=> AFRICA REGIONAL TASK FORCE FOR THE BEIJING + 15 REVIEW PROCESS
=> KENYAN NGOS DEVELOP AN ACTION STRATEGY TO REVIEW BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION
=> ORGANIZING FOR BEIJING + 15 IN WEST AFRICA=> ORGANIZING FOR BEIJING + 15 IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE ISLANDS
=> REGIONAL SCORECARD PROPOSED TO MONITOR GOVERNMENT PROGRESS IN AFRICA
=> UGANDA BPFA REVIEW NON-GOVERNMENT WORKING GROUP
=> UN ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA(UNECA) EXPERT GROUP AND MINISTERIAL MEETING ON OCTOBER 26-30, 2009; BANJUL, THE GAMBIA Read the rest of this entry »
Source: Via Campesina
In support of the Honduran people, Via Campesina calls you to participate in a “Global Day of Action for Honduras”, which takes place 11 August 2009. Support strong solidarity efforts in carrying out political and cultural mobilization, concrete actions, political pressure and lobbying, as well as any and all possible activities that help advance the Honduran popular resistance in defeating this military coup.
Two Financing for Development items have been taken up during the General Segment of the Substantive session of the Economic and Social Council in Geneva over the past week (23-30 July). Read the rest of this entry »
South Africa, as a member of the G20 group, is playing an increasingly important role in world affairs, but the xenophobic riots of May 2008 offered a reminder of how explosive the social situation can be. Khulile Nkushubana, general secretary of CONSAWU (1), examines the recent developments in the fight against racism and outlines the strategies for a more harmonious future. Read the rest of this entry »
Next year 2010 will be the 15th year of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA). As has been the tradition, Asia-Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) will convene the Asia-Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing + 15. It will take place on 22-24 October 2009 in Manila, Philippines. Miriam College, a private educational institution for women, will host the event. UNIFEM in New York has pledged partial financial support. Read the rest of this entry »
Awaiting execution on death row in the US state of Georgia, Troy Davis is an innocent victim of entrenched racial discrimination within the US judicial system, writes Keith Jennings. With his legal representatives not ‘claim[ing] his innocence in a timely fashion’, Davis faces the prospect of being murdered by Georgia’s authorities simply for not submitting his papers on time. If the US is to practise what it preaches and show the world that it is genuinely tackling domestic racial discrimination, such a flagrant human rights violation must be put right immediately, Jennings concludes. Full text on Pambazuka News. July 2009.
This South Centre Bulletin is a special edition focusing on the outcome of the UN Conference on the Financial Crisis held on 24-26 June. The first articles provide an analysis of the Conference’s outcome document. Other articles are on the Centre’s interpretation of the key issues in the conference, and report on the Centre’s press conference at the UN headquarters and on the roundtable in which the Centre and UNCTAD highlighted the need to address the new debt crisis and to provide liquidity to developing countries. See the Bulletin, pdf format: southcentre_un2009
By Ashok B. Sharma - Tue 23 of June, 2009, Source: MyNews.in - On the eve of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development slated to be held in New York from June 24, country’s trade unions and civil society organizations have demanded that India take a firm stand by urging for replacing the ailing global financial architecture by a new one embodying principles of economic justice and equitable Development.
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