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2010

• United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16)
  The conference encompassed the sixteenth Conference of the Parties(COP) and the sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol(CMP), as well as the thirty-third sessions of both the Subsidiary Body for Implement ...
• G-20 Seoul Summit
  Twenty world leaders came together in Seoul to discuss the state of the global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis. Together, they will take the necessary steps to reduce market volatility and move past the crisis, creating sustainable growth g ...
• Conference of the Parties, 10th (COP10) / Convention on Biological Diversity
  In the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP10), Strategic Issues for Evaluating Progress and Supporting Implementation of the Convention was considered.
• 2010 United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals
  The UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals reviewed the progress made in the MDGs achievement when only 5 years last to its deadline.
• General Assambly of the United Nations, 65th ordinary session
  The theme of the general deebate was “reaffirming the central role of the United Natons in global governance” proposed by the President-elect of the General Assembly.
• Human Rights Council, 15th
  The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in which it established for a period of three years a Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practise, and a decision in which it decided to hold a panel discussion on human right ...
• G-20 Tronto Summit
  One of the main agenda at the conference was an agreement on principles for fiscal consolidation by advanced economies.
• G-8 Muskoka Summit
  A tentative agenda for the 36th G8 summit included some issues which remain unresolved from previous summits, for example, foreign aid was one of an important topic. Also, regarding to the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea, the leaders criticized it ...
• 2010 NGO Global Forum for Women: Beijing+15
  The NGO/CSW/NY’s work is to provide information on programs, policies and advocacy that are making a difference in the lives of the world’s women and to facilitate the further efforts of women and men, girls and boys, to develop more effective strategies a ...

2009

• United Nations Climate Change Conference(COP15), and Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
  The 15th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCC was the main event of the 2009 international agenda. The importance of the Climate Change and its repercussions all over the world, made that many hopes were pinned in it, mainly from civil society. It was ...
• World Food Summit on Food Security
  The global food insecurity situation has worsened and continues to represent a serious threat for humanity. With food prices remaining stubbornly high in developing countries, the number of people suffering from hunger has been growing relentlessly in rece ...
• IMF - World Bank Annual Meetings 2009
  The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including th ...
• G20 Pittsburgh Summit
  Third G20 meeting in the last year. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was host to the G-20 Summit held from September 24-25, 2009. President Obama chaired the meeting of leaders from countries around the world that represent 85 percent of the world’s economy. At th ...
• Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development
  The forum aims to strengthen NGOs working in partnership to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights for sustainable development in an uncertain and interdependent world. The Government of Germany and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are ...
• United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development
  The United Nations is convening a three-day summit of world leaders from 24 to 26 June 2009 at its New York Headquarters to assess the worst global economic downturn since the Great Depression. The aim is to identify emergency and long-term responses to mi ...
• G20 London Summit
  On 2 April 2009, world leaders from the G20 countries – representing 85% of the world’s output – met in London. They met against the backdrop of the worst international banking crisis in generations. Building on the outcome of the Washington Summit in Nove ...
• World Social Forum 2009
  At the conference, they placed the focus on social density and other perspectives that show how the (indigenous) people who inhabit the forests are resisting the onslaught of huge corporations and the same predators as always.

2008

• The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP14)
  The United Nations Climate Change Conference concluded in Poznan on Saturday 13 December with a clear commitment from governments to shift into full negotiating mode next year in order to shape an ambitious and effective international response to climate c ...
• International Conference on Financing for Development
  Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus which was adopted by Heads of State and Government on 22 March 2002 at the 2002 Monterrey Conference.Following intense intergovernmental ...
• G-20 Washington Summit
  The G-20 Washington Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy achieved general agreement among the G-20 on how to cooperate in key areas so as to strengthen economic growth, deal with the financial crisis, and lay the foundation for reform to avoid ...
• World Urban Forum 4
  Forth session of the World Urban Forum, held in Ninjing, China, was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies and policies. It is ...
• Annual Meeting Boards of Governors / International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group
  The Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group normally meet once a year in the autumn for a plenary session to discuss the work of their respective institutions. The Annual Meeting are preceded by the ministerial-level mee ...
• International AIDS Conference XVII
  Conference organizers are developing a wide variety of session types that meet the needs of various participants and support collective efforts to expand delivery of HIV prevention and treatment to communities worldwide.
• Human Rights Council, 8th
  At its eighth session, the Council will continue the review, rationalization and improvement of mandates as commenced during the sixth session. The following mandates are scheduled to be reviewed: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary e ...
• Conference of the Parties, 9th (COP9) / Convention on Biological Diversity
  COP9 included a high-level ministerial segment organized by the host country in consultation with the Secretariat and the Bureau.The meeting also coincided with the International Biodiversity Day, on 22 May 2008. The Conference of the Parties held a Specia ...

2007

• The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP13)
  Over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations flocked to the conference, and negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol dominated the conference. The conference encompassed meetings of several bo ...
• The Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group
  The Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Goup normally meet once a year in the autumn for a two-day plenary session to discuss the work of their respective institutions. The Annual Meetings are preceded by the ministerial-l ...
• International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism, 2nd
  The global challenge of climate change and action by the tourism sector in both adaptation of destinations and mitigation of its own impacts was addressed at the conference. The meeting is organized by UNWTO together with the United Nations Environment Pro ...
• Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007
  The city of Monterrey (Mexico) held the Universal Forum of Cultures on 2007. On this occasion, the Forum promotes thinking and methods of problem solving in order to address global issues such as peace, education, knowledge and ecological conservation, amo ...
• Human Rights Council , 6th
  The Human Rights Council concludes its resumed sixth session, after having, among other things, extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Sudan and the Independent Expert on human rights in Liberia, and created a new expert mechan ...
• G8 Heiligendamm Summit
  The annual summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations (G8) held in Heiligendamm. Earlier, the Heads of State and Government had reached wide ranging agreements on all key issues on the agenda: from climate protection to Africa policy to th ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 7th
  The 2007 CIVICUS World Assembly, which was the second of the Glasgow series, was held from 23-27 May, 2007. Some 745 delegates attended from over 119 countries around the world. This was a definite increase from the number of countries recorded at the 2006 ...
• GCAP Montevideo Global Meeting 2007
  The Global Call to Action Against Poverty reached at Montevideo's commitment to extend its campaign until 2015 and to focus on reasons why more than 1,000 million people live as destitute on the planet. The decision by the 150 leaders gathered at the Urugu ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...

2006

• International People's Forum vs the World Bank and IMF
  In September 2006, the IMF and the World Bank organised their Annual Meeting in Singapore on September 19-20. In the spirit of resistance to neoliberal policies and in keeping with the history of people's struggles worldwide against economic domination, ...
• 2006 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.
  The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group are the largest and most comprehensive gathering of global financial representatives in the world, and are held outside their Washington, D.C. base ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 6th
  Over 800 delegates from over 100 countries came to Glasgow to discuss the overarching theme "Acting Together for a Just World", with four sub-themes of political, social, economic and civic justice. 2006 marked the beginning of our new approach to the CIVI ...
• 2006 Spring Meetings International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group
  Each Spring, the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee and the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee hold meetings to discuss progress on the work of the Fund and Bank. Plenary sessions of the IMF. The subjects treated in this meeting w ...
• GCAP Beirut Global Meeting 2006
  The global GCAP meeting in Beirut was celebrated with about 175 representatives from all over the world. Various evaluation work was commissioned of GCAP’s external impacts, websites, finances and a questionnaire survey about the future of GCAP was condu ...
• International conference on “Solidarity and Globalization: innovative financing for development and against pandemics”
  The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen the consensus on the need to implement new development financing mechanisms(particularly international solidarity contributions), to enrich ongoing projects (especially the air-ticket solidarity levy), to start ...
• World Social Forum 2006
  The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...

2005

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 6th
  The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, should have been the last Ministerial Conference of the Doha Round, held in 2001. It was, after the failure of the Cancun Conference, the last chance to relaunch the Development Round, but it failed a ...
• 2005 World Summit
  The 2005 World Summit represented an oportunity to take decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and the reform of the United Nations. The agenda was based on a attainable system of skirted suppliers in march by Secretary General Kofi ...
• Mediterranean Social Forum
  The Social Forum of Mediterranean was born in Barcelona, inspired by the Charter of Principles of the WSF. Its aim is to become a workspace plural cross, open to the different sensitivities, cultures, religions and peoples, to become an area of regional co ...
• World Social Forum 2005
  In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...

2004

• Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004
  The Forum was an event that brought together the various agents that comprise civil society. The Forum promoted dialogue with the aim of building a legacy at both local and international level. Three main themes defined the Forum: Cultural diversity, susta ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 5th
  The 5th CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Gaborone, Botswana at the end of March 2004, introducing the theme ‘Acting Together for a Just World’. Over 700 delegates from 105 countries gathered to discuss the issues of civic, economic, social and politic ...
• World Social Forum 2004
  In 2004, for the very first time the World Social forum took place outside Brazil. The decision was taken by the International Council as part of the process of promoting the WSF actual internationalization. The WSF 2004 counted on the presence of 74.126 ...
• ICPD at 10
  The 10th Anniversary of the ICPD, in 2004, marked the mid-point of its 20-year Programme of Action. This offered an opportunity to reflect on progress to date and take stock of challenges ahead. Towards this end, UNFPA conducted an in-depth, country-by-co ...

2003

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 5th
  The Cancún meeting’s special task was to take stock of progress in the [Doha Development Agenda] negotiations, provide any necessary political guidance and take decisions as necessary. It failed because of the opposition of the least developed countries t ...
• World Social Forum 2003
  The WSF 2003 brought together about 100 thousand people from all over the world. About 20 thousand delegates from 123 countries participated on the event. The core of the activities organized were included an amount of 10 conferences, 22 testimonials, 4 di ...

2002

• World Summit on Sustainable Development
  Also known as RIO+10. It focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for f ...
• World Social Forum 2002
  The second edition of the World Social Forum exceeded many respects expectations both by the number of attendees for the plurality of discussions and the large number of initiatives to implement alternatives to neoliberal globalization model imposed today ...

2001

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 4th
  Also known as The Development Round. It was held after September 11th attacks. Main Issues: agriculture and services, related aspects of intellectual property rights, electronic comerce, least-developed countries, trade and environment, aid for trade and ...
• World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
  Main issues: Racism, Intolerance, refuges, protection of minorities, migrants, ethnic conflicts Follow-up mechanisms:Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 4th
  In 2001, shortly after the “anti-globalisation” protests in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec City, the 4th CIVICUS World Assembly. This brought together over 730 people from 87 countries to reflect on “putting people at the centre,” and “the role of voluntary ac ...
• World Social Forum 2001
  The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to ...

2000

• Millenium Summit
  189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millennium 2005 Wo ...
• Social Summit +5
  United Nations member countries made a new commitment to eradicate poverty, address unemployment and promote social integration. They also agreed on a range of new initiatives for social development. Besides the measures being taken by Governments at the n ...
• Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st century, Special Session of the General Assembly
  The main issues were: peace, gender equality and development.

1999

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 3rd
  The Seattle Ministerial Confference wanted to launch a new round of trade negotiations, but it had to be postponed becuse of the street protests. The main issues were agriculture, services and how entry into the WTO the new members.
• ICPD+5
  Progress and challenges in the first five years of implementing the Cairo agreement were the focus of a series of meetings leading up to special session of the United Nations General Assembly (ICPD+5) in June 1999. The session identified four key actions: ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 3rd
  The following CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Manila in 1999, with the theme “Towards a New Civil Society: The Changing Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Business and Government”. Over 600 delegates from all sectors of society discussed the varied ...

1998

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 2nd
  This was the second Ministerial Conference after the Uruguay Round.
• Follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights, General Assembly 53rd Session
  The five-year review of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action is an important part of the follow-up mechanism to the World Conference on Human Rights

1997

• Kyoto Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, third
  Kyoto Protocol was adopted at COP 3 in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997. The complexity of the negotiations, however, meant that considerable “unfinished business” remained even after the Kyoto Protocol itself was adopted. The Protocol sketched out the ba ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 2nd
  In 1997, the CIVICUS World Assembly moved to Budapest, Hungary, attracting more than 500 people from 76 countries and six continents. Participants reviewed CIVICUS’ activities and immersed themselves in issues around visibility, resource mobilisation and ...

1996

• WTO Ministerial Conference, 1st
  This was the first Ministerial Conference after the WTO creation in 1995. Its main issues were the famous "Singapore issues", refering to four working groups: investment protection, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facil ...
• UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
  The purpose of the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) is to address two themes of equal global importance: "Adequate shelter for all" and "Sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world". Human beings are a ...

1995

• World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, the 4th
  Main issues: The advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence againts women and other ares of concern. Follow-up mechanisms: Beinjing+5
• World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)
  Social development with three core issues: eradication of poverty, expansion of productive employment and reduction of unemployment, and social integration Since the Summit in 1995, the General Assembly has annually considered the issue of implementation o ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 1st
  The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world. The first CIVICUS World Assembly was held in Mexico City in 1995. Through plenary spee ...

1994

• International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP)
  At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that population and development are inextricably linked, and that empowering women and meeting people's needs for education and health, including repro ...

1993

• World Conference on Human Rights
  The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action marks the culmination of a long process of review and debate over the current status of human rights machinery in the world. It also marks the beginning of a renewed effort to strengthen and further implement th ...

1992

• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
  The main issues were the ernviroment and sustainable development. Follow-up mechanisms:Commission on Sustainable Development; Inter-agency Committee on Sustainable Development; High-level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development

1990

• World Summit for Children
  Goals for the year 2000 for children's health, nutrition, education, and access to safe water and sanitation Mid-decade review, with Secretary-General's progress report presented at the 1996 General Assembly session on the anniversary of the Children's Sum ...