A ten day mobilization from 16-26 June 2009 aims to raise awareness, build momentum and deliver key civil society messaging around the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development.

Interactive dialogue on human rights issues, bringing together UN Member States; intergovernmental organizations; UN agencies; mandate-holders of thematic procedures and mechanisms of the human rights machinery; NGOs; community organizations; trade unions; social movements; private sector entities; international financial and trade institutions; development agencies; and human rights national institutions.

In an effort to promote the free enjoyment of human sexuality, separate from reproduction, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) launched the world's first declaration of sexual rights in the Argentine capital on Wednesday.

Climate change and the current global economic crisis bring an unprecedented opportunity to transform global governance, which must start giving priority to human development and citizen engagement.

After four days of difficult negotiations among 121 governments at a UN Food and Agricultural Organization Treaty meeting on the use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held in Tunisia, a Canadian effort to block progress was overturned.

Up to 100 Amazon natives have been killed after Friday's military crackdown on protesters in Peru and the situation is expected to worsen, says a Canadian Indigenous rights activist.

On World Environment Day, leaders of industrialised nations have been criticised for failing to do their homework on climate change.

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia has once again denounced homosexuality at a recent tour in Banjul, suggesting that the practice will not be tolerated in that country.

The agenda of this year's G8 meeting in Italy is expected to be topped by the global crisis. In order to dramatize the need for more aid in education and health in developing countries, OXFAM has organized the W-8: eight women leaders from developing countries.

A UN team investigating possible war crimes in Gaza says it will hold public hearings with victims of the conflict in Gaza and Geneva later this month.