[From CONGO Connections, Vol 6, No 2, January 2005] Five years after the Millennium Summit in 2000, governments will be gathering in New York to assess what progress has been achieved in realizing the Millennium Development Goals and the rest of the Millennium Declaration. The formal assessment will begin in March, when the Secretary General…
Category: Civil Society
Civil Society still outsiders at the General Assembly
After raising the slimmest of hopes, the GA keeps civil society out in the cold. For those of us who have been active at the United Nations on the role of civil society in the institution, we were hopeful that the report of the High Level Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations would open the possibility…