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At the opening session, keynote addresses will be made by the Secretary-General and Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, President of the 54th session of the General Assembly, followed by Ms. Hanna Suchocka, Member of the Parliament of Poland and former Prime Minister of Poland; Mr. Jaime Lerner, Governor of the State of Parana and former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, and Ms. Hanan Ashrawi, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy. This year, for the first time, a sitting Head of State, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, will address the conference at the closing session. Other notable speakers include Mr. Ralph Nader, Founder of Public Citizen and Ms. Elisabeth Rehn, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference will also feature morning and afternoon panels, as well as 30 Midday NGO Workshops, organized by the NGOs associated with DPI.

We welcome you and your colleagues to attend any of the panel discussions and Midday NGO Workshops during the conference. Attached, please find for your information the conference programme. You will find further updates on our Section's Web site at: www.un.org/dpi/ngosection. cc: Ms. T. Gastaut Ms. L. Al-Mughairy Mr. P. Hoeffel Mr. Connor Mr. Corel1 Mr. Desai Mr. Dhanapala Mr. Gambari Mr. Jin Yongjian Mr. Miyet Mr. Nair Mr. Otunnu Mr. Prendergast Riza Mr. Sevan Mr. Annabi Mr. Civili Mr. Fall Mr. Halbwachs Ms. King Ms. McAskie Mr. Niwa Mr. Riesco Mr. Ruggie Mrs.Rafiah Salim Mrs.Sorensen Mr. Stoby Mr. Zacklin Mrs.Lindenmayer Mr. Knutsson Mr. Tharoor Mr. Mortimer The Way to International

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The Way to Peace and International Cooperation

28-30 August 2000 United Nations, New York

Organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information in cooperation with the NGO/DPI Executive Committee

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION DPI^NGO NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS The organizers of the conference acknowledge the generous support of the following contributors: The CeleXx Corporation The Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations The World Family Organization Message from the Secretary-General

I am very pleased that this year's DPI/NGO Conference, "Global Solidarity. The Way to Peace and International Cooperation", focuses on issues central to this pivotal period for the United Nations. The millennium year has given us many opportunities to strengthen the partnerships required to carry out the work of the Organization, now and in the years ahead. In April, I presented my Millennium Report to the General Assembly, entitled "We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century", which outlined my vision for the future of the Organization. As many noted, the title suggests a central role for civil soci- ety in our future. Indeed, I believe that is the direction in which we must move. In May, the Millennium Forum of civil society took place over five days at UN Headquarters. The resulting Declaration and Plan of Action confirmed the common vision that we share, particularly with the community of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), over 3,000 of which work closely with us at Headquarters and with the entire UN family. I hope that Member States will carefully review the Forum's many constructive recommenda- tions during the Millennium Assembly, which opens in September. As part of this millennium process, the 53rd Annual DPI/NGO Conference serves as a bridge between other major NGO gatherings of the past two years and the Millennium Summit of Heads of State and Government. In the programme that follows, you can see that the Conference will further the lively and often heated debate about the appropriate role that civil society organizations—as well as the private sector—can play in the decision- making process at the international level. On behalf of the United Nations, I made it clear in recent years that we wish to embrace new partnerships with civil society and the private sector. These are challenging proposals for Member States and NGOs alike, and many legitimate concerns have been raised as to the integration of these new partners into our work. We are now moving beyond mere promises of partnership, and are entering the much rockier terrain of implementation. But there is no doubt at all in my mind that civil society can make a tremendous difference to the success of our work. This year's DPI/NGO Conference will undoubtedly move us forward in this ongoing process of consultation and understanding, and I wish you all success in your deliberations.

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Kofi A. Annan United Nations 53rd Annual DPI/NGO Conference Global Solidarity: The Way to Peace and International Cooperation

28-30 August 2000 United Nations Headquarters, New York

This year's conference, "Global Solidarity: The Way to Peace and International Cooperation", provides a forum for representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the United Nations system and Governments to explore concrete ways in which civil society can work with the United Nations and Governments to implement the action plans that were agreed upon during the major United Nations and NGO conferences of the 1990s. The world conferences, organized by the United Nations during the 1990s, negotiated a remark- ably cohesive set of action plans designed to achieve sustainable development for all people in the coming decades. At the same time, the burgeoning of NGOs, spurred in part by the multifaceted process of globalization, has enabled the organization of potent civil society campaigns, among them campaigns to ban landmines, to establish an International Criminal Court, to cancel crippling foreign debts and to address the negative aspects of the current global financial architecture. The conference will look at existing campaigns, and explore new areas where progress can be made. What makes for a successful campaign? How can cross-cutting sectoral concerns be unified? How can they be replicated from country to country? How do we set priorities? What kind of working relationships between NGOs, the United Nations and Governments will ensure sustained success? In addition to the opening and closing keynote speakers, the three-day conference features five morning and afternoon plenary panels, focusing on the best practices and lessons learned from recent experiences and on the identification of new, broad-based campaigns that bring together multiple issues. It will also examine the many ways in which civil society can participate in the decision-making processes, nationally and internationally, that affect the well-being of people everywhere. The conference also explores the role of civil society in policy formulation and imple- mentation in relation to the increased demands for humanitarian intervention in conflict areas. Panels include high-level government and United Nations officials and representatives of civil soci- ety, including NGOs, the private sector, academia and media. The 53rd Annual DPI/NGO Conference is organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) in cooperation with the Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations associated with DPI. Conference Schedule Monday, 28 August 2000

The opening session takes place in the General Assembly Hall. All subsequent sessions take place in Conference Room 4. Midday NGO Workshops take place from 1.15 p.m. to 2.45 p.m. in various conference rooms each day. 8 a.m.-9.45 a.m. Registration, Visitors' Lobby, United Nations Headquarters (46th Street and First Avenue) Opening Session: 10a.m.-12.30p.m. General Assembly Hall Welcome: Kensaku Hogen, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations Addresses: Theo-Ben Gurirab, President of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Keynote Addresses: Hanna Suchocka, Member of Parliament, Poland Jaime Lerner, Governor of the State of Parana, Brazil Hanan Ashrawi, Secretary-General, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy NGO Welcome: Elaine Valdov, Chair, NGO/DPI Executive Committee Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Chair, NGO/DPI Planning Committee Afaf Mahfouz, President, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)

Midday NGO Workshops (see Workshops schedule on pages 27-29) 1.15 p.m.-2.45 p.m. Conference Schedule Monday, 28 August 2000

Afternoon Session 3 p.m.-5.30 p.m. Conference Room 4 The 1990s: Action Not Promises This panel focuses on the implementation of the action plans of the major United Nations and NGO conferences of the 1990s. The tasks are enormous, diverse and interlinked. It is a key respon- sibility for NGOs to monitor the implementation of these action plans and identify ways in which they can work in partnership with the United Nations and Governments in achieving sustainable development for all. The panel discusses how NGOs can work in cross-sectoral civil society cam- paigns to mobilize the necessary political will and financial resources. How do we set priorities for these campaigns and how do we carry them out?

Moderator: Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations

Panellists: Jacques Bugnicourt, Executive Secretary, Environmental Development in the Third World Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Ann Pettifor, Director, Jubilee 2000 Coalition UK Anne Walker, Executive Director, International Women's Tribune Centre

Written Questions from the Floor Conference Schedule Tuesday, 29 August 2000

NGO/DPI Executive Committee Business Meeting 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Conference Room 4 Morning Session 10a.m.-12.30p.m. Conference Room 4

The New Democratic Diplomacy: Civil Society as Partner with the United Nations and Governments This panel develops practical application of the New Democratic Diplomacy, meaning the working partnership between Governments, the United Nations and civil society to negotiate sus- tained social change for the betterment of humanity. Success requires the close collaboration of all three of these actors. The New Democratic Diplomacy recognizes that when Governments alone negotiate problems and conflicts, voices of civil society are rarely heard and the desired results are not often achieved. In recent years, it has been demonstrated that international negotiations can be greatly facilitated by the inclusion of civil society partners. For instance, the Advisory Opinion on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons handed down by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the result of civil society bringing the issue of nuclear weapons to Governments. The treaty to ban anti- personnel landmines succeeded as a result of civil society organizations linking with like-minded Governments and the United Nations. Civil society is also credited with generating the political will that resulted in the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Moderator: Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Panellists: Alejandro Bendana, Director, Centro de Estudios Internacionales Betty Murungi, Member, International Federation of Women Lawyers—Kenya Chapter Indira Rosenmal, Counsel, Human Rights Watch Pierre Schori, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Written Questions from the Floor

Midday NGO Workshops (see Workshops schedule on pages 27-29) 1.15p.m.-2.45p.m. Conference Schedule Tuesday, 29 August 2000 Afternoon Session 3 p.m.-5.30 p.m. Conference Room 4

Humanitarian Intervention: Roles for Civil Society This panel focuses on the policy of humanitarian intervention as it relates to NGOs and their interaction with decision-making bodies of the international community, particularly the United Nations. In Iraq, in Kosovo and in other conflict areas, the international community has intervened militarily in the face of threats or incidents of massive human rights violations in the context of the evolving redefinition of national sovereignty. Both proponents and opponents of such humanitarian intervention have strong arguments. It is recognized that civil society should play a greater role in early warning and preventive diplomacy to avoid large-scale human rights violations and interven- tions. In the event of intervention, some argue for a stronger role for civil society in the decision- making processes regarding intervention and its aftermath. The discussion focuses on ways to ensure that decisions regarding humanitarian intervention are taken in a consistent and transparent manner, and on identifying ways in which NGOs can help ensure effectiveness. Moderator: Elisabeth Rehn, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina Panellists: Holly Burkhalter, Advocacy Director, Physicians for Human Rights Patricia Durrant, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations William Aurelien Eteki Mboumoua, President, Cameroonian Red Cross Hibaaq Osman, President, Centre for the Strategic Initiatives of Women Written Questions from the Floor

Conference Reception (by invitation only) 6.30 p.m.-9.30 p.m. Evening Reception organized by the NGO/DPI Executive Committee, and co-sponsored by CeleXx Corporation and the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations Venue: Cipriani, 110 East 42nd Street (between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue) Special guests include Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan, Deputy Secretary- General Ms. Louise Frechette, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, President of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly, and Mr. Hani Holkeri, President-designate of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. Conference Schedule Wednesday, 30 August 2000

Millennium Forum Outcome Update 9 a.m.-lOa.m. Techeste Ahderom, Co-Chair, Millennium Forum Conference Room 4 Morning Session 10a.m.-l2.30 p.m. Conference Room 4

Best Practices: Advancing Our Shared Agenda After a great deal of trial and error, many development programmes and civil society initiatives have produced desired results: real progress towards sustainable development and human security based on respect for human rights. What works? What is common to organizing campaigns around landmines or debt cancellation? What are the factors that contributed to the successful negotiations regarding global warming and other international laws? What are the elements of development poli- cies that produce successful, people-centred change in rural areas? What policies enable multi-eth- nic societies to overcome fratricidal conflicts? What steps enable a neighbourhood to secure safe drinking water or farmers to resolve a land dispute peacefully? What allows women to participate in community decision-making for the first time? What are the best practices of the private sector that have been effective in promoting sustainable development? Moderator: Yoriko Meguro, Professor, Department of Sociology, Sophia University Panellists: Arnold Hiatt, Chairman, Business for Social Responsibility Mats Karlsson, Vice President for External Affairs and United Nations Affairs, World Bank Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Director, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Written Questions from the Floor

Midday NGO Workshops (see Workshops schedule on pages 27-29) 1.15p.m.-2.45p.m. Conference Schedule Wednesday, 30 August 2000

Afternoon Session 3 p.m.^.30 p.m. Conference Room 4

An Economic Vision That Works: A Dialogue The implementation of the action plans of the 1990s requires economies that support and pro- mote sustainable development on a global basis. Current economic paradigms have not been able to eradicate poverty; indeed, some assert that they frequently foment conflict and demand a level of growth and development that will eventually consume the planet. This fundamental contradiction must be resolved if civil society campaigns are to have anything more than a cosmetic effect. The creativity, vision and political will required to address this contradiction successfully have eluded us, but new awareness and the global vitality of civil society movements may provide the opportu- nity for workable solutions in coming years. This panel provides a dynamic discussion regarding our options and explores the economic ini- tiatives that might be undertaken at the local, national, regional and international levels to reorient economic policies towards equitable sustainable development. How do we address the seemingly unbridgeable gap between North and South? How do we manage the undesirable elements of glob- alization? Moderator: Jacqueline Grapin, President, The European Institute Panellists: Carlos Fortin, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (invited) Khadija Haq, President, Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre Arthur Mbanefo, Chairman, Group of 77 Developing Countries and China Written Questions from the Floor

10 Conference Schedule Wednesday, 30 August 2000

Closing Session 4.30 p.m.-5.30 p.m. Conference Room 4

New Responsibilities for Civil Society Chair: Kensaku Hogen, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations Speakers: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria Malia Graver, Kupuna for Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center Ralph Nader, Founder, Public Citizen

11 Keynote Speakers

The seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan brings to the position a wealth of experience and exper- tise gained through more than three decades of service with the world Organization. A national of Ghana who is fluent in English, French and several African languages, he is the first Secretary- General to emerge from the ranks of the international civil service, having served in Addis Ababa, Cairo, Geneva and Ismailia (Egypt) and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. His diverse career has spanned issues of management, administration, budget, finance and personnel, as well as refugees and peacekeeping. Prior to assuming the post of Secretary-General in January 1997, Mr. Annan was United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. Between November 1995 and March 1996, he was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the former Yugoslavia. Apart from his official duties, Mr. Annan has long been involved in the areas of education and the welfare and pro- tection of international staff. Mr. Annan was educated in Ghana, the United States and Switzerland. Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of Macalester College and on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for the Future, in Menlo Park, California.

13 for Foreign Affairs, Information Unity (OAU) Council of Ministers. and Broadcasting of the Republic As the Council's First Vice- of Namibia and Dean of African Chairman, he presided over the Foreign Ministers. With over 35 first Extraordinary Session of the years of service in the field of Central Organ of the OAU for the international diplomacy, he has Prevention, Management and worked with three generations of Resolution of Conflicts. He is also world leaders and five Secretaries- co-founder of the African-Latin General of the United Nations. A American Initiative, an organiza- skilled negotiator, Ambassador tion which brings together the Gurirab served for over 14 years as countries of Africa and South the Chief Representative of the America in a network of coopera- South West Africa People's tion, solidarity and partnership Organization (SWAPO) to the aimed at promoting their mutual United Nations, and later, as its development. Permanent Observer. Throughout For further information on the those years he also played a major fifty-fourth session of the part in negotiations leading to United Nations General Ambassador Theo-Ben Gurirab, Namibia's independence. Assembly, please visit: who is completing his term as In 1995, Ambassador Gurirab www.un.org/ga/54 President of the fifty-fourth session represented Namibia on the Bureau of the General Assembly, is Minister of the Organization of African

Hanna Suchocka has been a Poznan, the Max-Planck Institute of Member of Parliament of the Public International Law and the Republic of Poland since 1980. Institute of State and Law, Human From 1997 to June 2000, she was Rights Centre, Poznan. Active with- Minister of Justice and Attorney in the Council of Europe, Ms. General. She also served as Prime Suchocka was a member of its Minister from 1992 to 1993. Committee of Wise Persons (1998), Between 1989 and 1997, Ms. the Sub-Committee for Contacts Suchocka was a member of the with the United Nations (1993- Parliamentary Committee for 1994) and "Democracy through Foreign Affairs, the Constitutional Law", a commission of experts Committee of the National (1990). She serves on the Board of Assembly and the Polish delegation Governors of the European Cultural to the Parliamentary Assembly of Foundation, Amsterdam, and was the Council of Europe. A researcher the Chair of the Polish-Ukrainian and lecturer in constitutional law, Forum from 1996 to 1997. Ms. Suchocka has held positions at For further information, please Adam Mickiewicz University, visit: www.sejm.gov.pl

14 ner, he is also a United Nations the Curitiba Ecological Capital, an consultant for urban planning urban solid waste pre-selection and affairs and has designed transporta- recycling exchange programme. In tion and urban development pro- addition, he introduced a fast and grammes for major Brazilian cities, efficient bus system that surpassed such as Recife, Salvador and Sao the advantages of the subway or Paulo. light transit systems. In 1990, From 1971 to 1992, Governor Governor Lerner received the Lerner served for three consecutive United Nations Environmental terms as Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil. Award from the United Nations In this capacity, he implemented Environment Programme (UNEP). programmes that changed the eco- He is also the recipient of numer- nomic and social profile of the city ous other awards, including hon- and fostered environmental aware- orary doctorates from several uni- ness. His programmes, which have versities around the world. been widely acknowledged by the For further information, please international community and shared visit: www.celepar.br with other administrators and Jaime Lerner is currently serving researchers through the Open his second four-year term as University of the Environment in Governor of the State of Parana, Curitiba, include the 24-Hour Brazil. An architect and urban plan- Street, the Wire Opera House and

Hanan Ashrawi is founder and An academic, Ms. Ashrawi For further information regard- Secretary-General of the Palestinian established and chaired the ing MIFTAH, please visit: Initiative for the Promotion of Department of English at Birzeit www.miftah.org Global Dialogue and Democracy University in 1973, where she also (MIFTAH). She also serves as an served as Dean of the Faculty of elected member of the Palestinian Arts from 1986 to 1990, and founded Legislative Council of the Jerusalem and headed the University's Legal District. Prior to establishing MIF- Aid Committee/Human Rights TAH, Ms. Ashrawi was an elected Action Project. Ms. Ashrawi has Head of the Political Committee published works on Palestinian liter- from 1996 to 1997, Minister of ature, culture and politics, including Higher Education and Research This Side of Peace: A Personal from 1996 to 1998, Head and Account, Contemporary Palestinian Secretary-General of the Bethlehem Poetjy and Fiction and From 2000 Steering Committee, Founder Intifada to Independence. Her and Commissioner-General for the accomplishments have been Palestinian Independent Commis- acknowledged with six awards of sion for Citizens' Rights (PICCR) Doctor Honoris Causa as well as and a member of both the several distinguished service awards 'Diplomatic Committee and the in the areas of women's issues, Intifada Political Committee. peace, education and human rights.

15 Mary Malia Graver, also known viding social services assistance to as Aunty Malia, is kupuna (elder) Hawaiian children and families. and serves as consultant on Western She has also been a House Parent and Hawaiian cultural spiritual val- at the Salvation Army Boys' Home, ues at the Queen Lili'uokalani where she provided counselling Children's Center in Hau'ula, services, as well as educational, Hawaii. Since January 1997, she cultural and social programmes, for has led workshops and conducted boys aged 6 to 19 years. The recipi- community presentations on the ent of numerous awards in Hawaii, ancient practice of Ho'oponopono including the David Malo Award in (to set right) and Hawaiian cultural 1995, Aunty Malia was selected as spiritual values at the Center. an Outstanding Hawaiian by the Besides teaching Hawaiian val- Association of Hawaiian Civic ues and traditions for over 27 years, Clubs in 1990. Aunty Malia has served as a Social For further information, please Work Assistant (1965 to 1994) pro- visit: www.onipaa.org

foremost consumer advocate in the responsive to safety concerns, United States. Mr. Nader first came thereby preventing needless fatali- to the public's attention in 1965, ties, injuries and diseases. Along with the publication of his book with activists from around the Unsafe at Any Speed, which country, the influential "Nader's exposed unsafe cars, such as the Raiders" have successfully pushed defective Corvair. With proceeds through numerous laws to protect from the settlement of his lawsuit consumers, the poor, workers, tax- against the car's manufacturer, and payers and the environment, to a reputation for voicing public con- combat corporate misconduct and cern regarding certain corporate to increase citizen skills and citi- practices, Mr. Nader launched the zens' access to their government. modern consumer movement, Mr. Nader is the author of many which today consists of dozens of books, among them Action for a organizations with hundreds of citi- Change, Corporate Power in zen leaders. America, The Menace of Atomic For more than three decades, Energy and Who s Poisoning Mr. Nader worked to educate America. Ralph Nader, founder of Public Americans about corporate abuses, Citizen, is widely known as the and how to make government

16 Kensaku Hogen was appointed D.C. From 1987 to 1989, he was United Nations Under-Secretary- Deputy Director-General of the General for Communications and United Nations Bureau in the Public Information in March 1998. Foreign Ministry of Japan. Mr. He was formerly the Director- Hogen also served as the Director- General of the Foreign Service General of the Ministry's Middle Training Institute at the Ministry of Eastern and African Affairs Bureau. Foreign Affairs in Japan, with the He was Consul-General in rank of Ambassador. Over the Honolulu, Hawaii, and Boston, course of his career, Mr. Hogen has Massachusetts, from 1991 to 1995. worked on a wide range of issues in the field of public information, including directing the Foreign Press Division of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo and the Press and Infor-mation Section at the Embassy of Japan in Washington,

17 Alejandro Bendana is International Advisory Council of the Hague Appeal for the Director of the Peace. In addition, he is co-chair of the Ethics and Justice Centre de Estudios Working Group of the International Campaign to Ban Internationales in Landmines. Managua, Nicaragua, an Mr. Bendana has served as Secretary-General of the NGO that is dedicated Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua, as Ambassador to the United to post-conflict peace- Nations and as the official spokesperson for the Nicaraguan building. He currently Government. In 1993, Mr. Bendana was a Visiting Professor serves on the coordinat- of History at the University of Chicago, and, in 1996, he was ing bodies of the Inter- a Visiting Professor in the Conflict Transformation Program national Action of the Eastern Mennonite University. His most recent books Network on Small Arms include Demobilization and Reintegration in Central (IANSA), on the Forum on Early Warning, on Jubilee South, America: A Peace Building Perspective and U.S. Domination on the International Action South Group Network and on the in the Ne\v Global Order.

Jacques Bugnicourt is development. The organization also publishes a scientific Executive Secretary of review entitled African Environment and the series Studies Environmental Devel- and Research. opment in the Third Prior to serving as Executive Secretary at ENDA, World (ENDA), a Mr. Bugnicourt was appointed by the first independent Dakar-based interna- Government of Senegal as Director of Development. He later tional non-governmental served for 10 years as professor at the African Institute for organization that is ded- Economic Development and Planning in Dakar, where he icated to environment helped to establish an environmental development pro- and development pri- gramme for Africa. Mr. Bugnicourt has participated in mis- marily in sub-Saharan sions for various United Nations institutions in a number of and northern Africa, third world countries. Asia and Latin America. ENDA's activities consist mainly of For further information regarding ENDA, please visit: grass-roots work in the agricultural sector, research and www.enda.sn

Holly Burkhalter is the States support for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Advocacy Director of Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Physicians for Human Mines and on their Destruction (1999). Rights, a Boston-based Prior to joining Physicians for Human Rights, human rights organiza- Ms. Burkhalter was affiliated for 14 years with Human tion specializing in Rights Watch as that organization's Advocacy Director and medical, scientific and Director of the Washington office. From 1981 to 1983, she forensic investigations staffed the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human of violations of interna- Rights and International Organizations. Ms. Burkhalter is a tionally recognized frequent witness before Congress, publishes articles and human rights. Ms. opinion pieces, and writes a regular column on human rights Burkhalter is also the law and policy for Legal Times. Coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, a For further information regarding Physicians for Human • coalition of over 400 groups organized to promote United Rights, please visit: www.phrusa.org

18 Ambassador Anwarul Ambassador Chowdhury has represented Bangladesh and Karim Chowdhury the United Nations in a variety of multilateral forums and took up his responsibili- meetings. He is a specialist in development and has been ties as Permanent deeply involved in the international debate on many eco- Representative of nomic and social issues. He has served as Chairman of the Bangladesh to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) and as United Nations in 1996. Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the five-year In this capacity, he cur- review of the Programme of Action of the International rently represents Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) at the Bangladesh on the 1999 General Assembly special session. He also served two United Nations Security one-year terms as Vice-President of the Economic and Council for the term Social Council (ECOSOC). 2000-2001. For further information, please visit: An expert in United Nations and multilateral affairs, www.un.int/bangladesh

Nitin Desai is United Prior to his current position, Mr. Desai was Under- Nations Under- Secretary-General for the newly created Department for Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development in 1993. Economic and Social Mr. Desai began his career in 1973 in the Planning Affairs. Since his Commission of the Government of India, where he served in appointment to that various capacities. He was Secretary of the Economic position in 1997, Mr. Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, as well as Desai has been involved Secretary and Chief Economic Adviser in India's Ministry of in the coordination and Finance. He has published several articles and papers on consolidation of the development planning, regional economics, industry, energy three economic and and international economic relations. social departments of For further information on the United Nations the United Nations. He is also the Convenor of the Executive Department of Economic and Social Affairs, please Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, which brings visit: www.un.org/esa/desa.htm together the heads of all the UN Secretariat entities directly concerned with economic, environmental and social issues.

Jayantha Dhanapala diplomatic appointments with the Sri Lankan Government, has been the Under- serving as Ambassador to the United States (1995-1997) and Secretary-General for Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Disarmament Affairs at Nations in Geneva (1984-1997). In addition, he was the United Nations President of the Conference on Disarmament, President of since February 1998. the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, Director He was appointed Head of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research of the Special Group (UNIDIR) from 1987 to 1995 and member of the Canberra visiting the Presidential Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Mr. Sites in Iraq and as a Dhanapala has published three books and several articles in Commissioner of the international journals and has lectured in many countries. United Nations Special For further information about the United Nations Commission on Iraqi Disarmament (UNSCOM). Department of Disarmament Affairs, please visit: Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Dhanapala held www.un.org/Depts/dda/DDAHome.htm

19 Dianne Dillon-Rldgley States delegation to the United Nations Conference on represents the World Environment and Development (Earth Summit) in 1992 and Y.W.C.A. (World Young was appointed national co-chair of the Citizen's Network for Women's Christian Sustainable Development in the United States after the Association, Geneva, Summit. Switzerland) at United From 1998 to 1999, Ms. Dillon-Ridgley was Executive Nations Headquarters. Director of the Women's Environment and Development Over the past 10 years, Organization (WEDO), and has served on the President's she has served on Council on Sustainable Development (1994), Zero numerous United States Population Growth 1994-1997 and the Global Water delegations to United Partnership, Stockholm (1998). Nations and other inter- For further information regarding the World Young national conferences. She was commissioned by the White Women's Christian Association, please visit: House to serve as an adviser and member of the United http://www.worldywca.org/~w-ywca-1 /

William Aurelien Eteki Africa and the Challenges of the Third Millennium. Mboumoua is President Mr. Eteki Mboumoua has held several positions at the of the Cameroonian Red national and the international levels. He was Minister for Cross. A former Foreign Affairs in Cameroon from 1984 to 1987, and from Secretary-General of the 1980 to 1984 was Minister in Charge of the Mission of the Organization of African President of Cameroon. He was a member of the Board for Unity (OAU), he is also the administration of the International Fund for the the Special Envoy of the Promotion of Culture (UNESCO, 1985), and a member of Secretary-General of the the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Disarmament United Nations concern- Commission from 1983 to 1987. Mr. Eteki Mboumoua has ing the problem of light published numerous books on Africa, including Un certain arms proliferation in humanisme and Democratize!" la culture. Sahara-Sahelian Africa. In addition, he is a member of sev- For further information, please visit: eral groups including the High Commissioner for Refugees www.ifrc.org/address/cm.asp Advisory Group and the Independent Commission on

Carlos Fortin is the preparation of the main report to the Eighth UNCTAD Deputy Secretary- Conference, held in Cartagena, Colombia, in 1992. General of the United Mr. Fortin has also served as Director of Programmes of Nations Conference on the South Commission in Geneva, where he was in charge of Trade and Development coordinating the preparation of the final published report of (UNCTAD). Between the Commission, The Challenge of the South. From 1973 to April 1994 and 1988, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Development September 1995, he was Studies at the University of Sussex, where he served as OfFicer-in-Charge of Chairman of the Research Committee, Deputy Director and UNCTAD and, in that Acting Director. He has published two books and a large capacity, led the prepa- number of articles in scholarly journals and has edited vol- ration of the Ninth UNCTAD Conference, which took place umes on issues relating to economic development and inter- in Midrand, South Africa, in 1996. Between 1990 and 1994, national trade. he was Deputy to the Secretary-General of UNCTAD and For further information regarding UNCTAD, please Director of the Commodities Division. He was responsible for visit: www.unctad.org

20 Jacqueline Grapin is Before establishing the Institute, Ms. Grapin spent 14 an economist and an years as economic editor and staff writer for Le Monde. expert in European inte- From 1987 to 1994, she was economic correspondent in the gration and transatlantic United States for Le Figaro, and Director-General of the economic and strategic Interavia Publishing Group in Geneva from 1981 to 1985. issues. Co-founder and She was also Editor-in-Chief of Europa, a joint publication President of The ofLe Monde, Tlie Times of London, Die Welt and La Stampa European Institute, the (1977-1981). Ms. Grapin, who makes frequent media and leading European- public appearances speaking on aspects of United States- American public policy European relations, is the author of five books on interna- organization in tional and transatlantic relations, including La guerre civile Washington, D.C., Ms. mondiale, Radioscopie des Etats-Unis and Forteresse Grapin is also Counsellor to the French Government on for- America. eign trade, a Trustee Emeritus of the Aspen Institute in the For further information regarding The European United States, and Vice President of Aspen France. Institute, please visit: [email protected]

Arnold Hiatt is Corporation became known for its innovative social initia- Chairman of Business tives. for Social Responsibility, Mr. Hiatt established the first on-site corporation day- an organization whose care centre at the Stride Rite Corporation more than 25 years purpose is to enhance ago. Other pioneering social initiatives include the smoke- companies' financial free workplace, an on-site fitness centre and a family leave performance by helping policy. In addition, he founded the Stride Rite Community them address human Service Program at Harvard University, providing scholar- rights and labour issues, ships and grants for students who return to the inner city to and of the Stride Rite do volunteer work, as well as fellowships to graduating stu- Foundation. He joined dents to pursue careers in public service and teaching. Mr. the Stride Rite Hiatt is currently a trustee of Northeastern University and a Corporation as President in 1967 and served as Chief fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Executive Officer until 1989 and as Chairman until his For further information regarding Business for Social retirement in 1992. During his tenure, the Stride Rite Responsibility, please visit: www.bsr.org

Motarilavoa Hilda Minister for Justice, Culture, Religion, Women, Health, Lini is the Director of Water Supply, the Rights of Children, Population Policy and the Pacific Concerns Traditional Medicine. She was also Leader of Government Resource Centre, the Business and Leader of the Vanuatu Branch of the Secretariat of the Commonwealth Parliamentarians Association. A journalist, Nuclear Free and writer and consultant, Ms. Lini is a founding member of the Independent Pacific Vanuatu National Council of Women. She established the Movement, with which Pacific Women's Resource Bureau of the Pacific she has been involved Community, which is responsible for women's programmes since 1975. A native of in 23 Pacific island countries, and founded the Tuvanuatu Vanuatu, she is also Vice Komiuniti, an indigenous leaders network that coordinates President of the the establishment of indigenous forms of governance based International Peace Bureau, representing the Pacific region. on natural law. From 1987 to 1998, Ms. Lini was the only woman in the For further information, please visit: www.pcrc.org.fj/ Vanuatu National Parliament, where she held portfolios as

21 Afaf Mahfouz is Society for International Development, the Arab Lawyers President of the Union and the Association of American University Conference of Non- Graduates. Ms. Mahfouz taught for many years at the uni- Governmental versity level and supervised research in Egypt by American Organizations in and French scholars. An activist for women's and human Consultative rights, she helped found several human rights and women's Relationship with the organizations in the Arab world. She has also been an ad- United Nations viser to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and (CONGO), which seeks Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations to strengthen participa- Population Fund (UNFPA) and was a member of the facili- tion by non-governmen- tating committee of the NGO Forum on Women at the tal organizations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. (NGOs) worldwide in the work of the United Nations. For further information, please visit: She is Chair of the International Psychoanalytical www.conferenceofhgos.org Association (IPA) Committee on the United Nations, the

Ambassador Arthur corporate and financial consulting organization, which pro- Mbanefo is Chairman vided services to the Government of Nigeria, the private sec- of the Group of 77 tor and several institutions and international organizations. Developing Countries He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management and and China, and Perma- served on its Council from 1979 to 1987, and was instru- nent Representative of mental in establishing the Association of Accountancy Nigeria to the United Bodies in West Africa in 1982, serving as its President in Nations. Over the years, 1987. In addition, Ambassador Mbanefo was also Pro- he has worked as a for- Chancellor and Chairman of the Council of Ahmadu Bello mal and informal ad- University (1990-1993), Obafemi Awolowo University viser to the Federal (1986-1990) and the University of Lagos (1984-1986). He is Government of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in and has chaired numerous national committees, commis- England and Wales and of the Institute of Chartered sions and investigative bodies. Accountants in Nigeria. Prior to taking up his appointment as Permanent For further information regarding the Group of 77, Representative in 1999, Ambassador Mbanefo ran his own please visit: www.g77.org

Yoriko Meguro is Alternate Representative of the Japanese Government to the Professor of Sociology forty-ninth and fiftieth sessions of the United Nations at Sophia University in General Assembly. Tokyo, Japan, where her Since joining the university's faculty in 1983, Professor research focuses on Meguro has been Chair of the Department of Sociology for social and family three separate terms, 1980-1984, 1986-1988 and 1991-1992. change and on gender She is a member of several academic societies and has roles and development. served on various national councils and research committees For the past four years, dealing with education, health and welfare, employment, she has been the repre- lifestyles, and overseas assistance primarily related to gender sentative of Japan to the and women. She has published extensively. United Nations Com- mission on the Status of Women. She has also served as

22 Betty Murungi is a Tribunal, and Kigali, Rwanda, to investigate procedures tak- member of the Inter- en by the ICTR to prosecute crimes of sexual violence national Federation of against women. Women Lawyers-Kenya Since 1997, Ms. Murungi has been FIDA's representa- Chapter (FIDA-Kenya). tive to the Preparatory Commission meetings on the A practising attorney International Criminal Court (ICC) at the United Nations, for over 16 years, Ms. under the auspices of the Coalition of NGOs for the ICC Murungi has worked (CICC). In addition, she participated in the Rome since March 1998 as an Diplomatic Conference as a member of the Women's Caucus investigator on gender- for Gender Justice. Ms. Murungi serves on numerous boards related crimes at the of local, regional and international NGOs. She is a member Inter-national Criminal of the Law Society of Kenya and of the International Bar Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for the International Centre for Association. Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & For further information regarding the International Democracy, Canada). As an investigator, she undertakes Federation of Women Lawyers, please visit: fact-finding missions to Arusha, Tanzania, the seat of the www.africaonline.co.ke/fida/

Kunii Naidoo is since the age of 15, Mr. Naidoo helped set up the African Secretary-General and National Congress as a legal political party after the release Chief Executive Officer of Nelson Mandela in 1990. of CIVICUS: World Mr. Naidoo initiated and led a wide range of education, Alliance for Citizen development and social justice programmes within South Participation, an interna- Africa, including the National Men's March against Violence tional alliance dedicated on Women and Children, and the National Campaign on to strengthening citizen Apartheid Debt. He is a member of the Commonwealth action and civil society Foundation's NGO Advisory Committee, and has served on worldwide. He was pre- the task team that wrote the new not-for-profit-organizations viously the founding law in South Africa. A Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Naidoo is also a Executive Director of researcher, journalist and editor. In 1999, he edited Civil the South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), the umbrella Society at the Millennium. agency for non-governmental organizations in that country, For further information regarding CIVICUS, please during which time he served on the task team to draft new visit: www.civicus.org NGO legislation. An activist in the anti-apartheid movement

Hibaaq Osman is lobbied the United States Congress and conducted extensive President and Chief media outreach and public awareness campaigns on behalf Executive Officer of the of the region. Centre for Strategic Ms. Osman also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center Initiatives of Women for Political Leadership and Participation at the University of (CSIW), a non-profit Maryland, College Park. In addition, she has engaged in organization based in research on a variety of issues, including political develop- Washington, D.C., ment, economic concerns, and other factors influencing the focusing on peace- transition to democracy. Currently, she is involved more building, human rights specifically in research in Sudan that examines constituen- and democracy issues in cies for peace and conflict resolution utilizing traditional and the Horn of Africa. In civil mechanisms from the grass roots to national and inter- this capacity, Ms. Osman has coordinated peace-building national levels. She has published numerous articles related actions for individuals and non-governmental organizations, to issues of women's rights in the Horn of Africa.

23 Ann Pettifor is Director tion effort around the annual summit meeting of the G-8. of the Jubilee 2000 Ms. Pettifor has also worked extensively with Jubilee 2000 Coalition in the United USA and has travelled to over 60 nations to support other Kingdom and co- Jubilee 2000 coalitions. founder of the interna- Ms. Pettifor has served with the Debt Crisis Network, an tional Jubilee 2000 alliance of non-governmental organizations in the United movement. Since 1996, Kingdom, and was an adviser to leading figures of the Ms. Pettifor has helped British Labour Party and to several chief executives in the mobilize millions of energy, retail and property sectors. Ms. Pettifor has pub- people worldwide in lished a number of books related to international debt. support of the call for For further information regarding Jubilee 2000 UK, debt cancellation for the please visit: www.jubilee2000uk.org world's poorest countries. In 1998, she led a group of more than 70,000 people in Birmingham, England, in a mobiliza-

Elisabeth Rehn has (1990 to 1995), Member of the Finnish Parliament (1979 to served at the level of 1995) and Member of the European Parliament (1995 to Under-Secretary- 1996) and was a candidate in Finland's Presidential election General at the United in 1994. Nations as the Special Ms. Rehn has had extensive involvement in humanita- Representative of the rian affairs and human rights for over 15 years. From 1984 Secretary-General in to 1988, she was Vice-Chairman of the Finnish Red Cross Bosnia and Herzegovina and participated in a Red Cross Humanitarian Mission to from 1998 to 1999. Ethiopia in 1984. She is currently a Member of the OECD From 1995to 1998, she Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Chairman of Naisten was the United Nations Valmiusliitto, the Finnish Association for Education and Special Rapporteur for Training of Women in Crisis Prevention, and member of the the Situation of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, International Steering Committee that followed up the the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of results of the "Engendering the Peace Process" conference Yugoslavia. She is a former Minister of Defence of Finland in Jerusalem, Israel.

Indira RosenthaJ is a Evidence and the Elements of Crimes. In addition, she is an senior legal officer with advocate for ratification of the Statute in Central and the Australian Federal Eastern Europe, the Pacific and Southern Africa. She is cur- Attorney-General's rently writing a manual on national implementation of the Department. She is cur- Rome Statute for use by government officials. rently on leave from the In the Attorney-General's Department, Ms. Rosenthal Department to work as worked as a senior legal officer advising on the development Counsel to Human of domestic human rights protection, on Australia's interna- Rights Watch on inter- tional human rights obligations and on public international national justice matters, law issues in general. She has represented Australia at sev- particularly the estab- eral international treaty negotiations and was a member of lishment of the Inter- the Australian delegation to the Rome Diplomatic national Criminal Court (ICC). In that capacity, she has par- Conference of 1998. ticipated as an NGO representative at the ICC Preparatory For further information regarding Human Rights Watch,. Commission meetings on the Rules of Procedure and please visit: www.hrw.org

24 Elaine Valdov is Chair- Ms. Valdov is a peace and human rights activist, conflict person of the NGO/DPI resolution specialist and psychotherapist. She lectures inter- Executive Committee at nationally and is known for her work in developing interna- the United Nations, as tional peace initiatives and promoting the International well as a member of the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Executive Steering Children of the World. She was also the Director of the Committee and Vice- Campaign for a Culture of Peace, part of the United Nations Chair of the Millennium World Week of Peace. Ms. Valdov has over 25 years' experi- Forum. She is an NGO ence as a psychotherapist in private practice and as a clini- representative to the cian and director of mental health programmes. She has also United Nations for the been a professor of psychology and a teacher of philosophy International Institute and music. for Integral Human Sciences, a past Chair of the NGO For further information regarding the NGO/DPI Commit-tee on the University for Peace and Co-Convenor of Executive Committee, please visit: the Seoul International Conference of NGOs. www.ngoexecom.org/

Anne Walker is the initiatives of women in the developing world, and has Executive Director of participated in four United Nations Conferences on Women the International and four parallel NGO Forums, from 1975 (Mexico City) to Women's Tribune Centre 1995 (Beijing). (IWTC), a position she A feminist activist, writer and photographer, Ms. Walker has held since 1976. In has served on many boards and management committees that capacity, she works that work on behalf of women's rights, economic justice, collaboratively with media, peace and sustainable development issues. Currently, women's groups in she is a member of the Management Committee of SEEDS, Africa, Asia, Latin a research, writing and editing group that publishes case America, the Caribbean, studies of women's self-help economic projects in the global the Middle East and the South. Pacific on issues and concerns relating to women's human For further information regarding the International rights, economic and social justice, peace and sustainable Women's Tribune Centre, please visit: development. She also spearheads IWTC's efforts to support http://www.igc.org/beijing/ngo/iwtc.html

25 Conference Coordinators

Therese Gastaut has nities from 1975 to 1983 and later as Director of the United been the Director of the Nations Information Service at Geneva from 1984 to 1989. Public Affairs Division From 1990 to 1992 she was seconded to the World of the Department of Health Organization as Manager of its information pro- Public Information gramme. From 1993 until her current assignment, she was (DPI) since September Director of the Information Service at Geneva. Also from 1999. Having joined the 1993 to 1996, Ms. Gastaut was Spokeswoman for the Secretariat of the Secretary-General based at Geneva. United Nations in 1967 and DPI in 1975, Ms. Gastaut served as Director of the United Nations Information Centre for Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Liaison Office with the European commu-

Lyutha Al-Mughairy is was extensively involved with UN missions in Ethiopia, Chief of the Public Lesotho, Eritrea and Sierra Leone. Prior to joining the Liaison Service in the United Nations in 1979, Ms. Al-Mughairy was the founding United Nations Director of English Language Radio and television stations Department of Public in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as well as in her native Information, where she Oman. oversees public outreach of the Department, including to non- governmental organiza- tions. Ms. Al-Mughairy previously served as Deputy Director of the Electoral Assistance Division in the UN Department of Political Affairs from 1992 to 1995, and

Paul Hoeffel assumed was editor of Development Fonmt, the UN system publica- his post as Chief of the tion on economic and social development. Prior to joining NGO Section of the the UN, Mr. Hoeffel worked as a journalist in Latin America United Nations and the United States for such publications as Tlie Boston Department of Public Globe, Tfie New York Times and Newsweek International. Information (DPI) in For further information regarding the DPI/NGO Section, April 1999. Over the please visit: www.un.org/dpi/ngosection past decade, he has held several positions in DPI, including Senior Editor in the Editorial Section. In 1993, Mr. Hoeffel was DPFs Programme Manager for the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, working closely with international media and NGOs. From 1989 to 1993, he

26 Midday NGO Workshops

Monday, 28 August 2000 1.15 p.m.-2.45 p.m.

Globalization of Militarism Sponsored by Hague Appeal for Peace Conference Room 4

Addressing Global Environmental Crises Sponsored by the Open Center of New York Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium

Health, Environment and Communication Sponsored by the World Information Transfer Conference Room A

Promoting the Global Compact in the Year 2000 Sponsored by the Resource Center for the United Nations, San Francisco Conference Room C

Human Rights: A Foundation for the Environment and Sustainable Development Conference Room D

Economy of Communion Sponsored by the New Humanity Conference Room 6

Solidarity with Africa: A Call for More Action Sponsored by the International Club for Peace Research Church Center Chapel

Women, Peace and the Security Council Sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Church Center—2nd Floor Conference Room

Humanitarian Intervention: Roles for Civil Society Building Bridges through Global Peace Sponsored by the International Association of Sufism Church Center—8th Floor Conference Room

27 Tuesday, 29 August 2000 1.15 p.m.-2.45 p.m.

Civil Society and the New Democratic Diplomacy Sponsored by Hague Appeal for Peace Conference Room 4

Global Community: The Earth and Her Children Sponsored by the Center for International Cooperation Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium

Women and Communication Sponsored by the World Information Transfer Conference Room A

New Visions, New Structures: Building on Our Values Sponsored by the Values Caucus Conference Room C

Actions to Overcome the Limits to Global Solidarity Sponsored by Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR) Conference Room D

Sharing Goals for Economic and Social Development Sponsored by the Association for World Citizens (AWC) Conference Room 6

Micro-Finance in Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Sponsored by the Trickle-Up Organization Church Center—2nd Floor Conference Room

Global Meeting of Generations Church Center—8th Floor Conference Room

Ending Violence against Women: The Way to Global Peace and Cooperation Church Center Chapel

Preventing Global Violence Church Center—11th Floor Conference Room

International Cooperation, Children and Mass Media Sponsored by Comunicacion Cultural Church Center—10th Floor Conference Room

28 Wednesday, 30 August 2000 1.15 p.m.-2.45 p.m.

United Nations Affiliation Sponsored by the DPI/NGO Section Conference Room 4

Recognizing the Indigenous Tradition and Perspective as a Way to Global Peace and Cooperation Sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and Tribal Link Foundation Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium

Productive Ageing Sponsored by the Association of Former International Civil Servants (AFICS) Conference Room A

Alternatives to Military Intervention: New Paths to Peace Sponsored by Peace Action International Conference Room C

Eco-villages: A Model for Sustainable Living and Global Solidarity Sponsored by the Findhorn Foundation Eco-Village Project Conference Room 6

The People's Assembly in Action: Linking the Local to the Global in the New Democratic Diplomacy Sponsored by MPAN Church Center—8th Floor Conference Room

Networking for the Globalization of Peace Sponsored by Pathways to Peace Church Center—10th Floor Conference Room

United Nations and Youth Church Center—11th Floor Conference Room

Human Rights: The Foundation for Global Solidarity Sponsored by the Human Rights Caucus Church Center—2nd Floor Conference Room

Strengthening the United Nations General Assembly: The Binding Triad System for Global Decision-making Sponsored by the Center for War/Peace Studies Church Center Chapel

29 53rd Annual DPI/NGO Conference Planning Committee

Conference Chair: Dianne Dillon-Ridgley World Young Women's Christian Association Conference Coordinators: Therese Gastaut Director, Public Affairs Division Department of Public Information (DPI) Lyutha Al-Mughairy Chief, Public Liaison Service, DPI Paul Hoeffel Chief, NGO Section, DPI Helene Hoedl Information Officer, NGO Section, DPI Fund-raising Chair: Sherrill Kazan Alvarez de Toledo Academia Mexicana de Derecho Internacional Media Chair: Eileen Gallagher-Labiner International Federation for Home Economics Midday NGO Workshops Chair: Charmaine Crockett Economists for Allied Arms Reduction Reception Chair: Joan Levy World Information Transfer Registration Chair: Arlette Leoncavallo Association of Arab-American University Graduates

Other Conference Planning Committee Members

Valentine Berberian Armenian Relief Society, inc. Kay Greene International Council of Psychologists Narelle Townsend American Planning Association Elaine Valdov The International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Cora Weiss Hague Appeal for Peace Anne Zanes Peace Links

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Lyutha Al-Mughairy, Chief, Public Liaison Service

Non-Governmental Organizations Section Paul Hoeffel, Chief Elizabeth Chomiak Luis Delgadillo Samar Dimes Yvonne Duncan Helene Hoedl Teddy Keya Christina Lochow Holly Tyson

Interns and Volunteers of the NGO Section Ursula Baertl Robin Bose Patricia Cressot Desiree De Malleray Ann Farragher Tamara Heimur Rosie Herman Maria Holmgren Kyra Lit Maria Norlin Sara Ostrom Haya Shubailat Maria Louisa Stokvis Bettina Wolf Jae-SookYoo

31 Service de la liaison avec le public/Departement de I'information

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Section des organisations non gouvernementales : Paul Hoeffel, chef Elizabeth Chomiak Luis Delgadillo Samar Dimes Yvonne Duncan Helene Hoedl Teddy Keya Christina Lochow Holly Tyson

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Je suis tres heureux que la Conference DPI/ONG de cette annee, intitulee « Solidarite mondiale : le chemin vers la paix et la cooperation Internationale», soit axee sur des questions qui sont au cceur d'une periode cruciale pour ['Organisation des Nations Unies. Cette annee du millenaire nous a deja donne plusieurs occasions de consolider les partenariats necessaires pour accomplir la mission de 1'ONU, aujourd'hui et dans les annees a venir. Au mois d'avril, j'ai soumis a 1'Assemblee generate mon rapport du millenaire qui a pour titre « Nous, les peuples : le role des Nations Unies au XXIe siecle », dans lequel je decris ma vision de 1'avenir de I'Organisation. Comme beaucoup de lecteurs 1'ont remarque, ce titre prete a la societe civile un role central dans notre avenir. C'est la, en effet, j'en suis convaincu, la direction que nous devons prendre. Au mois de mai, le Forum du millenaire a reuni pendant cinq jours des representants de la societe civile au Siege de 1'ONU. La Declaration et le Programme d'action qui ont ete adoptes ont confirme que nous partageons la meme vision, notamment avec la communaute des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), dont plus de 3 000 travaillent en etroite liaison avec nous au Siege, ainsi qu'avec 1'ensemble du systeme des Nations Unies. J'espere que pendant 1'Assemblee du millenaire, qui s'ouvrira en septembre, les Etats Membres examineront attentivement les nombreuses recommandations constructives faites par le Forum. La cinquante-troisieme Conference annuelle DPI/ONG, qui fait partie integrante du processus du millenaire, jette un pont entre les grandes reunions d'ONG des deux demieres annees et le Sommet du millenaire, qui reunira les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement. Dans le programme qui suit, vous verrez que la Conference poursuivra le debat actif et souvent brulant sur le role que les organisations de la societe civile—et le secteur prive—peuvent jouer dans les processus de decision au niveau international. Tout au long de ces dernieres annees, j'ai fait savoir clairement, au nom de 1'ONU, que nous souhaitons forger de nouveaux partenariats avec la societe civile et le secteur prive. Ces propositions constituent un defi majeur pour les Etats Membres comme pour les ONG. En outre, Pintegration de ces nouveaux partenaires dans notre travail souleve des preoccupations nombreuses et legitimes. Nous avons maintenant depasse le stade des simples promesses de partenariat pour aborder le terrain nettement plus ardu de la mise en osuvre. Mais il ne fait aucun doute dans mon esprit que la societe civile peut faire toute la difference dans le succes de nos efforts. La Conference DPI/ONG de cette annee nous fera certainement avancer dans ce processus permanent de consultation et de comprehension mutuelle. Je vous souhaite a tous des deliberations fructueuses.

Kofi A. Annan Nations Unies 53e Conference annuelle DPI/ONG La solidarite mondiale: Le chemin vers la paix et la cooperation Internationale

28-30 aout 2000 Siege de I'Organisation des Nations Unies, New York

Le theme de la Conference, cette annee, « Solidarite mondiale : le chemin vers la paix et la cooperation Internationale », donnera 1'occasion aux representants des organisations non gouvernementales, du systeme des Nations Unies et des gouvernements d'explorer les moyens par lesquels la societe civile peut travailler avec I'Organisation des Nations Unies et les gouvernements pour mettre en oeuvre les plans qui ont etc arretes au cours des grandes conferences des Nations Unies et des organisations non gouvernementales organisees pendant les annees 90. Les conferences mondiales organisees par I'Organisation des Nations Unies au cours des annees 90 ont negocie un ensemble de plans d'action remarquablement coherents pour assurer le developpement durable pour tous les peuples au cours des decennies a venir. Parallelement, la multiplication des organisations non gouvernementales, stimulee en partie par le processus de mondialisation a multiples facettes, a permis d'organiser, au cours des cinq dernieres annees, de puissantes campagnes de la societe civile. Celles-ci ont notamment porte sur 1'interdiction des mines terrestres, la creation d'une Cour penale internationale, 1'annulation de la dette ecrasante de certains pays et la rectification des aspects negatifs de 1'architecture financiere mondiale actuelle. La Conference se penchera sur les campagnes en cours et explorera de nouveaux domaines ou des progres pourront etre accomplis. Qu'est-ce qui fait le succes d'une campagne ? Comment peut-on unifier les preoccupations intersectorielles ? Comment peut-on reproduire les experiences reussies d'un pays a 1'autre ? Comment fixons-nous les priorites ? Quel type de relations de travail entre les organisations non gouvernementales, I'Organisation des Nations Unies et les gouvernements permettra d'assurer un succes durable ? Outre les differentes declarations liminaires et allocutions de cloture, la Conference, qui durera rrois jours, organisera cinq groupes de reflexion qui se reuniront en seances plenieres, le matin et 1'apres-midi, et dont les travaux seront axes sur les meilleures pratiques, les enseignements tires de 1'experience recente et Fidentification de nouvelles campagnes organisees sur une base elargie et regroupant des questions multiples. Elle examinera egalement les nombreux moyens par lesquels la societe civile peut participer aux processus de decision, aux niveaux national et international, qui influent partout sur le bien-etre des populations. Elle explorera aussi le role de la societe civile dans la formulation et 1'application des politiques, eu egard a I'augmentation des demandes d'intervention humanitaire dans les zones de conflit. Ces groupes de reflexion incluront des responsables des gouvernements et de I'Organisation des Nations Unies de haut niveau et des representants de la societe civile, y compris des organisations non gouvememetales, du secteur prive, du milieu universitaire et des medias. La cinquante-troisieme Conference annuelle est organisee par le Departement de 1'information du Secretariat de I'Organisation des Nations Unies en cooperation avec le Comite executif des organisations non gouvernementales associees au Departement de 1'information. Calendrier de la Conference Lundi 28 aout 2000

La seance d'ouverture aura lieu dans la salle de 1'Assemblee generale. Toutes les seances suivantes se derouleront dans la salle de conference n° 4. Des seances de travail se tiendront tous les jours de 13 h 15 a 14 h 45 dans diverses salles de conference. 8 heures-9 h 45 L'inscription des delegations se fera a la salle des pas perdus situee a 1'entree des visiteurs du Siege de PONU (46e rue et lre avenue).

Seance d'ouverture 10heures-12h30 Salle de 1'Assemblee generale Declaration de bienvenue : Kensaku Hogen, secretaire general adjoint a la communication et a I'lnformation, Organisation des Nations Unies

Allocutions : Theo-Ben Gurirab, president de la cinquante-quatrieme session de 1'Assemblee generale Kofi Annan, secretaire general de 1'Organisation des Nations Unies

Declarations liminaires: Hanna Suchocka, membre du Parlement, Pologne Jaime Lerner, gouverneur de 1'Etat de Parana, Bresil Hanan Ashrawi, secretaire generale, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy Declarations de bienvenue des ONG : Elaine Valdov, presidente du Comite executif Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, presidente du Comite de planification des organisations non gouvernementales Afaf Mahfouz, presidente de la Conference des organisations non gouvernementales dotees du statut consultatif 13 h 15-14 h 45 Seances de travail (heure du dejeuner) [voir calendrier des seances dans la version anglaise aux pages 27 a 29] Calendrier de la Conference Lundi 28 aout 2000

Seance de 1'apres-midi 15heures-17h30 Salle de conference n° 4

Les annees 90: agir plutot que promettre Ce groupe de reflexion se penchera sur la mise en oeuvre des plans d'action des grandes conferences des Nations Unies et des organisations non gouvernementales organisees au cours des annees 90. Les taches sont enormes, diverses et toutes liees entre elles. II incombe a present aux organisations non gouvernementales de suivre la mise en ceuvre de ces plans d'action et de determiner les moyens par lesquels elles peuvent rravailler en partenariat avec 1'Organisation des Nations Unies et les gouvernements pour assurer le developpement durable pour tous. Le groupe de reflexion discute de la facon dont les organisations non gouvernementales peuvent travailler dans le cadre de campagnes intersectorielles de la societe civile pour mobiliser la volonte politique et les ressources financieres necessaires. Comment fixer les priorites pour ces campagnes et comment mener celles-ci ? Animateur: Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, representant permanent du Bangladesh aupres de 1'Organisation des Nations Unies Intervenants : Jacques Bugnicourt, secretaire executif, Environnement et developpement du tiers-monde (enda) Nitin Desai, secretaire general adjoint aux affaires economiques et sociales, Organisation des Nations Unies Koichiro Matsuura, directeur general, Organisation des Nations Unies pour 1'education, la science et la culture Ann Pettifor, directrice, Coalition jubilee 2000 Royaume-Uni (Jubilee 2000 Coalition UK) Anne Walker, directrice, International Women's Tribune Centre Questions (formulees par ecrit)-reponses Calendrier de la Conference Mardi 29 aout 2000

Reunion du Comite executif des organisations non gouvernementales associees an Departement de Hnformation 9 heures-10 heures Salle de conference n° 4 Seance du matin 10heures-12h30 Salle de conference n° 4 La nouvelle diplomatic democratique : la societe civile en tant que partenaire de ('Organisation des Nations Unies et des gouvernements Ce groupe de reflexion developpe 1'application concrete d'une nouvelle diplomatic democratique, a savoir le partenariat pratique entre les gouvernements, 1'Organisation des Nations Unies et la societe civile pour negocier des changements sociaux propres a ameliorer la condition humaine. Le succes dans ce domaine passe par une collaboration etroite entre ces trois acteurs. La nouvelle diplomatic democratique reconnait que, lorsque les gouvernements negocient seuls les problemes et les conflits, les voix de la societe civile sont rarement entendues et les resultats souhaites ne sont pas souvent obtenus. Au cours de ces dernieres annees, il a ete demontre que les negotiations internationales peuvent etre grandement facilities lorsqu'on y associe des partenaires de la societe civile. Par exemple, 1'avis consultatif sur Pillegalite des armes nucleaires prononce par la Cour internationale de Justice resulte du fait que la societe civile a porte la question des armes nucleaires au niveau des gouvernements. On a reussi a conclure la Convention sur F interdiction des mines antipersonnel parce que des organisations de la societe civile ont travaille avec des gouvernements qui partagent la meme opinion et avec 1'Organisation des Nations Unies. C'est egalement la societe civile qui s'est chargee de mobiliser la volonte politique ayant abouti a Fetablissement du Statut de Rome sur la Cour penale internationale. Animateur: Jayantha Dhanapala, secretaire general adjoint aux affaires de desarmement, Organisation des Nations Unies Intervenants : Alejandro Bendana, directeur, Centre d'etudes internationales Betty Murungi, membre, International Federation of Women Lawyers—Kenya Chapter Indira Rosenthal, avocat-conseil, Human Rights Watch Pierre Schori, representant permanent de la Suede aupres de 1'Organisation des Nations Unies Questions (formulees par ecrit)-reponses

13 h 15-14 h 45 Seances de travail (heure du dejeuner) [voir calendrier des seances dans la version anglaise aux pages 27 a 29] Calendrier de la Conference Mardi 29 aout 2000

Seance de Papres-midi 15heures-17h30 Salle de conference n° 4 Intervention humanitaire: role de la societe civile Ce groupe de reflexion se penchera sur la politique d'intervention humanitaire dans ses rapports avec les organisations non gouvernementales et leur interaction avec les organes de decision de la communaute Inter- nationale, en particulier 1'Organisation des Nations Unies. En Iraq, au Kosovo et dans d'autres zones de conflit, la communaute internationale est intervenue militairement face a des menaces ou des situations de violations massives des droits de 1'homme dans le contexte de la continuelle redefination de la souverainete nationale. Autant les partisans que les opposants d'un tel droit d'intervention humanitaire offrent de solides arguments. D'aucuns reconnaissent que la societe civile devrait jouer un plus grand role en matiere d'alerte rapide et de diplomatic preventive pour eviter les violations massives des droits de 1'homme et les interventions. Certains font valoir que, en cas d'intervention, la societe civile doit jouer un plus grand role dans le processus de prise de deci- sions concernant 1'intervention et sesconsequences. Le debat est axe sur les moyens de garantir que les decisions relatives a 1'intervention humanitaire soient prises d'une maniere homogene et transparente et de determiner les moyens par lesquels les organisations non gouvernementales peuvent aider a assurer I'efficacite de ces mesures. Animatrice: Elisabeth Rehn, ancienne representante du Secretaire general de I'Organisation des Nations Unies en Bosnie-Herzegovine Intervenants: Holly Burkhalter, directrice de la sensibilisation, Medecins pour les droits de rhomme (Physicians for Human Rights) Patricia Durrant, representante permanente de la Jamai'que aupres de I'Organisation des Nations Unies William Aurelien Eteki Mboumoua, president de la Croix-Rouge camerounaise Hibaaq Osman, presidente, Centre des initiatives strategiques pour les femmes (Centre for the Strategic Initiatives of Women) Questions (formulees par ecrit)-reponses Reception (strictement sur invitation) 18 h 30-21 h 30 Reception organisee par le Comite executif des organisations non gouvernementales associees au Departement de rinformation et coparrainee par CeleXx Corporation et la mission permanente de la Finlande aupres de FOrganisation des Nations Unies. Lieu : Cipriani, 110 East 42e rue (entre les avenues Lexington et Park) Le secretaire general M. Kofi Annan et Mme Nane Annan, vice-secretaire generate Mme Louise Frechette, le president de la 54e session de 1'Assemblee generate M. Theo-Ben Gurirab et le president designe de la 55e session de 1'Assemblee generate M. Harri Holkeri font partie des personnalites specialement invitees. Calendrier de la Conference Mercredi 30 aout 2000

Mise a jour du resultat du Forum du millenaire 9 heures-10 heures Techeste Ahderom, president, Forum du millenaire Salle de conference n° 4 Seance du matin : 10heures-12h30 Salle de conference n° 4

Les meilleures pratiques : promouvoir notre programme commun Apres maints tatonnements, de nombreux programmes de developpement et initiatives de la societe civile ont produit les resultats souhaites : des progres reels ont ete accomplis sur la voie du developpement durable et de la securite fondee sur le respect des droits de rhomme. Qu'est-ce qui est efficace ? Quels sont les elements communs aux campagnes organisees sur les themes de 1'elimination des mines terrestres ou de 1'annulation de la dette ? Quels sont les facteurs qui contribuent au succes des negotiations sur le rechauffe- ment de la planete et d'autres questions de droit international ? Quels sont les elements des politiques du developpement qui entrament des changements positifs axes sur les populations dans les zones rurales ? Quelles sont les politiques permettant aux societes multiethniques de surmonter les conflits fratricides ? Quelles sont les mesures qui permettent a un quartier d'avoir de 1'eau potable ou a des agriculteurs de resoudre pacifiquement un differend foncier ? Qu'est-ce qui permet aux femmes de participer a la prise de decisions communautaire pour la premiere fois ? Quelles sont les meilleures pratiques du secteur prive qui ont ete efTicaces dans la promotion du developpement durable ? Animatrice : Yoriko Meguro, professeur au Departement de sociologie, Universite de Sophia Participants : Arnold Hiatt, president, Business for Social Responsibility Mats Karlsson, vice-president pour les affaires exterieures et les affaires relatives aux Nations Unies, Banque mondiale Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, directrice, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre Kumi Naidoo, secretaire general, CIVICUS : World Alliance for Citizen Participation Questions (formulees par ecrit)-reponses

13 h 15-14 h 45 Seances de travail (heure du dejeuner) [voir calendrier des seances dans la version anglaise aux pages 27 a 29] Calendrier de la Conference Mercredi 30 aout 2000

Seance de 1'apres-midi: 15heures-16h30 Salle de conference n° 4

Une vision economique qui reussit: un dialogue La raise en oeuvre des plans d'action des annees 90 exige des economies qui soutiennent et favorisent le developpement durable a 1'echelle mondiale. Les principes economiques actuels n'ont pas ete capables d'eliminer la pauvrete; en effet,certains affirment qu'ils favorisent souvent les conflits et exigent un niveau de croissance et de developpement qui finira par detruire la planete. Cette contradiction fondamentale doit etre resolue si Ton veut que les campagnes de la societe civile produisent des effets autres que symboliques. La creativite, la vision et la volonte politique necessaires pour resoudre convenablement cette contradiction ont jusqu'a present fait defaut; mais une nouvelle prise de conscience et la vitalite des mouvements de la societe civile au niveau mondial pourraient offrir 1'occasion de trouver des solutions efficaces au cours des annees a venir. Le groupe de reflexion menera un debat dynamique sur les options et explorera les initiatives economiques qui pourraient etre prises aux niveaux local, national, regional et international pour reorienter les politiques vers un developpement economique equitable et durable. Comment combler le fosse apparem- ment sans fond qui separe le Nord du Sud ? Comment gerer les aspects indesirables de la mondialisation ?

Animatrice : Jacqueline Grapin, presidente, Institut europeen

Participants: Carlos Fortin, vice-secretaire general, Conference des Nations Unies sur le commerce et le developpement (invite) Khadija Haq, presidente, Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre Arthur Mbanefo, president, Groupe des 77 pays en developpement et de la Chine (Group of 77 Developing countries and China)

Questions (formulees par ecrit)-reponses

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Seance de cloture : 16 h 30-17 h 30 Salle de conference n° 4

Nouvelles responsabilites pour la societe civile President: Kensaku Hogen, secretaire general adjoint a la communication et a 1'information, Organisation des Nations Unies Intervenants : Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President de 1'Algerie Malia Graver, Kupuna pour le Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center Ralph Nader, fondateur, Public Citizen

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Presidente : Dianne Dillon-Ridgley Alliance mondiale des unions chretiennes feminines Coordonnateurs de la Conference Therese Gastaut Directrice de la Division des relations publiques Departement de 1'information du Secretariat de 1'ONU Lyutha Al-Mughairy Chef du Service de la liaison avec le public Departement de 1'information du Secretariat de roNu Paul Hoeffel Chef de la Section des organisations non gouvernementales, Departement de Pinformation du Secretariat de 1'ONU Helene Hoedl Fonctionnaire de 1'information, Section des organisations non gouvernementales, Departement de rinformation du Secretariat de 1'ONU Responsable de la collecte de fonds : Sherrill Kazan Alvarez de Toledo Academia Mexicana de Derecho Internacional Responsable de la presse : Eileen Gallagher-Labiner International Federation for Home Economics Presidente des seances de travail Charmaine Crockett (heure du dejeuner): Economists For Allied Anns Reduction Presidente de la reception : Joan Levy World Information Transfer Coordinatrice responsable de Arlette Leoncavallo 1'inscription des participants: Association of Arab-American University Graduates Autres membres du Comite de planification Valentine Berberian Armenian Relief Society, inc. Kay Greene International Council of Psychologists Narelle Townsend American Planning Association Elaine Valdov The International Institute of Integral Human Services Cora Weiss Hague Appeal for Peace Anne Zanes Peace Links

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Lyutha Al-Mughairy, chef, Service de la liaison avec le public

Section des organisations non gouvernementales : Paul Hoeffel, chef Elizabeth Chomiak Luis Delgadillo Samar Dimes Yvonne Duncan Helene Hoedl Teddy Keya Christina Lochow Holly Tyson

Stagiaires et volontaires Ursula Baertl Robin Bose Patricia Cressot Desiree de Malleray Ann Farragher Tamara Heimur Rosie Herman Maria Holmgren Kyra Lit Maria Norlin Sara Ostrom Haya Shubailat Maria Louisa Stokvis BettinaWolf Jae-SookYoo

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