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.
Connected Risks, Connected Solutions: stepping up the challenge
What kind of governance is needed to efficiently handle the greatest challenges our planet is facing? This is the fundamental question which spurred on the report, “Connected Risks, Connected Solutions”, which launches tomorrow, 18 November, at a seminar in Stockholm.
Global Disorders: A New Global Order?
Issue 62 of Development Dialogue juxtaposes good practices and positive change on the ground with explorations of life-threatening global disorders.
Helen Clark asks: The Future We Want – Can We Make it a Reality?
Helen Clark, Head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and former New Zealand Prime Minister, delivered the 2014 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture, the 16th honoree to do so since the lecture series was instituted two decades ago. Calling upon the lecture’s namesake, she invoked Dag Hammarskjöld saying that he not only belongs to Sweden, but belongs to the world as one of the last century’s greatest Statesman.
Hidden Money, Hidden Resources: Financing Development with Transparency
From 13-16 October in Lima, Peru, “Hidden Money, Hidden Resources: Financing Development with Transparency” was co-convened by the Financial Transparency Coalition and the Red Latinoamericana sobre Deuda, Desarollo y Derechos (Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights), or Latindadd. Constructed as a two-day conference bookended by a smaller orientation and strategy session for journalists […]