Issue 34: Is Civil Society participation in the negotiations “too DEI” for Member States?

The FfD Chronicle is puzzled that an issue as important as the assurance of transparency and inclusion of this process has remained in the drawers of the Chairs, Vice-Chairs and Bureau of the 4th International Conference on FfD for too long. We are already halfway through the Third Preparatory Committee Session (3rd PrepCom), and there is an understated assumption that it is okay to undermine civic space as long as everyone pretends that some enforced technicalities fell from the sky, with no one being truly responsible for such regression.