2nd december de 2011
UBUNTU Forum activities in the context of the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development (6th to 8th of December 2011)
- 7th December UBUNTU and ITUC Side-event
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The role of the innovative financing for development and its implications on economic governance
UN NLB Conference Room 4
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- 6th December Civil Society Forum (UNHQ Conference Room C ( 3 - 6 pm)
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 | The vision of FfD endorsed in the Monterrey Consensus 10 years ago is a long way from becoming reality. And recent events -from the global financial crisis of 2008-9 to the ongoing democratic uprisings in the Arab World- show that the current international economic system does not support equitable development and sustainable growth.
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04 November 2011 - Directors of 64 organisations (36 Southern and 28 Northern) from 33 countries (21 Southern and 12 Northern) sent a letter on behalf of the Beyond 2015 campaign to the UN Secretary General on 19 October 2011.
The aim of the letter was to share with the UNSG a number of recommendations and action points that would maximise the chances of a UN-led post-2015 (deadline to achieve the MDG's) agreement meeting the Beyond 2015 "essential must-haves" of leadership, substance, accountability and legitimacy.
The UBUNTU Forum as member of the platform has also joined and signed this letter that you can check here.
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25 October 2011
Proposal of an International Treaty on Financial Transactions Tax
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On 21st of October it was hold in Paris, in the context of the French Presidency to the G20, a Conference on Development "G20 Development Conference: solutions for a new world". One of its workshops was dedicated to Innovative Financing for Development, reason why the UBUNTU Forum assisted to the conference.
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20 September 2011
Side Event Ubuntu:
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The UBUNTU Forum organized on last September the 22nd a side-event in parallel to the opening of a new period of sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The event had the collaboration of the Global Policy Forum, the Center of Concern, Stamp Out Poverty and the UN-NGLS, about the topic of the implementation of some kind of financial transaction tax for financing for development
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06 September 2011
"Taxing financial transactions for a fairer world : here and now."
Paris, 14 September 2011
Taxing financial transactions
for a fairer world : here and now
Wednesday September 14th 2011
9.00am - 12.30pm
Room 4, UNESCO
7 Place de Fontenoy, 75015 Paris
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01 August 2011 - Beyond 2015 is an international campaign which brings together more than 150 organizations in over 50 countries and where the UBUNTU Forum participates. Its main aim is to kick-start and accelerate the post-2015 process, deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. One of its first initiatives has been writing to the UN Secretary General to urge him to "encourage the United Nations General Assembly to begin working in 2011 on establishing a process to develop a development agenda for beyond 2015" and to offer their support in this initiative. You can check the letter and the campaign here.
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07 July 2011 - One of the outcomes of the Conference on the World Financial and Economical Crisis and its impact on Development, which was held in the UN in 2009, was the creation of a Panel of Experts on economical and financial issues within the UN.
Several civil society organizations are asking its discussion and implementation during the next ECOSOC meeting this July. You can check the petition here.
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23 June 2011
Global Economic Governance, Global Inequality and the Role of the United Nations
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The United Nations General Assembly's President, the Swiss Mr. Joseph Deiss, has organized during 2010 and 2011 several thematic debates around different issues. Next Tuesday 28th of June is going to be celebrated the debate around "Global Governance". In this background, and due to the importance of this issue for the UBUNTU Forum, we are going to co-organize jointly with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung a side-event titled "Global Economic Governance, Global Inequality and the Role of the United Nations". You can check the programme here.
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12 May 2011
Task Force on Financial Integrity
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The Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development is a global coaliton of civil society organizatons and more than 50 governments working together to achieve greater transparency in the global financial system for the benefit of developing countries. Since May the UBUNTU Forum is part of it as Allied Member in order to contribute to the reforms towards a new worls governance, particularly in economical and financial issues. |
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15 April 2011
Over 1,000 economists ask the G20 for the application of a tax on international financial transactions
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Over 1,000 economists from many of the world's leading universities ask in a letter addressed to the ministers of finances of the G20, gathering in Washington on April 14 and 15, the definitive implementation of a tax on International Financial Transactions.
This proposal, defended by the UBUNTU Forum and a number of civil society organizations for a long time, would raise thousands of millions of Euros to reduce inequalities, fight poverty and the climate change, among other priorities.
The technical feasibility of the tax (of about 0'05%) has already been proved, thus political will is the only missing element for the application of the proposal, which responds to a fair and imperative need.
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23 February 2011 - Several NGo's involved in the Financing for Development (FfD) process within the United Nations have sent a letter to the Bretton Woods Institutions (the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) requesting them its real engagement with the FfD process within the UN system and, mainly, in the ECOSOC Spring Meetings to be held with them, the World Trade Organizations and the UNCTAD, that wants to be shortened to just one day instead of two. Check the requests sent to the WB and the IMF.
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15 February 2011
Robin Hood Tax. Global Day of Action
http://robinhoodtax.org.uk/
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12 February 2011
February 2011 - World Social Forum, Dakar
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3 February 2011
The UBUNTU Forum at the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar
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From February 6 to 11 a new edition of the World Social Forum will take place in Dakar (Senegal).
Having participated in the World Social Forum process since its birth, the UBUNTU Forum will be in Dakar to participate in several activities
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22 November 2010 - From November 29 until December 10 another Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place in Cancun (Mexico). This meeting, subsequent to last December's failure in Copenhagen, should produce the relay to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. There are not high perspectives of success, due to the different interests that exist, but civil society keeps a strong pressure in order to obtain an ambitious, fair and legally binding agreement. For further information and daily coverage you can check the IPS, Third World Network or IISD websites.
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21 September 2010, New York
"Innovative financing for the MDGS: a precondition for success"
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17 September 2010
UBUNTU Statement - An imperative and fair need: It's time to implement an international currency transaction tax!! 
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16 July 2010
International expert group confirms Tobin Tax feasibility and recommends its implementation
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On July 16th a group of experts drawn from the academia1 and the financial sector2 have confirmed the feasibility of taxing financial transactions, with a view to financing international commitments made to developing countries. The experts handed a detailed feasibility study to a group of 12 governments, who had commissioned the report in November 2009. These governments - Germany, the UK, Japan, France, Belgium, Norway, Senegal, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Korea and Chile - are part of the International Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development, comprised of 55 countries, as well as international and civil society organizations. The UBUNTU Forum is member of the Leading Group since 2006.
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13 July 2010 - The Fundación Cultura de Paz, chaired by Federico Mayor, has elaborated a communiqué "En tiempos de crisis soluciones para la gente", which you can check and adhere here.
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12 July 2010 - Last July 2nd the United Nations, in an historical decision, adopted the resolution GA/10959 of the General Assembly, by which a new body for the empowerment of women and gender equality is created. This new body (UN Women) strengthens and merges the prior four organisms in order to give coherence to all gender issues.
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21 June 2010
In memoriam: José Saramago
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The UBUNTU Forum wishes to express its deep sadness due to Jose Saramago's death. Prestigious writer, Nobel Prize Laureate, a deeply committed person, he has honored us with his support and collaboration. We send our support to the family and friends of this genius of the literature. |
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17 June 2010 - Last June 10th and 11th the seminar 'Taxation on financial flows for a better world' was held in Brasilia organized by IPEA. The meeting was attended by international experts, state representatives, and by members of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development. They discussed the viability and feasibility of a Financial Transaction Tax, as well as the need of political mobilization in order to tackle the development crisis and the financing needs related to it. You can find more information about this seminar as well as the e-version of a book that compiles several related documents in the IPEA's web.
These are proposals that the UBUNTU Forum and its members have defended for a long time, and that are more necessary than ever given the international context we live in.
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04 June 2010 - On the 5th of June the World Environment Day is celebrated. In a year where climate change negotiations will led to the COP16, this 2010 in Mexico DF, and after Copenhagen's failure, the main claim made by civil society, and supported by the UBUNTU Forum, is still a "Fair, ambitious and binding" deal, where what is known as "climate financing" gets into the core of the climate agenda!!
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17 May 2010
An imperative and fair need
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14 April 2010 - We highlight that the European Parliament passed a resolution on the 25th of March about The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation.
UBUNTU considers it is an important step, since the European Parliament requests:
- an international levy on financial transactions to generate additional resources for financing development and global public goods, and urges the European Commission to present a communication related to it (para.30,31));
- a strict regulation of tax havens due to its negative impact on developing countries (para.60,61,62);
- and the reform of international development cooperation and of world economic governance (para.8,22).
You can download the resolution in PDF, or check it here!!
This resolution is based in a report presented on last 9th of March, from which the MEP Enrique Guerrero was the rapporteur, which you can check here!!
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17 March 2010
Highlight: Robin Hood Tax Campaign
The "Robin Hood Tax Campaign" has made this video to show that the time to tax speculative banking transactions is right. Watch it! For further information on the Campaign, check its website: http://robinhoodtax.org.uk/
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10 December 2009 - The 15th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is taking place in Copenhagen from December 7th to 18th. It should result in an agreement that renews the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Developing countries and civil society organizations demand a binding, fair and ambitious agreement. Based in these principles the Tck Tck Tck campaign has collected 10 million signatures. Check its website!!
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19 November 2009 - Before the celebration of the World Summit on Food Security this week in Rome, it was held the Civil Society Parallel Forum. There it was denounced the deep injusticies that poor countries are facing related to food, and the lack of political will by leaders to assume the commitments to eradicate world hunger, which in 2009 has affected more than one thousand million people, and to guarantee food security to population. Check the final declaration!!
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11 November 2009 - The UBUNTU Forum Secretariat has elaborated a report on the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group Annual Meetings, held in Istanbul. Check it here!!
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30 October 2009
Disarmament, at last
Our conviction that the time has come for an in-depth Reform of the System of International Institutions, so long demanded by many world forums, to begin to lay the foundation for a world democratic governance which, among many other things, would prevent the world having to experience another situation like this one. In any case, the ongoing world regionalisation processes should be considered amongst the new principles upon which the system must be refounded.
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