HRI reactivating Vienna Plus Five ListServe

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HRI reactivating Vienna Plus Five ListServe


October 26, 1999
 
To people: who attended or expressed an interest in the Vienna Plus
Five NGO Forum; interested in the issue of NGO access to the UN and
the review of the UN mechanisms; and/or interested in the forthcoming
NGO Millenium Forum to take place in New York, 22-26 May 2000.
 
From: Laurie Wiseberg, Executive Director, Human Rights Internet
 
Friends:
 
We are reactivating and expanding the V+5 ListServe to address V+5
follow-up, issues of critical importance to NGOs concerned with the
UN, and the forthcoming NGO Millennium Forum. If you want to have your
name removed from this ListServe, send an e-mail to <[email protected]>
and write "unsubscribe V+5 ListServe" in the Subject Field.
 
(1) Re the Millennium Forum:
 
>From 22-26 May 2000, at UN Headquarters in New York, there will be a
an NGO Millennium Forum which is intended to feed into the Millennium
Assembly (a special segment of the UN General Assembly) in September
2000. Specifically, the Millennium Forum is intended to "assembly the
innovative ideas and proposals of non-governmental organizations and
civil society from all levels, seeking to create not only a new vision
for the future but also an organizational structure whereby the
peoples of the world can participate effectively in global
decision-making."
 
The main theme of the Millennium Forum is "The United Nations for the
Twenty-First Century". There are six sub-themes as adopted by the
Millennium Forum Steering Committee:

1. Peace, security and disarmament
2. Eradication of poverty
3. Human Rights
4. Sustainable development and the environment
5. Facing the challenge of globalization: achieving equity, justice
and diversity
6. Strengthening and democratizing the UN and international
institutions.
 
For each of these themes, there will be approximately 20 panels. HRI
has been asked to coordinate the sub-theme of "human rights" and we
want broad input from the international human rights community.
Additionally, although at this time we have no financial resources in
hand, we believe it vital that the Millennium Forum involve human
rights activists from all regions of the world, as well as being
gender balanced. If we put together a good programme, we hope we will
be able to find some funding to support the participation of NGOs from
the South and from "societies in transition".
 
If you would like to propose a subject that should be addressed by
these panels, if you are prepared to present a paper at one of the
panels, if you have any ideas you want to share about the Millennium
Forum, please contact me ASAP (as soon as possible) by sending me an
e-mail to <[email protected]>.  We will create space on our website to
post your suggestions and ideas.
 
(2) The last HRI Tribune carried an article "NGO Access: A Problem
that Won�t Go Away." It is now on our website: http://www.hri.ca/ 

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