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Activity
reports
September 2000
to September 2001
DPI/NGO conference:
August 29,2000,
--“New Visions, New Structures: Building on Our Values”
organized by members of the Values Caucus Jerry Spivack, Martha
Gallahue and Carol Zin.
Events sponsored:
May 3, 2001
– Meeting with special guest speaker Michael Shaw, Executive
Director – Ocean Arks International and Chairman of the Trustees
of Findhorn Foundation “Ecological Design: Towards a Sustainable
Future”, Discussion and slide show of exciting and inspiring
ecological projects.
April 5,2001
– Meeting with special guest speakers: S. Rama Rao, Senior
Counsellor, and Tawfiq Tabbaa, Coordination Officer
at the New York Coordination Office of World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO)
December 7,
2000 – Luncheon Conversation “Answering the Call to Values”
An informal gathering with Ambassadors and members of the Values
Caucus -- ways to further our collaborative efforts to strengthen
and promote the values of the Millennium Declaration.
November 2,
2000 – Breakfast meeting with Mr. Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
of the World Bank, Geneva.
November 2,
2000 – Meeting with special guest speaker Mr. Nitin Desai,
Under Secretary General of Economic an Social Affairs.
Events co-sponsored:
January 25,
2001 – Creating Peace through the Arts for the International
Decade for Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the children
of the World. Sponsored by UNESCO, the Peace Caucus, the
Values Caucus, United Religions Initiative-UN, Timotca and the
Mission of Bosnia to the UN.
November 14,
2000 – Seventh Annual Day for Freedom of Religion or
Belief -- Sponsored by the NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion
or Belief, with the Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN and
the International NGO Committee on Human Rights.
September
19, 2000 – Millennium Peace Day – observance at the
UN and worldwide with the Department of Public information,
UNESCO and numerous NGOs.
Invitations
to speak:
May 31, 2001
– NGO/DPI Communications Workshop NGOs: Working with Permanent
Missions to the UN. Collective Contacts with Missions –
Matha Gallahue introduced the work of the Values Caucus with
a special focus on the “Coffees”
Coffee seroes
to date:
H.E. Ms. Madina
B. Jarbussynova, Republic of Kazakhstan
5/31/01 - Kazakhstan: 10 years of Independence
H.E. Ms. Marjatta
Rasi, Finland
5/17/01 - Globalization and the Wide Concept of Security
H.E. Sr. Jorge
Eduardo Navarette, Mexico
5/10/01
H.E. Miss
M. Patricia Durrant, Jamaica
5/3/01 - The Special Session of the General Assembly for Children
H.E. Mr. Percy
Metsing Mangoaela, Lesotho
4/12/01 - Information & Communications Technology
H.E. M. Marc
Nteturuye, Burundi
12/14/00
H.E. Sir Jeremy
Greenstock, KCMG, The United Kingdom
11/16/00
H.E. Mr. Gelson
Fonseca, Jr., Brazil
10/5/00
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