From miracle drug to global threat
10-12 June 2014 we, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, together with ReAct – Action on antibiotic resistance – and in collaboration with the Division of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, gathered some of the world’s leading experts from many sectors such as industry, agriculture, health, civil society, governments and researchers to discuss how to tackle antibiotic resistance and how to move a coordinated global agenda forward.
Webinar: Addressing measurement challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations DESA/DSD and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation invite you to a webinar on the topic of Addressing measurement challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals June 4 10.00-11.30 (EDT, GMT-4) with Dr. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah
So rich, yet so poor
Margot Wallström, former UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Saidou Arji from ‘Publish What You Pay’ spoke about Natural Resources in the context of the post-2015 agenda.
Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency
Presentation of the book: Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency (Cambridge University Press 2014)
Core elements of reform for the UN development system
The Permanent Missions of Sweden, Viet Nam and Ethiopia to the United Nations and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation invites all Permanent Missions and Permanent Observers and UN staff to a discussion about ‘Core elements of reform for the UN development system’.
Briefing about UN development system renewal
On the 9th of May the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation invited member states and staff from FAO, WFP and IFAD to a briefing about UN development system renewal.
Post-2015 and the Poison Threads – Shift the Gaze
In this paper Amitabh Behar talks about the ‘golden threads’ of global development versus the ‘poison threads‘, the latter according to Behar are the real causes of endemic poverty, growing inequality and exclusion. ‘The global leadership and the UN face the sizable challenge of making a historic choice between continuing the legacy and hegemony of […]
Universal goals and targets for post-2015
As we are quickly approaching 2015 – the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals – and the formulation of the new set of development goals, debates of what targets and indicators to include are multifold. This event was held in swedish. Here is a summary in English.
Renewing UN Development
This paper argues that if true multilateralism in the global socio-economic arena is to be saved, there needs to be a radical re-think of what the UN delivers to its increasingly heterogeneous group of member states in the development field. The fundamental challenge for the UN development system is to reposition itself so that it […]
The youth bulge in a graying world – a demographic challenge?
Today, half of the world’s population is under 25 years of age, while 11% of the world’s population is aged 60 and over. The share of young and elderly will rise significantly by 2030, when the world’s population is estimated to reach 8 billion.