Table of Contents

Objectives

• Aims and Objectives
• Principles
• Preparatory Meeting
  • Preparatory Meeting Report

Report

• Executive report
• On-going forum and future
  • Members of Coordinating Council
• Working Groups reports
  • Civil Society Cooperation with the United Nations System
  • Information Society
  • Environment, Trade and Sustainable Development
  • Health Promotion
  • Human rights and Humanitarian Law
  • Indigenous Peoples, Gender and Development
  • Peace and Disarmament
  • Private Sector
  • Right of Peoples to Self-Determination
  • Compiled list of recommendations
• Youth Forum reports
  • Civil Society and the UN
  • Information Society
  • Environment, Trade and Sustainable Development
  • Health Promotion
  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  • Right of People to Self-Determination and the Prevention of Conflict
• Training sessions
  • Journalism
  • Internet Training
  • Development project management
  • Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Minorities
  • International Public Law
  • Solar Ovens
  • Humanitarian Law
  • Communication Privacy for NGOs
  • Volunteers
  • Moderators
• Workshops, Information and Discussion Sessions
• Complementary information
• Compiled list of recommendations

Speakers

• Opening Session - Monday the 15^th of July
  • HE Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, message presented by HE Mr. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director of the United Nations Office in Geneva
  • HE Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the International Organisation of the Francophonie and former Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • HE Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD
  • HE Ambassador Walter Fust, Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)
  • Mr. Guy Olivier Segond, Special Ambassador of the World Summit on the Information Society
  • Ms. Mililani Trask, President of Na Koa Ikaika O Ka Lahui Hawaii and member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples
  • Ms. Renate Bloem, President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
  • Mr. Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of CIVICUS
  • Ms. Sirpa Pietikainen, Chair of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
• Guest speakers session - Tuesday the 16^th of July
  • HE Ms. Mary Robinson, High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNOHCHR)
  • Ambassador Francesco Mezzalama, Inspector of the UN Joint Inspection Unit
  • Mr. Kevin Gilroy, Senior Manager of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV), speaking on behalf of Ms. Sharon Capeling-Alakija, Executive Coordinator United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
• Guest speakers session - Wednesday the 17^th of July
  • HE Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO)
  • Prof. Alfredo Sfeir-Younis, Special Representative of the World Bank to the United Nations
  • Mr. Jean Fabre, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Guest speakers session - Thursday the 18^th of July
  • HE Ms. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • HE Mr. Vladimir Petrovsky, former Director-General of the UN in Geneva and President of the Disarmament Conference
  • Mr. Yoshiyuki Takagi, President of Earth Network Village
• Closing Ceremony - Friday the 19^th of July
  • Mr. Manuel Tornare, Administrative Councillor of the City of Geneva and former Mayor.

Sessions

• Sessions in chronological order
• Sessions by type
• Sessions by main topic
• Speakers and moderators
• Speakers’ organizations
• Social and Cultural Activities
• Presenter's documents
• About the summaries

News & media

• Online News
• Press Releases
• Media coverage

Organization

• Steering committee and Regional Coordinators
• Secretariat and coordination
• Organizing team
• Volunteers
• Editorial team and credits
• Contact