A Bigger and More Relevant Role for Youth Within the UN System

A Bigger and More Relevant Role for Youth Within the UN System

Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Inter Press Service So far, initiatives have been fragmented with each agency and programs doing a bit on its own, mostly through symbolic and tokenistic ways. Dr. Felipe Paullier of Uruguay, the recently appointed first Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs, instead,…

A New Local Oversight Structure to Achieve SDGS, Climate Action & Biodiversity Preservation — Global Issues

A New Local Oversight Structure to Achieve SDGS, Climate Action & Biodiversity Preservation — Global Issues

Credit: United Nations Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Friday, September 29, 2023 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 29 (IPS) – The links between Agenda 2030 and SDGs, including climate action and biodiversity preservation are clear and straightforward. Yet, leveraging them, and bringing them to together in a unified framework,…

Reality is Governments Not Truly Held Accountable to Implement SDGs — Global Issues

Reality is Governments Not Truly Held Accountable to Implement SDGs — Global Issues

The SDG Summit gets underway in the General Assembly hall at UN Headquarters in New York. September 2023. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Friday, September 22, 2023 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 22 (IPS) – What does transformative and sweeping really mean in the overarching…

Urgency for a Global Fund for Media & Journalism — Global Issues

Urgency for a Global Fund for Media & Journalism — Global Issues

Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 30 (IPS) – There have been an array of proposals to sustain journalism around the world — from tax incentives and subsidies to the idea of allocating 1% of governments’ GDP to a drastically increased…

Localizing SDGs Means Truly Empowering Citizens — Global Issues

Localizing SDGs Means Truly Empowering Citizens — Global Issues

Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 18 (IPS) – The Future We Want was the groundbreaking outcome of the Rio+20 Summit, the summit, held in 2012, where the idea of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was first conceptualized. Amid the unfolding of…

The Need for a Strong Legal Treaty on Business & Human Rights — Global Issues

The Need for a Strong Legal Treaty on Business & Human Rights — Global Issues

The open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights was established in 2014 in response to Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 with a mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational…

Building Leadership for Teachers in the Developing World — Global Issues

Building Leadership for Teachers in the Developing World — Global Issues

Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 13 (IPS) – If we truly want to re-imagine the role education can play in the decades to come, it is going to be indispensable to take drastic measures to elevate the role of teachers…

A Plea for the Creation of a UN Youth Assembly — Global Issues

A Plea for the Creation of a UN Youth Assembly — Global Issues

Credit: United Nations Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Monday, September 05, 2022 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 05 (IPS) – 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…