In its role as president of the Group of 20 (G20) in 2019, Japan embraced an opportunity to provide strategic leadership in the premier forum for global economic governance. Japan’s presidency comes at a time when multilateralism is in crisis, as is evident in the intensification of trade and geopolitical tensions, the stalled World Trade Organisation (WTO) reform process, the growing backlash over the failure of globalisation to realise equitable distributional benefits... Download full report...

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Africa, Institute for Global Dialogue and the University of Pretoria cordially invite you to take part in Round Table Discussion in the Run-Up to the Russia-Africa Summit on 16 October 2019 at the Library Auditorium, Merensky Library, University of Pretoria, Hatfield Campus.

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The Second High-level United Nations Conference on South–South Cooperation (known also as the BAPA+40 conference), held in March 2019, promised to reinvigorate efforts to further achieve and implement South–South cooperation (SSC). Forty years on, the Global South is shaping its image as a solutions provider. Immense strides have been made in improving access to allow a multitude of state and non-state actors to cooperate...

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The Second United Nations (UN) Conference on South–South Cooperation, otherwise known as BAPA+40, was hosted by Argentina from 20 to 22 March 2019. The conference marked the 40th anniversary of the ground-breaking UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries that was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978....

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One of the major series of events in South Africa in 2018 was the commemoration of the centennial of Nelson Mandela’s birth. At the peak of the event, former US president Barack Obama delivered the sixteenth annual Nelson Mandela lecture on 17 July, 2018. Thousands of South Africans braved the July chill in Johannesburg to listen to the then much-anticipated speech. Millions more around the world tuned in placing the commemoration...

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The 2019 Japanese Presidency of the G20 has added demographics, population ageing in particular, to the list of global risks for discussion. The G20 timing could not be more pertinent: 2018 marked the first time in history that persons aged over 64 out-number children under-five; some 85% of global GDP now generated in countries that are home to newly rapidly ageing populations.

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