The Coming Global Food Fight - John Cavanagh and Robin Broad
G8 declaration won't work without effective development aid
Botswana: Mounting tension must end says South African civil society coalition
Aid Policy: What the numbers don't tell you
Are you part of positive change in the Arab world?
The 12th AWID International Forum On Women's Rights And Development: Submission deadline extended
Civil Society vacancies and other opportunities
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In the culmination of an intensive six-year process to devise a widely-accepted framework to govern the relationship between businesses and human rights, United Nations Special Representative Professor John Ruggie presented his Final Report on 30 May.
As food prices force millions more under the threshold of absolute poverty into hunger, with predictable consequences even as aid promises are reneged upon, John Cavanagh and Robin Broad outline a route beyond food security to food sovereignty through rooted communities in this week's guest editorial.
It's time for a new international development paradigm for Least Developed Countries, writes David Kode, Policy Officer at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
World Leaders and policy makers have a remarkable capacity to emulate progress without actually achieving anything.
Ingrid Srinath, Secretary General CIVICUS
European powers appear set on perpetuating their arbitrary "entitlement" to the position of Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in the wake of the controversy that precipitated the resignation earlier this month of Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
