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  Experiencing the Sanctity of Life (Imagining Sustainability - 4)

  

  Dutch CIDSE member Cordaid and Both ENDS collected the visions and insights of seven Southern visionaries, each with a unique approach to transforming his or her dream into concrete, local initiatives. We present you their visions of sustainability based on…

  By Cordaid - Monday, 11 June 2012
  • moema de miranda
  • rioplus20
  • brazil
  • sustainable development
  • sustainable agriculture
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  Tough EU transparency laws could change lives in resource-rich Congo

  

  We don't know how much money the Democratic Republic of the Congo government gets from the exploitation of our oil, gas, minerals and timber. That must change.

  By Joseph Banga - Monday, 30 April 2012
  • EU
  • country by country reporting
  • transnational corporations
  • private sector
  • extractive industries
  • business & human rights
  • transparency
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  Welcome to CIDSE’s new online home

  

  A space to connect and share knowledge, views and experiences, strengthening the call for global justice of the international alliance of Catholic development agencies.

  By Roeland Scholtalbers - Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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  No Free Trade at the expense of the people of Latin America

  

  On the 22nd March European parliamentarians hosted a debate on natural resources and forthcoming trade agreements with Colombia, Peru and Central America, which might have negative consequences for human rights, the environment, social conflict and poverty eradication.

  By Geraldine McDonald - Wednesday, 28 March 2012
  • european parliament
  • human rights
  • peru
  • colombia
  • EU
  • Latin America
  • extractive industries
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  Sustainable Development Goals: MDGs 2.0?

  

  There are important lessons to be learned from the MDGs in light of a future framework which should secure well-being for all human beings and nature.

  By Jean Saldanha - Tuesday, 20 March 2012
  • rioplus20
  • human rights
  • cafod
  • sustainable development
  • millennium development goals
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  Linking trade and financial policies

  

  In the run-up to the coming quadrennial conference of UNCTAD, Aldo Caliari of CIDSE's US member Center of Concern was one of the speakers at a Hearing with Civil society being held on March 7, 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland.

  By Aldo Caliari (CoC) - Friday, 16 March 2012
  • global governance
  • international financial governance
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  FTT: no surrogates please

  

  Since economist James Tobin launched the idea in 1972, we have never been closer to the implementation of a financial transaction tax (FTT).

  By Bernd Nilles - Friday, 10 February 2012
  • EU
  • innovative sources
  • financial transaction tax
  • development finance

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