From Vision to Transformation – A debate on implementation of the new Global Goals for Sustainable Development
Following the UN Secretary-General’s synthesis report ‘The Road to Dignity: Ending poverty, transforming all lives and protecting the planet’, the official intergovernmental negotiations on the new development agenda have now started. These will hopefully culminate in the adoption of new global goals for sustainable development by the UN General Assembly in September.
Henrik Hammargren appointed new Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Henrik Hammargren as its new Executive Director. Hammargren comes to the Foundation with extensive experience from international development cooperation, having worked as a director at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and as an advisor at the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). Hammargren replaces Annika Söder who was appointed State Secretary for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sweden in October.
Civil society consultations on UN Peace Reviews
Both the UN’s peace operations and the UN’s peacebuilding architecture are undergoing extensive reviews in 2015, which are expected to shape how the UN in the future will operate in these areas.
Regions Refocus 2015 Launches at Ford Foundation in New York
On Monday, 26 January, Regions Refocus 2015 – a new initiative housed at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation – was officially launched at an all-day event at the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New York City.
Editorial for WHO on a legal framework to address antimicrobial resistance
Our future health depends on forming an international legal framework that resolves – or at least substantially reduces – the problem of antimicrobial resistance.
An editorial for World Health Organization’s Bulletin has been published on the issue of the need for a new legal framework in order to address antimicrobial resistance. Dag Hammarskjöld’s Acting Director Fiona Rotberg is one of the authors. The others are: Steven J Hoffman, Kevin Outterson, John-Arne Røttingen, Otto Cars, Charles Clift, Zain Rizvi, Göran Tomsonh and Anna Zorzet.
Regions Refocus
Regions Refocus is an initiative that fosters progressive, feminist solidarities for justice through policy dialogue within and across regions.
Season’s Greeting and Happy New Year
Many thanks to all our partners, friends and supporters for making 2014 such a good and productive year!
New project: the Integrity of the International Civil Servant
Dag Hammarskjöld shaped many of the fundamental principles and practices of international organisations, among those the ethics of the international civil servant, with impartiality and neutrality at its heart.
Tackling antimicrobial resistance: looking towards legal mechanisms
The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) over the past decade has been described as one of the major health threats of the 21st century.
Civil society’s perspectives in UN renewal
This month the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation hosted a civil society roundtable in Geneva to discuss and debate the future positioning of the United Nations Development System (UNDS) in a post-2015 world.