This week GPF and The NGO Peace Caucus present: Denis Halliday, former United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, speaking on "The Humanitatian Crisis of Iraq Sanctions"
Thursday, March 11, 1999
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
777 UN Plaza (44th St. & 1st Ave.) 2nd Floor
Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and head of the Oil-for-Food program, will speak and take questions. Through editorials, media appearances and speeches, Halliday has been a high-profile and very credible critic of the Iraq sanctions regime, which has been in place since 1990, the eve of the Gulf War. For more information contact:
Peace Action International #(212) 750-5795 or
Global Policy Forum #(212) 557-3161
The General Assembly ad hoc Working Group for the financing for development consultation has taken the unprecedented step of inviting NGOs to participate in two upcoming hearings. Since Working Groups are always limited to member state delegations, these hearings will allow NGOs to have input into the preliminary planning process for the conference. GPF has been asked to bring together NGOs to make the presentations. We have posted an update on these upcoming meetings and the 8 topics under consideration. The first hearing will take place on Monday, March 15th.
On Monday, March 1, the NGO Working Group on the Security Council met with Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock of the United Kingdom. Readers will notice that the WG is having meetings with delegates nearly every week now.
Listed below are our 17 new postings for this past week. Highlights on the global economy include a piece on Russian transnational corruption that proposes creation of an international oversight board with NGOs as primary actors. "Look What a Fraction of This Arms Money Could Do" is a wise reflection on the harm of the arms trade and defence build-up. The article is written by Oscar Arias -- the 1987 Nobel Peace laureate and former president of Costa Rica. Two other articles analyze the world financial crisies and the role of the United States.
Articles specifically on the UN include the Washington Post's expose of the use of UNSCOM by the United States to spy on Iraq. We've also posted a New York Times editorial, "Unexplained Strategies in Iraq", which calls for the U.S. to account for its actions manipulating the UN agency and for the U.S. to provide greater openess in its policies towards Iraq. Other items posted to the site keep you up to date on UN and Security Council actions on Libya, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and debate over the "Oil for Food" program and the on-going Senate review of Richard Holbrooke's nomination as US Permanent Representative to the UN.
On UN reform we have provided a link to a recent statement by UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette.
Insight into relationships between global instituions and NGOs is provided in a report we have posted on NGO consulation with the European Commission in Brussels.
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