022

Few deny the huge role the United Nation plays in global multilateral system especially in the area of poverty eradication, sustainability and climate change. As enabler of the Agenda 2030, the UN system has the ability, stemming from its extraordinary convening powers, to bring around the table global leaders and key