Council for Multilateral Business Diplomacy

Council for Multilateral Business Diplomacy A responsible voice for business in international affairs

The Council for Multilateral Business Diplomacy provides multinational enterprises with a neutral, multi-stakeholder setting to express views on timely issues and policies affecting and affected by businesses with a global reach. The Council organizes meetings in Geneva and in other European capitals, where still other international organizations make their homes, including Brussels, Paris, Rome and Vienna.

01/10/2014

CMBD Perspectives – The Evolving Dialogue on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation

Catarina de Albuquerque wraps up her role as Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation

CMBD Perspectives - A first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14788
01/08/2014

CMBD Perspectives - A first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14788

The Obama Administration has announced the first ever US-Africa Leaders Summit, to be held in Washington, DC from 4 to 6 August.

CMBD Perspectives – Revising Goals for Poverty and Employment in the 2015 Development Agenda http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14749
01/08/2014

CMBD Perspectives – Revising Goals for Poverty and Employment in the 2015 Development Agenda http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14749

The general thrust of the Open Working Group's revised Zero Draft on the sustainable development goals is to streamline some of the language in the goals and targets and to reduce the overall number of targets. In the case of the primary goal of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere, the stream…

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14674
20/07/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14674

The Role of Business and Finance in Supporting the Post-2015 Agenda is a report issued on 2 July 2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14613
20/07/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14613

The Open Working Group (OWG) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is completing its series of consultations with a final session on 14 to 18 July 2014 – its 13th session.

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14458
08/07/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14458

Many observers of this last 26th session of the Human Rights Council have remarked about how divided the Council’s membership has become, voting in blocs and exacerbating the North-South divide in its deliberations.

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14413
04/07/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14413

UNCTAD held its 50th anniversary celebrations, including a special session with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a public symposium

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14387
04/07/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14387

The week of events for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was a combination of excellent cultural events, reflections on the 50-year history and solid policy discussions. We highlight here a couple of those policy discussions – not really a summa…

26/06/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14251

During the WSIS+10 events on 10 to 13 June 2014, with 2,000 plus delegates, there were several sessions to discuss the role of information and communications technology in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. We learned that many in the ICT community are concerned about a lack of linkages between the O…

20/06/2014

http://www.cmbd.ch/?p=14108

Almost all of the Geneva-based international organizations are developing their issue-specific priorities and building the case for the centrality of their particular issue in the post-2015 Development Agenda – employment and decent work for the ILO, health for the WHO, trade for the WTO and UNCTAD,…

CMBD Perspectives - Gary Shapiro on the Internet and the First Amendment
18/06/2014

CMBD Perspectives - Gary Shapiro on the Internet and the First Amendment

On Wednesday 4 June, the Brookings Institute hosted Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro to talk about privacy, internet governance and freedom of expression. He started off by mentioning that it has been 25 years since the brutal events of Tiananmen Square in 1989 when hu…

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