>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:59:56 -0500 >From: Rhonda Teitel-Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: ACT-CUTS-ONT-L: global organizing - Millenium Forum > >From: Techeste Ahderom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: All non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, >private voluntary organizations, academic institutions, unions, >parliamentarians, local authorities and other representatives and groups >of civil society. > >From: Techeste Ahderom, co-chair, Millennium Forum > >Date: 8 February 2000 > >Re: Updated application and registration process for The Millennium >Forum > >PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE >PLEASE FORGIVE DUPLICATE POSTINGS > >Dear Friends, > >As many of you know, we are fast approaching the main meeting of the >Millennium Forum, scheduled for 22-26 May 2000 at the United Nations >Headquarters. > >The Millennium Forum will bring together representatives of civil >society from all over the world to consult about humanity's common >future -- and, particularly, the role of the United Nations in >confronting the great global challenges of the 21st Century. > >Scheduled for 22-26 May 2000 at United Nations headquarters as part of >the preparations for the UN's Millennium Assembly in September, the >Millennium Forum in particular seeks to create a process whereby the >input from global civil society can be collected in an open, >transparent and representative manner and then consulted upon rationally. > >The Forum will focus on six main sub-themes under the main theme of >"The United Nations in the 21st Century." These main sub-themes are: >1) peace, security and disarmament; >2) the eradication of poverty (including debt cancellation and social > development; >3) human rights; >4) sustainable development and the environment; >5) the challenges of globalization; and >6) strengthening the United Nations and other international organizations. > >Our hope is that the Forum will also result in an organizational >structure whereby the peoples of the world can participate effectively >in global decision-making and in the implementation and follow-up of >global plans of action. > >Our plan is to be as inclusive as possible, by having on-line meetings >and satellite teleconferences to the extent that funds allow. Indeed, >if you can help with fund-raising, this is also a priority now. > >However, I wanted to alert you that since the main site for the main >Millennium Forum meeting in May is the United Nations headquarters in >New York, we must limit participation to roughly 1,400 people. > >To facilitate the process of application and registration for >participation at the main Millennium Forum meeting at the United >Nations, we have now placed at our website an on-line registration >form. As well, we have also created downloadable registration forms. > >Our hope is that you all will carefully consider registering for the >Forum -- and that those of you with web-capable computers will download >and print-out the paper-based forms and then send them along to other >groups and organizations in your network that may not have full access >to the Internet. > >Indeed, we are counting on our brother and sister civil society >organizations to distribute word of this event and of the need for all >to participate in it as far and wide as possible. > >Accordingly, please examine the on-line registration form at our >website, which is located at http://www.millenniumforum.org. Please >also distribute word of this new registration process as widely as >possible. > >Then, in the coming weeks and months, please continue to return to the >website, which is where our discussion papers and other information >about the Forum will be distributed first. > >Warmest regards, > >Techeste Ahderom > >Co-chair, Millennium Forum >866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120 >New York, NY, 10017, USA >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >phone: 212-803-2522 >Fax: 212-803-2561 > > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ............................................. > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
