Culture
14 Feb 2013
As part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Global Thematic Consultations, this High-Level Leadership Meeting will review the final report and findings of the Global Consultation on Inequalities with the aim of developing a statement and recommendations. The first day of the Meeting will be a Public Dialogue and will address: why inequalities matter and the impacts of inequalities on both societies and individuals; the different dimensions of inequality, synergies between them and the common...
07 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN Task Team for the Post-2015 Development Agenda (UNTT), along with several UN agencies, has released two new thematic think pieces, describing the challenges of the current multilateral trading system, and offering recommendations for enhanced trade partnerships for more inclusive development in the post-2015 agenda.
Titled ”Trade and Development and the Global Partnership beyond 2015″ and “Trade in the Global Partnership for Development beyond 2015,...
29 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 January 2013: The UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) produced a Note by the Secretariat on the multi-stakeholder dialogue to be held at its tenth session (UNFF 10), which will run from 8-19 April 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey. The note reports on actions taken since UNFF 9 and presents suggestions on enhancing the effectiveness of the upcoming multi-stakeholder dialogue.
Inter-sessionally, four stakeholder workshops were organized by the UNFFF Secretariat on facilitating finance for Small Island...
26 Jan 2013
Following renewal of its mandate by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the 24th session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) will continue negotiations on an international instrument/instruments, focusing on traditional knowledge and particularly the subject matter of protection, beneficiaries, scope of protection, and limitation and exceptions. [ for more information...
10 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: Panama and Mauritius have become the 10th and 11th countries respectively to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Panama ratified the Protocol on 12 December and Mauritius on 17 December of 2012. Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, India, Jordan, Lao PDR, Mexico, Rwanda and the Seychelles have already ratified. The Nagoya Protocol will...
