14-16 September, 2005
Protect the people; United Nations takes bold stance
http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/articles_editorial/323?theme=alt1
This text contains excerpts from the original. R2PCS has selected portions that relate directly to the Responsibility to Protect principles. By Tod Lindberg, The Washignton Times, September 27, 2005
A United Nations Truly For "We The Peoples"
http://www.beijingandbeyond.org/index.html
Remarks by Virginia Vargas, Civil Society Speaker, 2005 World Summit, September 16, 2005. I stand here as a global civil society activist. I am here to echo the insistent and disenchanted voices of global civil society movements-voices telling the Heads of State present in this World Summit that current world conditions are ethically unacceptable, politically devastating, and economically and environmentally unsustainable.
UN Summit: Amnesty condemns betrayal of human rights
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16428.shtml
Amnesty International, 15 September, 2005. Amnesty International condemns the apparent capitulation of world leaders to pressure from a small minority of states leading to the exclusion of almost all meaningful human rights reforms from debate at the UN Summit in New York.
FT briefing: UN World Summit
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d1d774a4-2537-11da-98dc-00000e2511c8.html
Financial Times, 15 September, 2005. UN officials put a positive spin on the outcome document, but it clearly fell short of Kofi Annan’s original package of proposals issued March 21, called “In larger freedom”.
World Summit - Women Cite Success on Gender Equality, Underscore Lack of Political Will
http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/gcap-women/2005-September/000654.html
GCAP Women List, United Nations, New York City, September 14, 2005 After months of pressuring governments on women’s rights, advocates from around the world have achieved some gains on gender equality in the World Summit outcome document, despite the lack of meaningful action on the total package under debate.
The Lost U.N. Summit Meeting
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/opinion/14wed1.html
14 September, 2005. A once-in-a-generation opportunity to reform and revive the United Nations has been squandered even before the opening gavel comes down this morning for the largest assemblage of world leaders ever brought together in a single location.
In quotes: UN World Summit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4247296.stm
BBC World News, 14 September, 2005. Some 150 world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations' 60th anniversary summit, meant to kick-start UN reform and create a united front on issues such as poverty and terrorism.
Annan Seeks to Restore U.N. Credibility
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-UN-World-Summit.html
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 14 September, 2005 -- After a year of mounting criticism, Secretary-General Kofi Annan defended the United Nations on Wednesday and urged global leaders to restore the organization's credibility by adopting broad reforms needed for the world to act together to tackle poverty, terrorism and conflict.
Landmark UN world summit begins
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1460525.htm
ABC News Online, Reuters, 14 September, 2005. World leaders have gathered at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York for a summit on revitalising the organisation, but their blueprint falls short of secretary-general Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war.
Fulfill your promises
http://www.whiteband.org/specialIssues/UNP5/unp52/gcapnews.2005-09-14.7691323225/en
United Nations, 14 September 2005. Statement submitted to the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of Civil Society. Presented by Prof. Leonor Magtolis Briones, Social Watch, International Facilitating Group on FfD and Global Call to Action against Poverty.
U.N. reform agenda watered-down
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/13/un.reform.ap/
13 September, 2005 CNN News. United Nations (AP) -- The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a watered-down draft document on poverty, human rights and institutional reform for this week's summit of world leaders to consider -- shedding many of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's ambitious goals after weeks of bitter debate.
UN World Summit talks go to wire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4239756.stm
BBC News, 13 September, 2005. Diplomats at the United Nations worked late into the night to agree on a package of measures to be adopted at the World Summit, opening on Wednesday.
Women's Groups Prescribe Political Viagra for World Leaders
http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/gcap-women/2005-September/000639.html
September 13, 2005. Women's organizations worldwide are gravely concerned by the state of negotiations on the World Summit.
Development: Poverty Fight May Be Subverted at U.N. Summit
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30223
United Nations, September 12, 2005 (IPS) - The U.N. summit, billed as one of the largest single gatherings of world leaders, will prove to be an exercise in futility if its primary focus on poverty and hunger eradication is subverted.
U.N. faces fight of its life
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12 September, 2005. It's the Big One: the 900-pound gorilla of world summits, the largest in history, as more than 170 leaders gather in the United Nations complex on New York's East River from Wednesday to Friday.
Envoys Reach Compromise on Scaled-Back U.N. Reform Plans
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/politics/13nations.html
New York Times, UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 12 - Faced with the imminent arrival of more than 170 presidents and prime ministers, negotiators agreed Monday to resolve differences blocking acceptance of the centerpiece document for this week's summit meeting on combating poverty and reforming the United Nations.
Fears grow of meltdown at ambitious UN summit
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11107587.htm
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - With more than 150 world leaders headed to a U.N. summit this week, fears grew that a blueprint on new approaches to global security, human rights and extreme poverty in the 21st century would be negotiated down to pious generalities.
When states fail to protect their own, the United Nations must act
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Toronto Star, LLOYD AXWORTHY, September 11, 2005. For the past two years I have served as a special U.N. envoy working on a contentious border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
UN Hits Back at US in Report Saying Parts of America are as Poor as Third World
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0908-06.htm
8 September, 2005. Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality.
Women urge UN SG to ensure rights of women and girls at World Summit
http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/gcap-women/2005-September/000601.html
September 2, 2005, New York, NY, Gender monitoring group urges UN secretary general to ensure rights of women and girls not ignored at World Summit.
Anger at Washington Simmers on Eve of UN Meet
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30113
United Nations, September 1, 2005 (IPS) - A bid by the George W. Bush administration to introduce massive changes in the draft document to be signed by world leaders at a major United Nations summit this month is causing a deep sense of anger and frustration.
Millennium Development Goals:
Glossing Over Womens' Issues
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30019
DHAKA, Aug 25 (IPS) - As world leaders gear up to review contributions to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the United Nations general assembly in September, activists in this least developed country worry for core concerns of women everywhere.
Development:
Globalisation Driving Inequality, UN Warns
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30029
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 (IPS) - Despite unprecedented economic growth in recent years, the rich have become richer and the poor even poorer, says a new U.N. report that also shows women facing more hardship than men in all walks of life.
U.S. Wants Changes In U.N. Agreement
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402321.html
UNITED NATIONS, Washington Post Aug. 24 -- Less than a month before world leaders arrive in New York for a world summit on poverty and U.N. reform, the Bush administration has thrown the proceedings in turmoil with a call for drastic renegotiation of a draft agreement to be signed by presidents and prime ministers attending the event.
Promises, Promises
http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/gcap-women/2005-August/000545.html
New York Times, Editorial, August 22, 2005, In 1947, when 23 nations agreed to start a new international organization to promote trade and arbitrate disputes, the wants of poor countries mattered little.
June 2005: Gender Equality in Education: World Fails to Meet MDG3
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/we/archive/msg00211.html#mdg
By 2005, the number of girls in primary and secondary schools world-wide should be equal to that of boys. This is the target of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives worldwide.
