HIV in the III FfD Hearings with Civil Society

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UNAIDS PCB NGO Delegation

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Apr 6, 2015, 11:48:44 PM4/6/15

to PCB Info Outreach, Alessandra Nilo, alessan...@gestos.org, Mehrdad Pourzaki

April 6^th, 2015

For immediate release:

UN Headquarters, New York – On April 8^th and 9^th there will take place in the Trusteeship Council two sessions of interactive hearings with civil society and representatives of the private sector with the permanent state-member missions at the United Nations. The sessions will open and close with a statement from the UN Secretary General and the President of the General Assembly.

The hearings will happen in the eve of the second drafting session, to take place in the week of April 13^th, in preparation for the third International Conference on Financial for Development to occur in Addis Ababa (13–16 July.)

The economist and policy adviser of Gestos- HIV, Communication and Gender Claudio Fernandes, will represent Gestos, the TTF campaign in Brazil, and Abong speaking in the Roundtable 2, where there will be a debate on innovative sources of financing development beyond the insufficient source from ODA and other philanthropic disbursement. His delivery will focus on multi-jurisdictional financial transactions taxes to finance human and enviornmental development, particularly pressing issues such as the end of AIDS, and promoting gender equality.

The United Nations are negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals Declaration – most likely in September a ‘political declaration’ with 17 goals and 169 targets will be approved –, while conducting the procedures toward the finance for development Accord. In the first track of negotiations it prepares to discuss the means of implementation of the whole post-2105 agenda, whereas at the Conference it looks for an agreement on the principles of the financial drive for development that can rescue the world from poverty, social distress, and environmental calamity. Not a small task, though it does present the possibility of raising above words. We are living a very important moment of world class international politics, debating on possibilities for encouraging a different direction for the way business is usually done, trying and focusing on finding solutions for the unsurmountable array of social and environmental issues the world over witnesses every day and night. It is not a question of reaching and agreement that would change reality by decree, but the point of raising the issues and exercizing the task of showing governments the need to a shift in the paradigm of investing public resources without depleting the environment or expropriating people’s lives along the way.

The third Conference on Finance for Development is the global finance framework started with the Monterrey Consensus, in 2002, and followed-up with the Doha Declaration, 2009, that tries and collects a set of agreeable practices for financing responsible development, focused on eradicating poverty, promoting gender equality, investing in health and education, and promoting environmentaly sound initiatives.

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For more information go to www.un.org/esa/ffd/

Claudio Fernandes- cla...@gestos.org

Phone: 55.81.99219691

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Alessandra Nilo
Coordenadora Gestos-HIV, Comunicação e Gênero
Coordenadora da ABONG em Pernambuco
Secretária Regional da LACCASO - ALC

        gestos.org/abong.org.br/laccaso.net

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The NGO Delegation

to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board

Communications and Consultation Facility