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.
Fifthth Issue, 30th June, 2000
It's
Now, or Later
Corporate
Responsability Not Just About Standard Setting
IMF,
World Bank Impoverishing Africa
Disappointed
Delegates Pack Their Bags
Few Ideas, But Confusing
Conflict Should be the
Main Focus
Separating Real NGOs
From the Travelling Kind
In Search
of Alternatives to Globalisation
OECD: New Development Guidelines
Venezuela in Search
of the Lost Credibility
Racism is Alive, and Thriving
The Army of
the Poor Continues to Grow
Civil Society Makes
this Meeting Relevant - Roberto Bissio
Human Rights: From
Paper to Practice
Putting the
Disabled in the Picture
ASIA: More Democracy
Means Better Lives, Says UNDP
Children Get a Taste
of Civic Duty
SRI LANKA: No End to
Ethnic Tension
INDONESIA: Brushing
up on Reproductive Health Lessons
LEBANON: Trials
of Former Israeli Allies Divide the Lebanese
ZIMBABWE: Parliament
Set to Come Alive
The Nation Outside
DAWN Reveals Another
Vision
Global Strategy
to Promote Full Employment
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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.
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The 1996 Copenhagen Social Summit final report in English, French and Spanish.