Reforming the financial system

PR: “Aid to the private sector: promoting responsible investments? Latin American as a testing ground”

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:02

On the 21st of March 2013, the alliance of civil society organisations including ALOP, CIDSE, CIFCA, COUNTER BALANCE, EURODAD, GRUPO SUR, and OIDHACO, organised an event at the European Parliament called “Aid to the private sector: promoting responsible investments? Latin American as a testing ground”.

Reforming finance: The human rights crisis continues

Wednesday, 09 January 2013 08:08

It is time to recognize that failure to approach financial regulation from a value-based perspective can provide only illusory and short-lived gains,

Why EU bank reform matters for overseas development

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 11:31

If the European Commission fails to adjust how the EU's banking sector functions, the world's poorest will come under additional strain.

Linking trade and financial policies

Friday, 16 March 2012 13:19

In the run-up to the coming quadrennial conference of UNCTAD, Aldo Caliari of CIDSE's US member Center of Concern was one of the speakers at a Hearing with Civil society being held on March 7, 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Highlights

Report: CIDSE at the WSF 2013

That was it! The last of our CIDSE-events at the World Social Forum in Tunis, 2013, is over! Thank you to everyone who attended throughout these three days, and especially for those who joined our Open Forum on the Tax Justice Agenda today, which we co-organised with Tax Justice Network – Africa and a bunch of other organisations.

Written by - Written on Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Report: CIDSE at WSF 2013, day 3

What a busy day! Today we have finally started to learn the layout of the WSF area, the campus of the El Manar University, apparently the best in the country! The area is huge, about one kilometre across. We spend lots of time hiking from one location to the next, and are grateful for the light cloud cover...

Written by - Written on Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Report: CIDSE Workshop at WSF 2013: Which investment for the right to food?

Brussels: 1 degree C. Tunis: 21 degrees and rising. Perfect. After an amazing opening march of the World Social Forum yesterday, meetings with friends and allies from across the globe, and settling in at the Campus El-Manar in Tunisia, the CIDSE delegation today held our first workshop under the title Which investment for the right to food?

Written by - Written on Tuesday, 26 March 2013