United NationsMember States have reached a preliminary agreement on the modalities for the MDG Review Conference in September 2010.  The resolution decides that the meeting will be held from 20 to 22 September 2010 in New York.  It also asks that Hearings with civil society be organized no later than June 2010.  Formal approval of the resolution should be expected in the coming couple of weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

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Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states,  colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen:
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  • Tuesday Dec 1,2009 03:45 PM
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FISCThe International Civil Society Forum (FISC, for its Portuguese acronym) is an international event on Youth and Adult Education, to be held in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, Brazil, between November 28th and 30th, 2009. This is a plural space for reflection and formulation of proposals that seeks to promote the exchange of experiences and organize the process of incidence in the VI International Conference on Adult Education.   See full information.

Cover illustration from Trade Unions and Civil Society: Links to be (Re-) Discovered (Editions Labor, Brussels), published in French, 2003.

By Peter Waterman - Global Labor Charter Project
November 2009

INTRODUCTION

At the age of 73 it is something of an adventure for me to be hosted – for the first time in my life - by a Catholic labor studies center. I come from another labor tradition:

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Beijing15October 31, 2009 - At the NGO CSW Roundtable meeting on the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) review of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action women gathered to develop recommendations that reflected the needs and experiences of women in the region. The two day NGO meeting took place in Geneva from October 30-31, 2009 and focused on “the challenges of gender equality in the context of the economic and financial crisis.” Read the rest of this entry »

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