United
Nations General Assembly Special Session
Geneva, June 26-30, 2000
Produced by IPS-Inter Press Service with
financial support from the
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Second Issue, 27 June, 2000
Summit
Opens With New Drive Against Poverty
Rally
Combines Anarchy and Love
In
Search Of Global “Social Contract”—Geneva 2000 Forum Launched
Pomp
and Circumstance As Cotonou Agreement is Signed
The
Emerging Slavery
Lobbying and Campaigning
the Only Hope
The
European Union at Geneva 2000
"Globalisation Did
not Invent Poverty" - Somavia
Women
Not Seen as Citizens of the World, Say Activists
LATIN
AMERICA: Poverty Drops But Income
Gap Widens
People
Creating their Own Jobs
Health Care Skewed
Against the Poor
ZIMBABWE Elections Proceed
With Few Reported Incidence Of Violence
Rally Combines Anarchy and Love
By Alejandro Kirk and Gustavo Capdevila
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Has the world lived up to its 1996 commitments..?
Solidarity 2000 starting 17th of June!
MS's big summer event Solidarity 2000 will start very soon now, with a week-long variety of debates and arrangements. The activities range from encounters between young people from Balkan, Africa and Central America to big conferences on the planet's social development and environment.
Judge by yourself:
The 1996 Copenhagen Social Summit final report in English, French and Spanish.