The Doha Financing for Development Review Conference, held in 2008 recognized the importance of respect for all human rights, including the right to development, in the global partnership for development. A side event co-organized by Center of Concern and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights explores the significance of the human rights and right to development agenda for the Financing for Development process.

An article for the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) examines whether the Doha FFD Conference has made progress on the institutional processes for dealing with sovereign debt.

Now that there is an agreed Outcome to the Doha Review Conference on Financing for Development, a range of civil society organizations have produced their assessments.

In this letter, appeared in the Financial Times edition of November 12, 2008, Aldo Caliari argues that the low level of ambition for the upcoming financial summit of G20 members in Washington DC should not be a surprise. Unless a much more inclusive approach is followed, giving an institutional platform for the voice of all developing countries, it is unrealistic to expect much more.

The day before the United Nations (UN) meets to discuss its new high-level taskforce on the global financial crisis, chaired by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and two weeks before the US hosts members of the Group of 20 to address the same issue, a coalition
of 630 organizations from 104 countries have issued a statement demanding a truly global response to the global crisis and laying out a set of principles for doing so.