Emerging Issues

<body> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <table border="1" width="100%" bordercolorlight="#FFFFFF" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="89%"> <h1><font face="Arial Black">Emerging Issues</font></h1> </td> <td width="11%" bgcolor="#0000FF" height="13"><font face="Arial Black"><img align="top" border="0" src="../../wssd/logo.gif" width="75" height="82" alt="Go to www.geneva2000.org"></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="justify"> <marquee style="color: #0000FF; font-family: Arial Black">Under Construction</marquee> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>WSSD+5 will</b></font></p> <ol> <li> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>look backwards & assess the present: </b> review implementation of the Copenhagen commitments between 1995 and 2000 (go to <a href="../../wssd/wssd5/wssd5.html" target="_top">WSSD+5</a>)</font></li> <li> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>look forward: </b>identify new strategies to achieve the goals agreed at the Social Summit in 1995, and address emerging issues (in this section).</font></li> </ol> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">Currently, the list of strategies & issues being discussed is rather extensive:</font></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Globalization: </b>guidelines on the social responsibilities of business; refocusing macroeconomic policies; guidelines for policies aiming to collect sufficient revenue to pay for national social services, social protection and other social policies in the context of globalization; effective forms of international cooperation and coordination of taxation policy between countries so as to contain tax competition;</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Social security </b>(financial security, their health, and personal safety): principles of socio-economic policy for responding to financial crises; management of national social protection systems;</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">Mandating several <b>new global action plans </b>is being discussed, such as on: full employment in an integrating world; achieving access to education for all by 2015; achieving access to basic health services for all by 2015;</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Furthermore</b>, discussions focus on </font> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">a global target for poverty eradication; </font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">procedures and institutions for social dialogue; </font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">gender mainstreaming and promoting gender equality nationally and internationally; </font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">support for activities to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS; </font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">debt relief for the heavily indebted low-income countries; </font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">reversing the current decline in ODA; </font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font face="Arial" size="2">standardization of development indicators.</font></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Click here to download the complete section as TXT file (   KB) or as ZIP file (   KB).</font></p> <p align="right"><i><font face="Arial" size="2">These documents have been taken and adapted from official UN web-sites</font></i></p> <p align="center"><b>[<font color="#FF6600">NOTE: UNDER CONSTRUCTION</font>. Links to relevant documents on these points and developments towards WSSD+5 shall be provided here]</b></p> <p style="line-height: 120%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6" align="left"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="left"><font face="Arial"><img src="../../wssd/Image2.gif" width="96" height="107" align="right" hspace="6" vspace="6"></font></p> </body>