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| Sandra Maldonado Baur de Rivero Borrell, Presidente, Fundacion Cultural BAUR, A.C. and Sherrill Kazan Alvarez de Toledo, President of World Council of Peoples for the UN | Kofi A. Annan, Secretary General of UN, Raymond Sommereyns, Director, Outreach Division, UN Department of Public Information (DPI), and Mrs. Nane Annan. | Rita Lopez Bautista, President, Knowledge Channel and Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc and A Living Library |
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| Bonnie Ora Sherk and Sherrill Kazan Alvarez de Toledo, President of World Council of Peoples for the UN | Jan Eliasson, President of the Sixtieth Session of the UN General Assembly | Bonnie Ora Sherk and Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, President of the Sixty-First Session of the UN General Assembly. |
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| Oliver Lee, Jilly H.P. Tsai, Hsiao Lung Ogle, Association of World Citizens Federation of World Peace and Love, Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy | Bonnie Ora Sherk and Suzanne Golas, csjp, Director, WaterSpirit | Ramu Damodaran, Chief, Civil Society Service Outreach Division, UN Department of Information, Bonnie Ora Sherk, and Susan J. Zipp, Communications Coordination Committee for the UN and Chair of the People's Assembly of the UN |
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| Shamina de Gonzaga, Special Advisor on NGO Relations to the President of the UN General Assembly and Bonnie Ora Sherk | Panel of Speakers Addressing Conference Participants | Participants of Conference |
The DPI/NGO Conference was titled: "Unfinished Business - Effective Partnerships for Human Security and Sustainable Development" and brought together Civil Society and United Nations officials from all over the world to discuss ways to collaborate and develop effective partnerships.
More than 2,000 Non-governmental Organization (NGO) representatives and other Civil Society partners from more than 90 countries gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to discuss ways and means for strengthening collaboration between local communities and global institutions. The three day gathering of NGOs was organized by the Department of Public Information (DPI) in cooperation with the NGO/DPI Executive Committee and the participation of its associated NGOs and NGOs in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Click here to read a Conference Message from the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.
Some of the Discussions included the following Roundtables:
"How are you ? The Millennium Development Goals"
"Moving Development Forward: Accountability, Transparency, Equitable
Trade Policies"
"Achieving Financial and Ecological Sustainability"
"Science and Technology for Education"
"Emerging Approaches to Healthcare, including Gender-based HIV
and AIDS"
"Human Security: Responsibility to Protect and the Peacebuilding
Commission"
"Civil Society and Global Partnerships for Development"
"Committment to Reducing Extreme Poverty and Hunger"
"Promoting Respect for Cultural Diversity in Conflict Resolution"
"The Role of the Media and Communications Technology in Achieving
the Millennium Development Goals"
Participant Figures At A Glance (as of 15 August 2006):
Number of Representatives: 1879
Number of NGOs Registered: 540
Number of Countries Represented: 67
Number of Representatives from AFRICA: 183
Number of Representatives from ASIA & THE PACIFIC: 242
Number of Representatives from EASTERN EUROPE: 49
Number of Representatives from LATIN AMERICA: 66
Number of Representatives from MIDDLE EAST & ARAB COUNTRIES: 28
Number of Representatives from NORTHERN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN: 974
Number of Representatives from WESTERN EUROPE: 337
