Beyond WSSD+5
Beyond WSSD+5 |
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This page will trace the follow-up activities beyond Copenhagen+5 around the world
United Nations
Press coverage
Upcoming issues*
World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 25th - 30th 2001
Istanbul+5, Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda, June 2001
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2001, South Africa
*Visit
the Stakeholder
Toolkit for Women for documents from the cycle of UN Summits
and Conferences held in the 1990s and their follow-up processes.
Although these are separate processes, they are closely linked and
overlapping.
It is important not to think in the "compartments" of the
processes but look across the board.
Stakeholders' views and follow-up activities
| Socialwatch |
http://www.socialwatch.org
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| Coalition for Global
Solidarity and Social Development |
www.globalsolidarity.npaid.org
a nucleus of a global movement working to link together groups and organisations from around the world working with and involved in the World Summit for Social Development+5 in Geneva 2000, or dealing with issues related to the 10 Commitments. The aim is to promote grass-roots participation and involvement in the Social Summit, and to strengthen global solidarity, cooperation, and coordination. Global Solidarity mailings are distributed to more than 87,000 people in 97 countries world-wide. The aim of this list-serve is to provide top-quality information and up-dates on issues related to globalisation, to link together organisations and individuals in the North and South involved in addressing issues of peacebuilding, development, human rights, democracy, gender, debt, and other related issues, and to provide quality analysis and information on grass-roots initiatives and NGO, Government, and United Nations activities in these fields. Generally, the Coalition will only send one mailing a week. Articles by such authors as Sonja Soto, Alejandro Bendana, Susan George, Yash Tandon, Johan Galtung, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Ignacio Ramonet, and many, many others, are regularly sent out on the mailing-list and posted on the web-site.
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| ICFTU | http://www.icftu.org/focus.asp?Issue=ohse&Language=EN activities on Health, Safety & Environment Together with the employers, unions are breaking new ground in collective bargaining in the areas of health, safety and environmental protection, and forging new alliances with environmental NGOs. Governments at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) have proposed that core labour standards and a link to health and safety should become key features of Agenda 21, adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The next step is to insist that governments, together with employers, trade unions and NGO's translate these principles into concrete programmes of work.
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| CIDSE |
http://www.cidse.org/pubs/prspbcon.htm
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| Jubilee 2000 Coalition |
http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/main.html NGO coalition campaigning for: • cancellation of the unpayable debt • of the world's poorest countries • by the year 2000 • under a fair and transparent process
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Upcoming issues
| UN CSD Secretariat |
www.un.org/rio+10.htm For comments and
inquiries, please contact:
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| UNED Forum |
Article on Preparations
for CSD-9 by Felix Dodds
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| UNED Forum
Earth Summit 2002 - Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development |
"Towards
Earth Summit 2002" is UNED's multi-stakeholder project in preparation for Earth Summit
2002 - ten years after Rio.
http://www.earthsummit2002.org
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| UNED Forum
Roadmap to 2002 |
http://www.earthsummit2002.org/roadmap/ |
| UN Financing for Development |
www.un.org/esa/ffd/index.html |
| Report
by Secretary General, 31 July, 2000 |
Advanced unedited version of Financing for Development |
| UK Department for International Development |
http://www.devinit.org/findev/index.htm |
| Institute for Development Policy and Management |
http://www.devinit.org/findev/institutes.htm
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| Institute of Development Studies |
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global |
| Publication of the Globalization Challenge Initiative | http://www.globalarchitects.org/News___Notices_/news___notices_.html News and notices for IMF and World Bank watchers. This quarterly publication provides timely and in-depth analysis of the organizational structure, the policies and the lending operations of the IMF and the World Bank. News and Notices demystifies the role of the two institutions in the globalization process. In addition to critical analysis, News and Notices offers concrete proposals for changing the IMF and the World Bank and ensuring greater accountability, transparency, and citizen participation. |
| World Trade Net |
Guide
to World Trading System.
Intended to help firms to better understand how the multilateral trade
system works and how it affects the business of export and import. |
| Asian Development Bank |
Asian
Development Outlook 2000.
Looks at the social challenge facing developing Asia as it enters the new
millennium: improving the quality of life of the hundreds of
millions who still live in abject poverty. |
| Third World Network |
Globalization
and The South: some critical issues,
by Martin Khor. UNCTAD discussion paper No. 147, April 2000. Examines the
implications of some of the main features of the globalization process for
developing countries. |
| Socialwatch |
U.N.
Event on Financing for Development,
by Sophia Murphy, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, September
2000. |
| Study of the South Center |
Financing
Development: Issues for a South Agenda, |
| Harvard University, Cambridge |
Financing
for Development: current trends and issues for the future,
paper prepared by Kwesi Botchwey. UNCTAD X - High-level Round Table on
Trade and Development: Directions for the Twenty-first Century |
*material adapted from the SocialWatch website
World
Social Forum,
January 25th - 30th 2001, Porto
Alegre, Brazil
Visit www.globalsolidarity.npaid.org
for more information.*
Background
The World Social Forum will be a new international arena for the creation and
exchange of social and economic projects that promote human rights, social
justice and sustainable development. It will take place every year in the city
of Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the same period as the World Economic Forum,
which happens in Davos, Switzerland, at the end of January. Since 1971,
The World Economic Forum has played a key role in formulating economic policies
throughout the world. It's sponsored by a Swiss organization that serves as a
consultant to the United Nations and it's financed by more than one thousand
corporations. The World Social Forum will provide a space for building economic
alternatives, for exchanging experiences and for strengthening South- North
alliances between NGOs, unions and social movements. It will also be an
opportunity for developing concrete projects, to educate the public, and to
mobilize civil society internationally. The World Social Forum developed as a
consequence of a growing international movement that advocates for greater
participation of civil societies in international financial institutions such as
the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade
Organization (WTO). For decades, these institutions have been making decisions
that affect the lives of people all over the world, without a clear system for
accountability and democratic participation.
Brazil is one of the countries that have been greatly affected by global economic policies. At the same time, different sectors of Brazilian society are creating economic alternatives in rural and urban areas, in shantytowns, factories, churches, schools, etc. The richness of Brazilian grassroots organizations represents a source of inspiration for the development of the World Social Forum. The Brazilian Organizing Committee is building alliances with organizations in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe to develop the World Social Forum. This will be a broad coalition of organizations working on issues such as human rights, sustainable development, education, and environmental protection. The World Social Forum will discuss topics such as:
- Building economic policies that promote human development;
- creating international strategies for grassroots organizing;
- building proposals to democratize international institutions, such as the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank.
- the influence of multinational corporations in local communities;
- creating sustainable development proposals to eradicate poverty and hunger, and to protect the environment;
- organizing against gender and racial discrimination;
- the protection and preservation of indigenous land and culture.
Organizational
Issues Regarding the World Social Forum
1) The World Social Forum (WSF) will take place in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande
do Sul state, Brazil, between January 25-30, 2001, the same period in which the
World Economic Forum occurs in Davos, Switzerland.
2) It will take place in the Events Center of the Catholic University of Porto Alegre (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Porto Alegre, PUC), with the capacity for 2,500 people in a single auditorium. The PUC Events Center is a modern facility with up-to-date technological resources. The Center also has several smaller auditoriums.
3)
The WSF will consist of three types of activities:
a) A series of daily plenary sessions with several invited speakers;
b) presentations of current initiatives and exchange of experiences;
c) meetings to develop networks and to strengthen ties among groups
that engage in similar forms of organization.
The plenary sessions will be scheduled by the organizers of the WSF in
accordance with suggestions by participants. The other meetings will be
organized based on the interests and requests of the participants.
To
get involved or to receive further information, please write to:
Email: fsm2001@uol.com.br
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br
or www.worldsocialforum.org
*taken
and adapted from the Global Solidarity Special Newsletter
Coalition for Global Solidarity
and Social Development
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Go to http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/index.htm for general Information on racism and racial discrimination, access to data on the preparatory committees, seminars, agendas for upcoming events etc., press releases and statements relevant to the World Conference. New documents are added as soon as they are available.
Contact:
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
World Conference Secretariat
United Nations
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel: (41-22) 917-9290
Fax: (41-22) 917-9022
E-mail: husbands@un.org
or
E-mail: rhusbands.hchr@unog.ch
