4 July 2008 - 2 Greenpeace activists have been arrested in Tokyo to expose a whale meat corruption sacandal. Check its web and support the letter asking for their release!!

11 June 2008 MONTERREY+6 SERIES Nº2

30 May 2008 The worldwide food crisis makes establishing a system of global democratic governance all the more urgent On the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we the undersigned wish to express our deep concern and to voice our most forceful protest at having reached this long foreseen and extremely grave situation in such a critical affair as feeding the world's inhabitants. This situation clearly exposes the failure of our present economic system in financial, environmental, cultural and moral terms, the rules of the market having replaced the rule of universal values, and it exposes the condition of vulnerability of our International Organisations, brought about by the absence of support from the most powerful countries. Read more...

16 April 2008 MONTERREY+6 SERIES: Following up the process Read more...

4 March 2008 60TH ANNIVERSARY UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS On this 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we, the undersigned, wish to emphasise that all Human Rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent, in full accordance with the Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights made in Vienna... Read more...

26 January 2008 Global Action Day Read more...

2 & 3 December 2007 2nd Seminar on Future Scenarios for the Reform of the System of International Institutions Read more...

22-24 October 2007 The Secretariat of UBUNTU Forum at the New York Dialogue on Financing for Development From 22 to 24 October, the General Assembly is holding a High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development (FfD) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. This is the beginning of preparations for the International Conference to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, which will be held in the second half of 2008. Marta Garrich, from the Secretariat of UBUNTU forum, participates in one of the round tables. And the Secretariat organises a panel discussion on "Towards Monterrey +6: systemic issues and the reform of international institutions". For more information about this dialogue, see: http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/

17 September 2007 LET US MAKE THE UNITED NATIONS THE CENTRAL INSTRUMENT IN DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNANCE On 18 September this year, the sixty-second annual session of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be opened under an umbrella slogan proposed by the Secretary General: "Revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly". A necessary and worthwhile aim. Read more...

18 May 2007 Times of crisis for international institutions?

12 February 2007 OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW UN SECRETARY GENERAL: MR. BAN KI-MOON We the signatories have over the last seven years, at the initiative of UBUNTU — World Forum of Civil Society Networks, issued a number of communiqués to world public opinion detailing various common issues, important among them the fact that "the democratisation, strengthening and primacy of the UN in international politics are essential in order to make a better world possible". Read more...

July 2006 Virtual launch of the 2006-2009 period of the "World Campaign"

Updated UBUNTU Website You are looking at the updated website of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU. From the first steps and inaugural meetings in 2000 and 2001, a great deal has happened, and our website - for the most part the result of the daily activities of these nearly five years of intense work on this project - inevitably needed this improvement. Read more...