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UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development
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The mandate for the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development was decided at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha in December 2008 (paragraph 79 of the Doha Declaration A/CONF.212/L.1/Rev.1). Negotiations on the ‘modalities’ of the UN Conference began in February and were completed in early April. The conference will take place from 1 – 3 June 2009 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Governments agreed to hold the Conference at the ‘highest level’ (i.e. Heads of States and Heads of Governments), which will comprise four consecutive thematic roundtables involving participation of other stakeholders, including civil society, and will result in an intergovernmentally agreed outcome document.

>>Choike's related in-depth reports: Financing for Development , Gender in Economics , The global financial crisis: implications for the South , Poverty

>>See also the event for the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development - 29 November - 2 December 2008, Doha, Qatar

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Urge leaders to attend UN crisis summit
While many developing country governments are proposing to send their heads of state, many other developing and developed countries (in particular G-20 countries) aren't. Send a letter to your head of state to try and change this so that the meeting has the political weight it needs to challenge the status quo.
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 Peoples' voices on the crisis
The event to take place on 30 May in New York will bring together people from the South and the North, from the US and abroad, women and men, workers and unemployed on the eve of the UN Summit Conference on the Economic and Financial Crisis.
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 Draft outcome document for the Conference
The President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, introduced the first draft of the Outcome Document of the World Conference on Financial and Economic Crisis, to be held in June 1-3 (pdf).
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News Reports
Urge leaders to attend UN crisis summit
 Peoples' voices on the crisis
 Letter to social movements, non-governmental networks and intellectuals
 Civil Society registration for UN Conference on World Financial Crisis
 		Draft outcome document for the Conference
 Ensuring Development in the face of the financial crisis
 Website of the President of the General Assembly on the June Conference
 United Nations Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development

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