Greetings once more from Global Policy Forum!
An exciting week here at Global Policy Forum, as Amb. Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne of Gambia gave a briefing to the NGO Working Group on the Security Council, the Council held an important open discussion on the topic of human security which we attended, and we led a group of NGOs advocating for participation in the General Assembly Working Group that is planning the upcoming high-level inter-governmental forum on financing for development.
With the Security Council as busy as ever this week, GPF has covered a range of international secuirty issues. We have brought you the briefing by Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sergio Viera de Mello, given to the Security Council on the recent threats posed to UN humanitarian workers and the need to co-ordinate humanitarian and security concerns. There are also articles on the very latest developments regarding Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and East Timor.
We also provide updates of all the most recent data concerning peacekeeping and the Security Council, including sanction committee membership, resolutions and presidential statements, and the size of peacekeeping contingents and budgets.
In international economics, we have included articles on the World Bank's critical self-assessment of its relationship with ex-Indonesian President Suharto, and on the G-15's call for reform of the international finance institutions. A paper by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions puts forward proposals for the World Bank on global social policy and labour standards. We also post an article which discusses recent efforts to give the UN a larger role in international economic policy.
This week we also bring you articles on specific UN agencies. We focus on the decision to increase the budget and further reform UNEP, on Germany's cuts to its UNDP contribution, and on projects by civil society funded by such agencies. There are some sobering excerpts on global income inequality from the 1998 Human Development Report; these contrast sharply with the humorous depiction, by Alan Freeman of the Globe and Mail, of the World Economic Forum's self-congratulatory ambience as hundreds of CEOs of the world's largest corporations gather in Davos, Switzerland.
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