Copenhagen +5
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UN General
Assembly Special Session, Geneva, 26 - 30 June 2000
Results
/ Issues / Statements / News:
UN website
and Earth
Negotiations Bulletin
NGO Documents (from WSSD+5)
This web-site aims to
provide necessary information for WSSD+5 for all stakeholders.
We hope to make it easier for
you to get involved in this important process of reviewing
progress since 1995 and looking forward beyond 2000.
This site is aiming to make all relevant material available on
the issues under discussion - from the UN bodies working on
Social Development and other stakeholders such as NGOs; women's
groups; youth, indigenous peoples; religious communities; trade
unions; business & industry; research & education;
governments; local authorities. It also provides
international agreements from other UN processes which are
dealing with the same issues.
The sections listed on the left provide the following material:
WSSD: The outcome of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen 1995
WSSD+5: Documents for the 5 Year Review
Beyond WSSD+5: tracing various stakeholder views and follow-up activities around the world and looking at the following upcoming issues
Towards Earth Summit 2002 / Rio +10
Financing for Development
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
UN Commission on Social Development: reports from Commission meetings 1995 - 2000
[A large part of the collection of documents from the Commission for Social Development, the Social Summit and the Social Summit+5 is available on a free CD-ROM. Simply send an email message with your occupation and mailing address to geneva2000@un.org to order.]
Get Involved: useful information on how to participate in the process towards WSSD+5
10 Commitments / documents by issues: based on the issues addressed in the commitments from WSSD, each section provides documents relevant to the issue - international agreements from all UN Summit processes, Commissions and other UN Agencies; documents from other stakeholders; incl. an easy download package
Stakeholders / documents by groups: material relevant to the issues for WSSD+5 from 10 stakeholder groups
Emerging Issues: information about new strategies to achieve the goals agreed in 1995 and address new / emerging issues under discussion for WSSD +5
Online Discussions: networking, exchange and coordination before WSSD+5 is facilitated by online discussions and list servers. Find a directory of existing list servers listed by issues
Links: directories of links - alphabetically;
Search: search this site using a full text search engine
Download: quick and easy download of all documents on this site - as TXT files or ZIP files
Feedback: send us information about other material and links to include on this site: socdev@earthsummit2002.org
Site Map: the easiest way to find what you're looking for, listing all components of this site
This web-site is being built & maintained by UNED-UK. UNED is a multi-stakeholder forum that works to promote sustainable development at the global, national and local levels. To achieve this, UNED
links stakeholder groups together to promote sustainable development;
feeds their views to Governments and the UN at the highest levels;
informs of the latest stages of international negotiations;
advises on sustainability initiatives and good practices;
participates in UN meetings.
UNED has started in 1999 to prepare for the 10 year review of the Earth Summit in 2002. WSSD+5 is a significant stepping stone towards Earth Summit 2002.
We thank the UK Government, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, for supporting this project.