Meeting the millennium development goals’ targets: Proposed UN global governance framework to confront challenges of the 21st Century.

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Omona
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
Development Goals

Developing International Migration Policy: Russia’s Contribution

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (12) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
M. Pituhina
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right

The article deals both with the international migration policy and the migration global governance. In the 21st century, the role of migration in the international political process is growing increasingly, the migration discourse is being seriously transformed, the migration situation in Northern and Western Europe changes completely. It is obvious that preventive measures are highly necessary to take. The experience of Northern Europe seems to be highly important for both successful practices determination and migration policy regulation in Russia. By September 2015, the Member States of the United Nations will have negotiated a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs). These goals will frame a new international development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire at the end of 2015. Nowadays the International Organization for Migration is trying to integrate the migration subject into the international agenda, and there are three aspects highlighted: fostering partnerships on mobility and development; promotion and protection of migrants’ rights and wellbeing; reduction of human mobility costs. Today, Russia is active at migration global governance as well. It is visible that both the migration subject integration into the global agenda and the Millennium Development Goals revision are highly important for Russia’s authority strengthening on the international stage, in terms of present-day sanctions. This is the right way which reveals new possibilities for Russia as a global actor as well as new perspective for its influence on the international political process. The author also tries to interlink the migration process and the international political process, the international migration policy and the migration global governance. A new term of the international migration policy is introduced.

scholarly journals Staging Sustainability at Expo 2000: Germany’s Panacea for the Crises of Capitalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Sergiu Novac
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
World Exhibition

Abstract This article explores how sustainability was staged in the context of EXPO 2000, the first and only world exhibition organized by Germany. The notion seemed to gain ground around the turn of the millennium in global political and policy circles, especially through such documents as the ‘Agenda 21’ and the ‘Millennium Development Goals’. These were also the main source of inspiration while organizing EXPO 2000, which, under the motto ‘Humankind, Nature, Technology’ claimed to put forward a radically different vision for the 21st century. However, throughout the paper I argue that sustainability ended up performing a quite different ideological function. In Germany, the staging of sustainability took place as an activation of expertize, meant to fix a crisis of the economy and to open up new grounds for capitalism’s search for profit, ultimately deepening the environmental crisis that it was meant to alleviate in the first place.

The Role of Science and Technology in the 21st Century

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cowan Coventry
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Development Goals

While our world is being transformed by rapid developments in ‘new’ technology, nearly one-third of humanity continues to be deprived of the benefits available from technologies centuries old. Northern markets rather than Southern needs increasingly determine what scientific and technological advances are developed and for whom. We urgently need to reclaim science and technology for the public good as well as private gain if we are to meet the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. However, rather than simply applying technologies to poverty, we need to help poor women and men access useful knowledge so that they can choose and use appropriate technologies.

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