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Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Heinrich Boell Foundation UNED
Forum
Commission on Sustainable DevelopmentUN CSD Homepage, at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd.htm Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues, at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/msdialog.htm CSD / Issues Page at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/issueslist.htm CSD (and other) documents, processes, national reports, links, etc. on particular issues ...: Agriculture at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri.htm Biotechnology at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/biot.htm Finance at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/finance.htm Trade & Environment at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/trade.htm Land Management at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/land.htm Forests at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/forests.htm Education at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/edu.htm Freshwater at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/water.htm Indicators at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/isd.htm Poverty at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/poverty.htm Consumption and Production Patterns at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/conprod.htm [UP]CSD NGO List ServersCSDGen, general NGO list server around CSD issues and process. Send an email to owner-csdgen@undp.org to join or visit the CSD NGO Steering Committee web-site at http://www.igc.org/csdngo CSD NGO CaucusesAgriculture safs-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Education education-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Energy energy-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Finance and Trade finance-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Forests forests-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Freshwater freshwater-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Oceans oceans-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Tourism tourism-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Transport transport-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Women women-csd-subscribe@egroups.com Consumption contact: jbarber@econet.org 2002 contact UNED Forum at info@earthsummit2002.org Voluntary Initiatives contact: anped@antenna.nl
WomenWatch
is a joint initiative of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the International
Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). It is
the UN Internet Gateway on the advancement and empowerment of women and
an evolving forum on global women's issues in the follow-up to the Fourth World
Conference on Women (Beijing 1995). The WomenWatch Internet site provides up to
date information on the UN's work on behalf of the women of the world, the
global agenda for improving the status of women and constitutes an electronic
space for exchange of information and ideas on women's issues. Beijing, Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995 http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/ Beijing +5, The Fourth World Conference on Women 5 year Review, 2000 http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/news/review.htm UN DAW: The UN
Division for the Advancement of Women at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw UNIFEM: The United Nations Development Fund for Women at http://www.undp.org/unifem/ promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas. UNIFEM focuses its work at the country level. Playing a strong advocacy role, the Fund concentrates on fostering a multilateral policy dialogue on women's empowerment. INSTRAW: The
United Nations International Research and Training Centre for the Advancement of
Women at http://www.un.org/instraw UNDP Gender in
Development Programme (GIDP): http://www.undp.org/gender CSW: The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw CEDAW: The United Nations Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw United Nations / Gender Page, at
http://www.undp.org/info21/sector/s-gender.html
The United Nations Home
Page at http://www.un.org UN Wire, the daily news summary covering the UN, global affairs and key international issues is now available FREE from the United Nations Foundation's homepage at http://www.unfoundation.org United Nations - Economic and Social Development Web Site United Nations Publications at http://www.un.org/Pubs/sales.htm UN Gateway to Social Policy and Development at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ United Nations Centre for Human Settlements - Habitat at http://www.unhabitat.org/ United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and The Together Foundation at http://www.bestpractices.org/cgi-bin/bp98.cgi?cmd=sponsors#unchs UN High Commission for Human Rights: This website contains the most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Over 250 different language versions are available in HTML, PDF and graphical forms. UN Population Division / Department of Economic and Social Affairs at http://www.undp.org/popin/popin.htm was founded by resolution of the United Nations Economic and Social Council to identify, establish, strengthen and coordinate population information activities at international, regional and national levels; to facilitate and enhance the availability of population information in collaboration with the regional commissions, the specialized agencies and the NGO population community; and to provide a forum for the exchange of experiences among developed and developing countries on population information issues. The website provides an electronic library, a multilingual dictionary, a worldwide directory of population institutions, world population trends and more. UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at http://www.unctad.org/ is a permanent intergovernmental body and the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly in the field of trade and development. It tries to maximize the trade, investment and development opportunities of developing countries, and to help them face challenges arising from globalization and integrate into the world economy, on an equitable basis through research and policy analysis, intergovernmental deliberations, technical cooperation, and interaction with civil society and the business sector. The website provides information on events and meetings, press and references, technical cooperation, a guide to publications and related www sites. The United Nations System at http://www.unsystem.org/ The Urban Environment Forum, a joint initiative of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat ) at http://www.unep.org/unon/unchs/uef/home.htm United Nations International Computing
Center at http://www.unicc.org/ UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, at http://www.unep.org Ozone Meetings for the Year 2000 at http://www.unep.org/ozone/meet2000.htm UNDP, the United Nations Development Programme, at http://www.undp.org UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organisation, at http://www.unesco.org ILO, the International Labour Organisation at http://www.essential.org/orgs/ilo/ WHO, the World Health Organisation, at http://www.who.ch and http://www.who.dk FAO, the Food Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, at http://www.fao.org UNRISD, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, autonomous agency engaging in multi-disciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development; attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect different social groups; working through an extensive network of national research centres; aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in developing countries. UN Summits and Conferences[UP]The Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992 - the documents, at gopher://gopher.un.org/00/conf/unced also: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Collection at http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/unced/unced.html - a set of documents produced by UNCED, also known as the Earth Summit, and various preparatory activities that led to the conference. Agenda 21, outcome of the Earth Summit, at www.uned-uk.org/toolkits/women/un-doku/un-conf/earth ag21.htm Agenda 21, Chapter 24: Women, at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21chapter24.htm or on this site at www.uned-uk.org/toolkits/women/un-doku/un-conf/ag21chap24.htm Earth Summit II, also known as UNGASS (United Nations General Assembly 19th Special Session) or Rio+5, 1997, at gopher://gopher.un.org/00/ga/recs/spec/res-s19.2 The World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 1993, http://www.unchr.ch/html/menu5/d/vienna.htm The World Conference on Human Rights 5 Year Review, 1998, http://www.unchr.ch/html/vdparev.htm The International Conference on Population and Development, ICPD, Cairo, 1994, at http://www.undp.org/popin/icpd2.htm. The site provides documentation about the conference, follow-ups, newsletters, programme for action in different languages, press releases and more. The International Conference on Population and Development 5 year Review, also known as ICPD +5, 1999, http://www.undp.org/popin/icpd5.htm. The site provides official documentation, statements of Governments and NGOs as well as background documentation on the Conference in 1994. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995, at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/ The Fourth World Conference on Women 5 year Review, also known as Beijing +5, 2000, at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/news/review.htm The World Summit for
Social Development (WSSD), Copenhagen, 1995, at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/wssd.htm The World Summit for
Social Development 5 year Review, also known as WSSD+5 or Copenhagen+5,
2000, at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev. The World Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II, Istanbul, 1996, at http://www.unhabitat.org/habitat2/index.html. On this website one can find an introduction to the conference, the Habitat Agenda, Conference documents, newsletters, topic related webpages and more. UN Commissions [UP]CSD, United Nations
Commission on Sustainable Development at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd.htm Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues,
at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/msdialog.htm CSW, the UN Commission on the Status of Women, at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw CSocD, the UN Commission on Social Development, at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/social.htm CHS, the UN Commission Human Settlements, at http://www.unhabitat.org/ CPD, the UN Commission on Population and Development, at http://www.undp.org/popin/unpopcom.htm United Nations Regional Commissions UN ECE, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, at http://www.unece.org UN ESCAP, the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, at http://www.unescap.org UN ECA, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, , at http://www.un.org/debts/eca UN ECLAC, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean, at http://www.eclac.cl UN ESCWA, the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia, at http://www.escwa.org.lb [UP]Other Intergovernmental ForumsOECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-orperation and Development, at http://www.oecd.org/ WTO, the World Trade Organisation, at http://www.wto.org/ The World Bank Group at http://www.worldbank.org/ WORLD BANK'S GENDERNET
World Bank. Gender and Transport
Thematic Group (GTTG) European Commission,
Directorate Generale XI, European Environment Agency
UNED Forum's Stakeholder Toolkit for Women: UN & NGO Documents, networking information, links, document packages on current & upcoming issues, etc.. Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO) at http://www.wedo.org LIFE e.V - women develop eco-techniques WOMEN, INK. at http://www.womenink.org The International Women's Tribunal Centre (IWTC) at http://www.womenink.org/iwtc.html Women's Human Rights Database Group: DIANA at the University of Toronto The European Women's Lobby at http://www.womenlobby.org The Global Fund for Women at http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw OneWorld News Service - Gender Virtual Sisterhood at http://www.igc.apc.org/vsister/vsister.html Women's Feature Service, USA, at http://www.igc.org/wfs/ Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT), based in Canada, at http://www.wigsat.org/index.html The
African Gender Institute (AGI), South Africa, at http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/ African
Women Global Network (AWOGNet), USA, at http://www.osu.edu/org/awognet/main.html Association for
Progressive Communications (APC), UK, Women’s
Networking Support Programme, http://www.apc.org/apcwomen/ AVIVA, UK,
http://www.aviva.org/ FEMNET, Kenya,
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet/index.html Gender,
Science and Development Program (GSD), International Federation of Institutes
for Advanced Study, http://www.ifias.ca/gsd/gsdinfo.html International
Information centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV), Netherlands,
http://www.iiav.nl/ International
Center for research on women, USA, http://www.icrw.org/ The Institute for Global Communications (IGC), USA, http://www.igc.org IGC
Womensnet, http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/ Latin American
Network Information Center (LANIC), USA, http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/women/ Network of
East-West Women (NEWW), FSU area, Russia, http://www.glasnet.ru/neww/ Synergy
Gender and Development, Senegal, http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm The Women
Leaders’ Network (WLN), http://www.bellanet.org/partners/wln/ GovernmentsDirectory of Ministries / Departments dealing with environmental matters at http://www.inetex.com/joanne/WORLD_ENVIRONMENT_ADDRESSES.htm Directory of Politicians of the World at http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/ EU, European Union, Welcome to Europa German Government, Federal Environment Ministry, Bundesumweltministerium German Government, Environment Agency, Umweltbundesamt German Government, Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) German Government, Bundesministerium fuer wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, BMZ NGOsNGO Steering Committee for the UN CSD at http://www.igc.org/csdngo/ Best Environmental Resources Directories at www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html The Earth Council at http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/ ENERGIA http://www.energia.org Energy Efficiency Toolkit http://www.caddet-ee.org/ee_tools.htm. Environmental Organizations WebDirectory at www.WebDirectory.com/ Commented, rich list of links on Sustainable Development, at http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/links/communications.html IISD / Linkages A Multimedia Resource for Environment & Development Policy Makers Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) at http://www.itdp.org/ International Center for Research on Women at http://www.icrw.org/ International Energy Agency http://www.iea.org International Energy Agency's Centre for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Efficiency Technologies (IEA CADDET Energy Efficiency) at http://www.caddet-ee.org International Forum for Rural Transport and Development at http://www.gn.apc.org/ifrtd/ International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE) at http://www.inforse.org The Sustainable Transport Action Network for
Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN network) UNED Forum www.unedforum.org World Conservation Union, IUCN, at http://www.iucn.org/ The WorldWatch Institute, at http://www.worldwatch.org/ The NGO Alternative Treaties for Rio, 1992 World Energy Council at http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/ KLIMA-BUENDNIS - Climate Alliance - Homepage umwelt.org - Das Forum für die Umweltbewegung one world web: DER Umwelt-Platz im Internet one world web: Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung WWF: Conservation Action Network
WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development ICC World Business Organization
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