EVENT
Video - Webinar to Update about the 4 Global Summits in 2025 (23 June 2025)
Webinar to Update about the 4 Global Summits in 2025
Date: Monday, 23 June 2025
Time:
9 AM (Ottawa, NY) GMT-3
3 PM (South Africa, CET) GMT+2
8 PM (Bangkok) GMT+7
10 PM (Japan, Korea) GMT+9
Moderator:
Aoi Horiuchi, JANIC, Summit Watch Japan / Co-convener of Global Summit Watch
Welcome remark:
Henrique Frota, ABONG, Brazil / Co-convener of Global Summit Watch
Opening speech:
Anselmo Lee, APSD, South Korea / Co-convener of Global Summit Watch
Speakers:
-G7 Summit (June 15-17, Kananaskis, Canada)
Paul Farran, Cooperation Canada, C7 Chair
Darron Seller-Peritz, Cooperation Canada, C7 Sherpa
-G20 Summit (Nov. 22-23, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Isobel Frye, Oxfam South Africa
-UN 2nd Social Summit (Nov. 4-6, Doha, Qatar)
Ishaan Shah, Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN)
-BRICS Summit (July 6-7, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Wang Xiangyi, CANGO, China
Nelya Rakhimova, The Coalition for the Sustainable Development of Russia (CSDR)
Organized by Global Summit Watch
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Y9InVYbuQseLRTNMZqNobA#/registration
Introduction
Global Summit (GS) Watch is a global network of individuals and organisations committed to monitoring and advocating for global justice and accountability at global summits such as the Summit of the South, G7, BRICS, G20 and the UN Summit. It has replaced the PEOPLES’ 20, which was formed in March 2023 among independent civil society organisations to engage with the 2023 G20 Summit in India.
GS Watch aims to support and facilitate communication and collaboration among CSOs and stakeholders engaged in the global summits to increase the synergy and impact of their advocacy.
The main activities of GS Watch are consultation and update (webinar and forum), information and knowledge sharing (Info Pack, compilation and newsletter), analysis (briefing paper) and capacity building training programme.
The governance of GS Watch consists of Co-Conveners and International Advisors and the Secretariat.
The LDC Watch in Nepal will function as the secretariat for 2025.
List of the Co-conveners and International Advisers
-Co-conveners (4 in total as of June 2025)
1.Anselmo Lee, Asia Civil Society Partnership for Sustainable Development/SDGs (APSD), South Korea
2.Aoi Horiuchi, Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC), Japan
3.Arjun Karki, Least Developed Countries (LDC) Watch, Nepal
4.Henrique Frota, ABONG, Brazil
-International Advisers (23 in total as of June 2025)
G7 Countries and European Union (EU)
1.Paul Farran, Cooperation Canada
2.Gabriele Koehler, External Adviser to the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Germany
3.Ingo Ritz, Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), Germany
4.Eva Hanfstaengl, Social Development Justice, Germany
5.Hideki Wakabayashi, Think Lobby, Japan
6.Masaki Inaba, Africa Japan Forum / Japan CSO Network for Global Health
7.Jeffrey Huffines, Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN), USA
8.Sam Worthington, Former President Inter-Action, USA
BRICS+
9.Juliana Cesar, GESTO, Brazil
10.Annie Namala, WNTA, GCAP India
11.Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS-World Alliance for Citizen Participation, India/New York
12.Meena Menon, Working People’s Coalition (WPC), India
13.Vidya Dinker, Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), India
14.Nelya Rakhimova, Russian SDGs Forum, Russia/Berlin
MIKTA + Argentina
15.Alejandra Gutierrez, My World Mexico, Mexico
16.Jungok LEE, Korea, Women and Gender Justice
Africa Union (AU)
17.Brenda Mofya, Oxfam International – Presentative to the UN in New York
18.Richard Ssewakiryanga, CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), Uganda
19.Paul Okumu, African Platform, Keyna
Non-G20 Countries – Asia-Pacific, Middle East and LAC
20.Corazon Valdez-Fabros, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Philippines
21.Nalini Rathnarajah, South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Sri Lanka
22.William Gois, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Pakistan/Philippines
23.Wanun Permpibul, Climate Watch Thailand