Tag: African Union
People-centered globalization: taking the G20 to the last mile, leaving no one behind
And we walk together towards a common future – one future – which is the undeniable truth in these interconnected times. The post-pandemic world order is very different from the world before it. There are, among other things, three important changes. First, there is a growing understanding that a shift from a GDP-centric worldview to…
Germany announces new ‘feminist’ foreign policy
Germany’s center-left government on Wednesday announced new feminist guidelines to shape its diplomacy and development work. This includes the creation of a new role of “feminist foreign policy ambassador”. Germany will lobby to ensure that women’s issues are more in focus globally, that women are better represented and that the country’s generous development funds are…
Support for Ukraine largely limited to Europe, the US and allies
In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries on their attitudes to the West and to Russia and China. The results in the studywhile not free from margin of error, are robust enough to be taken seriously. These…