46 results found.

2007

• Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007
  The city of Monterrey (Mexico) held the Universal Forum of Cultures on 2007. On this occasion, the Forum promotes thinking and methods of problem solving in order to address global issues such as peace, education, knowledge and ecological conservation, amo ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 7th
  The 2007 CIVICUS World Assembly, which was the second of the Glasgow series, was held from 23-27 May, 2007. Some 745 delegates attended from over 119 countries around the world. This was a definite increase from the number of countries recorded at the 2006 ...
• GCAP Montevideo Global Meeting 2007
  The Global Call to Action Against Poverty reached at Montevideo's commitment to extend its campaign until 2015 and to focus on reasons why more than 1,000 million people live as destitute on the planet. The decision by the 150 leaders gathered at the Urugu ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...

2006

• International People's Forum vs the World Bank and IMF
  In September 2006, the IMF and the World Bank organised their Annual Meeting in Singapore on September 19-20. In the spirit of resistance to neoliberal policies and in keeping with the history of people's struggles worldwide against economic domination, ...
• 2006 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.
  The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group are the largest and most comprehensive gathering of global financial representatives in the world, and are held outside their Washington, D.C. base ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 6th
  Over 800 delegates from over 100 countries came to Glasgow to discuss the overarching theme "Acting Together for a Just World", with four sub-themes of political, social, economic and civic justice. 2006 marked the beginning of our new approach to the CIVI ...
• 2006 Spring Meetings International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group
  Each Spring, the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee and the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee hold meetings to discuss progress on the work of the Fund and Bank. Plenary sessions of the IMF. The subjects treated in this meeting w ...
• GCAP Beirut Global Meeting 2006
  The global GCAP meeting in Beirut was celebrated with about 175 representatives from all over the world. Various evaluation work was commissioned of GCAP’s external impacts, websites, finances and a questionnaire survey about the future of GCAP was condu ...
• International conference on “Solidarity and Globalization: innovative financing for development and against pandemics”
  The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen the consensus on the need to implement new development financing mechanisms(particularly international solidarity contributions), to enrich ongoing projects (especially the air-ticket solidarity levy), to start ...
• World Social Forum 2006
  The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...

2005

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 6th
  The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, should have been the last Ministerial Conference of the Doha Round, held in 2001. It was, after the failure of the Cancun Conference, the last chance to relaunch the Development Round, but it failed a ...
• 2005 World Summit
  The 2005 World Summit represented an oportunity to take decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and the reform of the United Nations. The agenda was based on a attainable system of skirted suppliers in march by Secretary General Kofi ...
• Mediterranean Social Forum
  The Social Forum of Mediterranean was born in Barcelona, inspired by the Charter of Principles of the WSF. Its aim is to become a workspace plural cross, open to the different sensitivities, cultures, religions and peoples, to become an area of regional co ...
• World Social Forum 2005
  In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...

2004

• Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004
  The Forum was an event that brought together the various agents that comprise civil society. The Forum promoted dialogue with the aim of building a legacy at both local and international level. Three main themes defined the Forum: Cultural diversity, susta ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 5th
  The 5th CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Gaborone, Botswana at the end of March 2004, introducing the theme ‘Acting Together for a Just World’. Over 700 delegates from 105 countries gathered to discuss the issues of civic, economic, social and politic ...
• World Social Forum 2004
  In 2004, for the very first time the World Social forum took place outside Brazil. The decision was taken by the International Council as part of the process of promoting the WSF actual internationalization. The WSF 2004 counted on the presence of 74.126 ...
• ICPD at 10
  The 10th Anniversary of the ICPD, in 2004, marked the mid-point of its 20-year Programme of Action. This offered an opportunity to reflect on progress to date and take stock of challenges ahead. Towards this end, UNFPA conducted an in-depth, country-by-co ...

2003

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 5th
  The Cancún meeting’s special task was to take stock of progress in the [Doha Development Agenda] negotiations, provide any necessary political guidance and take decisions as necessary. It failed because of the opposition of the least developed countries t ...
• World Social Forum 2003
  The WSF 2003 brought together about 100 thousand people from all over the world. About 20 thousand delegates from 123 countries participated on the event. The core of the activities organized were included an amount of 10 conferences, 22 testimonials, 4 di ...

2002

• World Summit on Sustainable Development
  Also known as RIO+10. It focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for f ...
• World Social Forum 2002
  The second edition of the World Social Forum exceeded many respects expectations both by the number of attendees for the plurality of discussions and the large number of initiatives to implement alternatives to neoliberal globalization model imposed today ...

2001

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 4th
  Also known as The Development Round. It was held after September 11th attacks. Main Issues: agriculture and services, related aspects of intellectual property rights, electronic comerce, least-developed countries, trade and environment, aid for trade and ...
• World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
  Main issues: Racism, Intolerance, refuges, protection of minorities, migrants, ethnic conflicts Follow-up mechanisms:Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 4th
  In 2001, shortly after the “anti-globalisation” protests in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec City, the 4th CIVICUS World Assembly. This brought together over 730 people from 87 countries to reflect on “putting people at the centre,” and “the role of voluntary ac ...
• World Social Forum 2001
  The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to ...

2000

• Millenium Summit
  189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millennium 2005 Wo ...
• Social Summit +5
  United Nations member countries made a new commitment to eradicate poverty, address unemployment and promote social integration. They also agreed on a range of new initiatives for social development. Besides the measures being taken by Governments at the n ...
• Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st century, Special Session of the General Assembly
  The main issues were: peace, gender equality and development.

1999

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 3rd
  The Seattle Ministerial Confference wanted to launch a new round of trade negotiations, but it had to be postponed becuse of the street protests. The main issues were agriculture, services and how entry into the WTO the new members.
• ICPD+5
  Progress and challenges in the first five years of implementing the Cairo agreement were the focus of a series of meetings leading up to special session of the United Nations General Assembly (ICPD+5) in June 1999. The session identified four key actions: ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 3rd
  The following CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Manila in 1999, with the theme “Towards a New Civil Society: The Changing Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Business and Government”. Over 600 delegates from all sectors of society discussed the varied ...

1998

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 2nd
  This was the second Ministerial Conference after the Uruguay Round.
• Follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights, General Assembly 53rd Session
  The five-year review of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action is an important part of the follow-up mechanism to the World Conference on Human Rights

1997

• Kyoto Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, third
  Kyoto Protocol was adopted at COP 3 in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997. The complexity of the negotiations, however, meant that considerable “unfinished business” remained even after the Kyoto Protocol itself was adopted. The Protocol sketched out the ba ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 2nd
  In 1997, the CIVICUS World Assembly moved to Budapest, Hungary, attracting more than 500 people from 76 countries and six continents. Participants reviewed CIVICUS’ activities and immersed themselves in issues around visibility, resource mobilisation and ...

1996

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 1st
  This was the first Ministerial Conference after the WTO creation in 1995. Its main issues were the famous "Singapore issues", refering to four working groups: investment protection, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facil ...
• UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
  The purpose of the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) is to address two themes of equal global importance: "Adequate shelter for all" and "Sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world". Human beings are a ...

1995

• World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, the 4th
  Main issues: The advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence againts women and other ares of concern. Follow-up mechanisms: Beinjing+5
• World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)
  Social development with three core issues: eradication of poverty, expansion of productive employment and reduction of unemployment, and social integration Since the Summit in 1995, the General Assembly has annually considered the issue of implementation o ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 1st
  The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world. The first CIVICUS World Assembly was held in Mexico City in 1995. Through plenary spee ...

1994

• International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP)
  At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that population and development are inextricably linked, and that empowering women and meeting people's needs for education and health, including repro ...

1993

• World Conference on Human Rights
  The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action marks the culmination of a long process of review and debate over the current status of human rights machinery in the world. It also marks the beginning of a renewed effort to strengthen and further implement th ...

1992

• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
  The main issues were the ernviroment and sustainable development. Follow-up mechanisms:Commission on Sustainable Development; Inter-agency Committee on Sustainable Development; High-level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development

1990

• World Summit for Children
  Goals for the year 2000 for children's health, nutrition, education, and access to safe water and sanitation Mid-decade review, with Secretary-General's progress report presented at the 1996 General Assembly session on the anniversary of the Children's Sum ...