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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Wolfgang Obenland</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfgangobenland@globalpolicy.org">wolfgangobenland@globalpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:56 AM<br>Subject: Civil society groups reclaim policies for the public<br>To: Sustainable Development Announcement List <<a href="mailto:sdg@lists.iisd.ca">sdg@lists.iisd.ca</a>><br><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="1024" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h4><br>
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<h1><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#ba0087">Civil society groups reclaim policies
for the public</font></h1>
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#004e76">Global report assesses how privatization
and corporate capture have become obstacles to progress
under the 2030 Agenda</font></h2>
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<p><b><a href="https://www.2030spotlight.org/" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="cid:part1.05487BBE.D41C5BC6@globalpolicy.org" hspace="10" width="300" border="1" vspace="10" align="right" height="404"></a><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">New York, 10 July 2017:</font></b><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> A global coalition
of civil society organizations and trade unions presents
today the report Spotlight on Sustainable Development
2017. It is published on the opening day of the High
Level Political Forum at the United Nations in New York.
The report provides the most comprehensive independent
assessment of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and
its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>For
more, see <a href="https://www.2030spotlight.org/" target="_blank">www.2030spotlight.org</a></b><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The editing
team of the Spotlight Report states:</font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i>“In the
2030 Agenda governments committed to a revitalized
Global Partnership between States and declared that
public finance has to play a vital role in achieving
the SDGs. But in recent decades, the combination of
neoliberal ideology, corporate lobbying, regressive
fiscal policies, tax avoidance and tax evasion has
led to a massive weakening of the public sector and
its ability to provide essential goods and services.
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i>“The same
corporatized strategies and fiscal and regulatory
policies that led to this weakening have enabled an
unprecedented accumulation of individual wealth and
increasing market concentration. </i><i><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i>"The
proponents of privatization and public-private
partnerships (PPPs) use these trends to present the
private sector as the most efficient way to provide
the necessary means for implementing the SDGs. But
many studies and experiences by affected communities
have shown that privatization and PPPs involve
disproportionate risks and costs for people and the
public purse. PPPs can even exacerbate inequalities,
decrease equitable access to essential services and
jeopardize the fulfilment of human rights. </i><i><br>
</i></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i>“Therefore,
it is high time to counter these trends, reclaim
public policy space and take bold measures to
strengthen public finance, regulate or reject PPPs
and weaken the grip of corporate power on people’s
lives. In short, to put ‘people over profit’. These
are indispensable prerequisites to achieve the SDGs
and to turn the vision of the transformation of our
world, as proclaimed in the title of the 2030
Agenda, into reality.”</i></font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The 160-page
report is supported by a broad range of civil society
organizations and trade unions, and based on experiences
and reports by national and regional groups and
coalitions from all parts of the world. Its 35 articles
and textboxes cover all sectors of the 2030 Agenda and
the SDGs, and reflect the rich geographic and cultural
diversity of their authors. </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Spotlight
Report is published by the Arab NGO Network for
Development (ANND), the Center for Economic and Social
Rights (CESR), Development Alternatives with Women for a
New Era (DAWN), Global Policy Forum (GPF), Public
Services International (PSI), Social Watch, Society for
International Development (SID), and Third World Network
(TWN), supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.</font></p>
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<h4><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#004e76">Spotlight on Sustainable Development
2017</font></h4>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#ba0087">Reclaiming policies for the public.
Privatization, partnerships, corporate capture and their
impact on sustainability and inequality - assessments
and alternatives. </font></h3>
<h4><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#004e76">Report of the Reflection Group on the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.</font></h4>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Beirut/Bonn/Ferney-Voltaire/<wbr>Montevideo/New
York/Penang/Rome/Suva, July 2017</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.2030spotlight.org" target="_blank">www.2030spotlight.org</a> </b>
<b>#SpotlightSDGs</b></font></p>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#004e76">Contact in New York</font></h3>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Barbara
Adams, Global Policy Forum (GPF): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:barbaraadams@globalpolicy.org" target="_blank">barbaraadams@globalpolicy.org</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Jens
Martens, Global Policy Forum (GPF): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jensmartens@globnalpolicy.org" target="_blank">jensmartens@globnalpolicy.org</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Chee Yoke
Ling, Third World Network (TWN): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yokeling@twnetwork.org" target="_blank">yokeling@twnetwork.org</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">María
Graciela Cuervo, Development Alternatives with Women
for a New Era (DAWN): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mgcuervo.dawn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mgcuervo.dawn@gmail.com</a></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Kate Donald,
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kdonald@cesr.org" target="_blank">kdonald@cesr.org</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Roberto
Bissio, Social Watch: <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rbissio@item.org.uy" target="_blank">rbissio@item.org.uy</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sandra
Vermuyten, Public Services International (PSI): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sandra.vermuyten@world-psi.org" target="_blank">sandra.vermuyten@world-psi.org</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Stefano
Prato, Society for International Development (SID): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stefanop@sidint.org" target="_blank">stefanop@sidint.org</a>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ziad Abdel
Samad, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND): <a class="m_483757896343279626moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ziadas@gmail.com" target="_blank">ziadas@gmail.com</a></font></li>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#004e76">Contributing partners of the Spotlight
Report 2017</font></h3>
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