Increasing Gains for Women, Not Just the Economy: The UK Gender and Development Network Submission to the World Bank Gender Strategy Consultation

Daphne Jayasinghe Earlier this year the World Bank Group (WBG) launched the concept note for its new gender strategy, ‘Promoting Gender Equality to Reduce Poverty and Boost Shared Prosperity.’ It was developed to launch and inform the global consultation which…

UN post-MDG 2015 negotiations lack understanding of women’s human rights and needed economic conditions

States are discussing in several rounds and processes new goals for the development policies, PostMDG2015, accross the globe that will replace the Millennium Development Goals that end this year. Governments held a second round of "Substantive" informal Sessions within the UN in…

People’s Tribunal on EU Economic Governance and the Troika

The EU and the crisis: from austerity to solidarity: the verdict of the other voices and a call for another Europe Brussels – A Tribunal on EU economic governance and the Troika took place in Brussels on 15-16 May. Eleven…