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Civil Society Background Document and Key Recommendations

Background Document: Arabic English French

Key Recommendations: Arabic English French

Background information

Information resources

• Official Website for the Conference
• NGLS Bulletins 1 2 3 4 5 6

Official UN documents

• Final Outcome Document adopted at the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development 
• The Preliminary Draft of the Full Report of the Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
• Report of the Secretary-General on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development

Press releases and press conferences

• General Assembly President Press conference on Outcome of Conference on World Financial, Economic Crisis (26 June 09)
• Wide-Ranging Proposals to Mitigate World Financial Crisis Adopted by Consensus at United Nations Conference in New York (26 June 09)

 Civil society engagement

Key documents

• Statement of the Doha NGO Group on Financing for Development (DNG) to the Special High-level Meeting of the ECOSOC wih the BWIs, the WTO and the UNCTAD

Special initiatives

10 days of action: Countdown to Commitments

CS critiques  and analysis

• John Foster-OPED of June 2009 in the Ottawa Citizen
• ITUC Key Recommendations [English/Spanish]
• Presentation by Roberto Bissio, Social Watch at Roundtable 1 (video)
• Presentation by Beverly Keene, Jubilee South at Roundtable 1
• Presentation by Mirjana Dokmanovic, WIDE at Roundtable 1
• Presentation by CIVICUS at Roundtable 4
• Presentation by the Gigi Francisco of the Women's Working Group on FfD

10 days of action: Countdown to Commitments

• 26 June: Civil Society Scorecard-Governments Fail the Test/ Representatives Voices Unhappiness with Proposed Solutions for Economic Crisis at United Nations
• 25 June: Bail out the workers, not the banks
• 24 June: UN Conference Places Responsibility of Crisis on Shoulders of Rich Countries
• 23 June: Major Surgery, not Cosmetic Facelift, Must be at Center of UN Conference on Economic Crisis
• 22 June:Take action to protect migrant workers during the crisis
• 21 June: Take action on gender equality and women’s rights
• 20 June: Take action to highlight the voices of the people most affected by the crisis
• 19 June: Take action on the Millennium Development Goals
• 18 June: Take action on the right to quality public education
• 17 June: Take action on climate change
• 16 June: Take action on the Day of the African Child

G20 London Summit, April 2009

Outcome document

• G20Communique

Civil society statement

• The Paris Declaration on the Global Financial Crises adopted by the EU NGO meeting of 10 to 11 January 2009. [English/French/Spanish]

   

Civil society critiques and analysis

• EURODAD
• CIDSE
• Third World Network
• ITUC
• Center of Concern
• Oxfam
• ITUC/TUAC/Global Unions
• InterAction
• ATD Fourth World

• Global Financial Crisis Unions' Watch
• ILO Global Job Crisis Observatory