Hello from Global Policy Forum!
This week we have added 21 new or updated items to our web site.
NGO access appears to be back on the agenda. The Stanley Foundation is hosting a conference on NGO access this weekend at Arden House, which Jim Paul will be attending. We expect that progress and partnerships can be made, as delegates, secretariat members and NGO leaders sit down together for a serious discussion of the issues. Also, as a follow-up to the meeting on civilians in armed conflict in the Security Council on February 12, GPF has been working to ensure that adequate access arrangements can be made to allow NGO representatives and the public to attend regularly such discussions.
Postings on the topic of globalization include a link to a four-part series on "Global Contagion". These articles provide a fascinating glimpse into how the global economy touches people throughout the world. We now have a direct link to the text of Secretary General Annan's February 1 address to world business leaders in Davos and further commentary on the Davos scene. We have posted an announcement for a campaign to promote the Tobin Tax and a report on a meeting between South African NGOs and World Bank, as well as a analytical piece by Noam Chomsky on the MAI and the history of the Bretton Woods institutions.
Also available are IISD's briefing notes on last week's meetings of the UN Ad Hoc Working Group for a financing for development consultation to be held before the end of 2001. We will continue to follow the preparations for this consultation as events unfold.
Among postings on Security Council issues, we have 2 new pieces on the situation in Angola and a link to a PBS interview with Edmund Ghareeb and Denis Halliday on the humanitarian situation in Iraq.
The most recent information on the UN financial crisis is here, too, keeping you informed on who makes the honour roll and who is a deadbeat!
In closing, we would like to bid a very fond farewell to Ambassador Juan Somavia of Chile, who is leaving his post as Permanent Representative of Chile to the UN. He will assume the directorship of the ILO. We thank him for his tireless efforts to promote civil society's participation in the UN. We look forward to working with him in his new capacity.
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