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The In this
issue: Postponement of CONGO's Board Meeting and Launch of CONGO's
Asia Regional Committee Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: The
Rights of the Poor Integrated Civil Society Organization System Growing together: Youth and the work of the United Nations
International Christmas, Celebration of Peace Citizens' Advice Services on the Exercise of European Citizenship
Rights New
Dates of
After consultation with CONGO Board members, Liberato C.
Bautista, CONGO President, announced that CONGO's next Board meeting
and the launch of CONGO's Asia Regional Committee would take place
from 23 to 25 February 2009 in Pathumthani, Thailand. The meeting
had originally been scheduled to take place on the premises of the
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand on 14 and 15 December
2008, followed by the launch of CONGO's Asia Regional Committee
on 16 December 2008.With the approval of CONGO's Board, the forthcoming
Board meeting will encompass the postponed second meeting of 2008
and the first meeting of 2009. The agenda of the postponed meeting
and other agenda items recently brought to our attention will be
provided in a consolidated outline. Further
details, including a comprehensive statement by CONGO Civil Society Development Forum 2009 - Implementing the Internationally Agreed Goals and Commitments in regard to Global Public Health, 2- 4 July 2009, Geneva CONGO*
is pleased to announce that its Civil Society Development Forum
(CSDF) 2009 is scheduled from 2 to 4 July 2009 in Geneva. It will
be held back-to-back with ECOSOC's High-Level Segment (6 -- 10 July
2009), which will focus in 2009 on the theme "Implementing the Internationally
Agreed Goals and Commitments in regard to Global Public Health".
More information
is available on CONGO’s
website. Information
about ECOSOC and its Substantive Sessions is available here www.un.org. A UN-NGO-IRENE
Best Practices Network on Global Public Health is available here
www.esango.un.org. The Underside of Human Rights -- Commentary by CONGO's President On the
occasion of the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, a commentary by CONGO's President, Liberato C. Bautista,
entitled "The Underside of Human Rights", is now available on CONGO's
website. Read this
commentary here
CONGO’s website. Events and Announcements: Reconvening
of the Second Part of the 6^th Session of the Intergovernmental
Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action -- One-Day Meeting, 18 December 2008, Geneva.A
Note Verbale from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights advised that the second part of the 6^th Session of the "Intergovernmental
Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action" will take place on 18 December 2008 at
10:00 Hours in Conference Room XXI at the Palais des Nations in
Geneva. Draft Guiding Principles on
Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: The Rights of the Poor -- Seminar,
27 -- 28 January 2009, Geneva More
information will be available here.
Integrated Civil Society
Organization System -- New UN/DESA Civil Society Participation Database
The UN
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) launched a new
online civil society participation database entitled "Integrated
Civil Society Organization System". It provides the possibility
of "online registration for CSOs, facilitates the application procedure
for consultative status with ECOSOC and assists accredited NGOs
in submitting quadrennial reports in designating representatives
to the UN".The database contains information on more than 12'000
organisations and their activities, meeting participation and accreditation
status in the fields of sustainable and social development, advancement
of women, financing for development, forest and public administration.
Find out
more about this database here. Growing together: Youth and the Work of the United Nations -- UN/DESA Publications available online A new
publication was issued by the UN Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (UN/DESA), entitled "Growing together: Youth and the Work
of the United Nations". This document provides an assessment of
how effectively the UN system is responding to development challenges
and attempts to help identify any existing gaps in the present approach
by the UN.Along with more information about the youth agenda of
the UN, the aforementioned publication can be found here. International Christmas,
Celebration of Peace -- Christmas Celebration, 21 December 2008,
Vienna The Federation
for World Peace (Föderation für Weltfrieden) is organising the event
"International Christmas, Celebration of peace" on 21 December 2008
at 17:00 hours at Seidengasse 28 in Vienna. More information
about this event, including registration procedures, is availablehere World Water Week -- Call for Workshop Abstracts and Seminar-cum-Side-Event Proposals, 16 -- 22 August 2009, Stockholm The Stockholm
International Water Institute is calling for workshop abstracts
and seminar-cum-side-event proposals for the World Water Week which
is scheduled to take place from 16 to 22 August 2009 in Stockholm.
The theme of the "World Water Week" is "Responding to Global Challenges:
Accessing Water for the Common Good". More information
is available here. Citizens' Advice Services
on the Exercise of European Citizenship Rights - 6th European Forum,
24 -- 25 February 2009, Brussels The European
Citizen Action Service (ECAS) and Citizens Advice International
are organising the "6th European Forum of Citizens' Advice Services
on the Exercise of European Citizenship Rights" from 24 to 25 February
2009 in Brussels. More information
is available here. ***
The CONGO Committee on the International Decade for
the World's Indigenous Peoples (New York) will hold a committee
meeting on 18 December 2008 from 13:00 to 15:00 hours on the 11^th
Floor at the UN Church Center in New York. For more information, please contact indigenous.committee@gmail.com
Decent Work Decent Life
Campaign Global Campaign against
Poverty Interactive global online
conversation on the "Universality of Human Rights”, by
WFUNA Appeal and Petition for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
www10.plala.or.jp/antiatom/en/WC/e07wc/e-20070902_dec_riso.html
Gender
Training Community of Practice (GT CoP) – UN-INSTRAW www.un-instraw.org/en/community-of-practice/general/gender-training-community-of-practice-gt.html
UN-NGO-IRENE Best Practices
Network www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/irene
NGLS 2007 Yearly Review
of Civil Society www.un-ngls.org/site/article.php3?id_article=462 First Committee
Monitor – Resource on the General Assembly’s First Committee
on Disarmament and International Security www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/1com/FCM.html Globethics.net
Library – A Global Digital Library on Ethics Resources
and Calendar for Peace Issues – International Peace Bureau
www.ipb.org and www.ipb.org/i/newsletters-and-publications/VI-A-ipb-newsletters-and-calendars.html
Fall 2008
NGO Briefings and Events, UN Department of Public Information (UN/DPI),
www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/brief_calendars/Briefing_Calendar_Oct_Dec_2008.pdf
Internet Governance Caucus Website 2009 UNDP Procurement Training Calendar www.undp.org/procurement/training.shtml
Human Rights
Day 2008 (10 December) Information Kit www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/60UDHR/IK_HRDay%202008_En_20081126.pdf 3-7 January 2009: Giving Children a Voice: The Transforming
Role of the Family in a Global Society -- World Congress, New Delhi
12-16 January 2009: 8^th Session of the Working Group
of Experts on People of African Descent, Geneva 14-16 January 2009: International Expert Group Meeting on
the Implementation of Article 42 of the Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples, New York. www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/EGM_A42.html
18-21 January
2009: Discovering Soul -- WSF 2009, 6^th World Spirit Forum, Arosa,
Switzerland 27 January
-- 1 February 2009: World Social Forum 2009 -- Registration now
open, Belem (Brazil) 2-13 March 2009: 53^rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/53sess.htm 12-13 March
2009: First International Conference on eGovernment and eGovernance
-- Call for Papers, Ankara Abstracts and general enquiries may be forwarded to
icegov@sobiad.org
20-22 March 2009: Empowering Women for Global Wellness -- World Wellness Women's Congress, Chennai 17-19 April
2009: Cultural Days 2009, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, www.cads.ch/4529/index.html 18-19 April 2009: Unite for Sight -- 6^th Annual Global
Health and Development Conference, Yale University, New Haven 4-15 May 2009: 17^th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development -- Pre-Registration Open www.un.org/esa/sustdev/mgroups/registration.htm
17-20 June
2009: Building Community Centred Economies -- Conference, Brisbane
7-9 and 9-10 July 2009: InterAction Forum 2009 -- 2009 International Aid+Trade, Arlington, VA, and Washington, D.C. www.aidandtrade.org/view.overview 10-13 July
2009: 2^nd International Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG
2009, Orlando www.iiis2009.org/wmsci/website/default.asp?vc=22
7-10 September
2009: Children and the Law: International Approaches to Children
and their Vulnerability -- International Conference, Prato, Tuscany
www.med.monash.edu.au/socialwork/conference09 The
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