Autumn 2005

The UN World Summit, held in New York between 14 and 16 September brought together the world's heads of state and governments in the biggest ever conference of world leaders. The Summit was held to review the Millennium Declaration including the commitments on development, human rights and security that world leaders made five years ago. Here is some analysis of the outcomes from the MPH people...

http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/yearsofar/unsummit05.shtml

And from Oxfam, with broader coverage including the decisions on genocide...

http://www.oxfam.org/eng/programscampgcap_unsummit05.htm

The next big thing, appart from the Leeds conference, is the Trade Justice lobby of parliament on November 2nd. Keep track of critical developments in the area at...

http://www.tjm.org.uk/news.shtml You may also be interested in this interesting article from Reuters AlertNet about how some of the over US$11billion of aid pledged following the Boxing day tsunami was wasted by NGOs in their rush to respond...

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/112849687980.htm

Also on the same website is a pledge-o-meter recording how well governments are keeping up with their promises of aid for the affected area...

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/aidtracker/index.htm

And finally, take a look at this nice section on the RAS website detailing what key African thinkers are saying about where Africa will be in 2015, how can it get there and why it has not got there already...

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/reportspublications/reportspublications/voices_africa

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Last updated on Sunday 06 April 2008 at 22:26.