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South Indian Regional Consultative Meeting
on UN Milleneum Development Goals (MDGs)
On March 30th the Mithra Foundation sponsored a one-day meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at ISI Bangalore. Seventeen leaders from Nadu and Kerala worked together to analyze with facts and figures the Indian Government's commitment to fulfilling these eight development goals that have been laid out by the United Nations. (Read paper)
Raphael Bates and Solen Gratiet
at the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland, 2008
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
Solen Gratiet's Report on
The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, March, 2008
"…despite all the discussions and resolutions made, torture, genocide, rape, forced marriages, disappearances, and many other violations of people's basic rights will continue all over the world.…However, the importance of this event should not be underestimated … the UN Human Rights Council has enormous symbolic value, representing a mobilisation of energy for change for the better in many domains."
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Solen Gratiet's report – English (PDF)
La rapport de Solen Gratiet – français (PDF)
God with an action plan
Raphael Bate's report on
the same UN Human Right Council meeting
"The United Nations declaration of Human rights was a response against the horrors of world war two. A Frenchman, Rene Cassin, authored the declaration of the universal rights of man on 10 December 1948 in Geneva."
To me the UN is like God with an action plan, a clip board, microscope and democracy. By looking, listening, communicating, measuring, computing, analysing , guidelines are produced and hopefully carried out and then monitored. Compassion for all attempted democratically! ... I think that a fully human life force is the goal of the UN.
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Moving from Consultation to Partnership in Promoting
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE AT ALL LEVELS
Report on the General Assembly of "CONGO", Dec. 2007
Katherine Carré reports on the General Assembly of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in consultative relationship with the UN Economic and Social Council (CONGO for short) held on 5-7 December 2007
There were two main discussion topics. The first on peace and human security; gender equality and gender justice; human development and climate change; human rights. The second on Civil Society : NGO solidarity with victims of violence; NGO role in sharing and sustaining resources; NGO promoting vision and responsibly.
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CONGO DEVELOPMENT FORUM REPORT (July, 2007
attended by Raphael Bate (SD France) and Joe Rosario (SD India)
The objectives of the Development Forum 2007 were to contribute to Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) deliberations and decisions at their session of the High Level Segment meeting following the forum.
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Rapport de Raphel Bate en français (HTML) (PDF)
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REPORT ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (June, 2007)
by Katherine Carré
The UN Human Rights Council held its fifth session in Geneva from 11th to 18th June 2007 and has successfully survived its year of transformation and institution building, but not without pains...
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REPORT ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (April, 2007)
by Katherine Carré
As representative of SDI/WSA to the UN Geneva, I attended some of the meetings of the Human Rights Council (HRC), and have produced a patchwork of summarized events and meetings with a few remarks for your information...
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CONFERENCE BY AIDE FEDERATION ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: How civil society can overcome obstacles to reaching these goals (May, 2006)
By Katherine Carré, SDI UN Representative, Geneva
It was a very interesting conference organized by this NGO which focuses on Africa and more specifically on those African countries from which emigration to France is the greatest, i.e. Mali, Senegal and Madagascar.
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LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES BRIEFING
By Amalia Dickie, United Nations Vienna
Briefing on the work of Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, UN Under-Secretary General, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked and Small Island Developing States.
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WORKING GROUP REPORT
The former SDI chair, Wilbert Verheyen, attended the UN Working Group on Indigenous Peoples of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Geneva, 21st annual session, 21 to 25 July 2003.
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Indigenous Peoples Working Group Report (PDF 132k)
REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
Four SDI delegates attended the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2002. Hardin Tibbs, a global business consultant from the UK, wrote this report.
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Report on Sustainable Development Conference (PDF 80k)
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