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Global Perspectives Initiative Blog
This blog is a growing collection of contributions and commentaries on matters that are important to us. They don’t always tie to our work, but to that of our partners and of politics in general, too. Our blog is our attempt to engage more and better into public debate.
Jeff Kabondo: „With corruption, sustainable development is in far reach.“
In order to better understand the impact of corruption on sustainable development in Africa, GPI spoke to Jeff Kabondo, a renowned anti-corruption activist from Malawi. With more than 15 years’ experience in good governance and anti-corruption work across Africa, he is the Executive Director of Malawi’s National Integrity Platform, the country’s leading civil society organisation combating corruption.
Nadia Murad: “Help me save lives and rebuild communities in crisis”
Nadia Murad has long been known as the face and voice of the Yezidi. For three years, she has been advocating for Yezidi justice in international fora and through meetings with world leaders. She constantly calls for international action against ISIS and urged for the crimes against the Yazidi to be officially recognised as genocide. Her Initiative is dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis, advocating for victims of sexual violence and ultimately engaging for a world free from genocide and crimes against humanity. The Initiative encourages world leaders to act and stresses that “words without action inflict the same harm and suffering as the perpetrators of mass atrocities and sexual violence”.
Women, Peace and Security – GPI at United Nations Security Council Meeting
Side Event at the 63. Commission on the Status of Women Meeting in New York City
2019 marks the year when Germany is once again occupying a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council and in April takes the presidency. Together with France, they picked “Woman, Peace and Security” as their focus topic. Against this background, Germany and France organized an Open Arria Meeting in New York looking at the inequalities between women and men in political processes, war, and conflict. As a civil society partner to the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations and its ambassador Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Global Perspectives was invited to accompany the conference at the UN.
Global Health
Moral obligation must go beyond economic necessity
By hosting the World Health Summit and the Grand Challenges Annual Meetings of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in October 2018, Berlin increasingly assumes leadership in the area of global health. By doing so, the city dedicates efforts to a commitment supported by several international decision makers from politics, economics and civil society. In this context, Global Perspectives Initiative (GPI) met with several international players to discuss Germany’s role in global health.
Nobel Peace Prize 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad
The Global Perspectives Initiative congratulates Congolese gynecologist Dr. Denis Mukwege on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 2018. The human rights activist is specialized in the treatment of victims of sexual violence and has been advocating for women affected by sexual violence as a practicing physician for years.
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