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NEWSLETTER
OUTREACH 1997
The Voice of the NGO Community at CSD
Countdown to Earth Summit II
Vol. 1 No. 16
WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 1997
CSD 5 SPECIAL EDITION
CSD 5 OPENING DAY
AT A GLANCE
EDITORIAL
COMMENTARY
NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE ROOM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
RIO GRINDS (is back)
The opinions, commentaries and articles printed in OUTREACH are
the sole opinion of the individual authors or organizations,
unless otherwise expressed. They are not the official opinions of
the NGO/CSD Steering Committee or of WFUNA.
EDITORIAL...
Five years later, and where are we?
by Esmeralda Brown, Southern Co-Chair
& Michael McCoy, Northern Co-Chair
CSD/NGO Steering Committee
Many of us Major Group and NGO representatives who have been
working on the issues of sustainable development both for Earth
Summit and for the Commission on Sustainable Development since
1990 can clearly see what kind of progress has been made in
Agenda 21 Implementation since 1992.
As an "NGO Community", we can be justly proud of the
implementation of a "democratic, participatory, and transparent"
decision-making precess among NGOs that monitor the annual
sessions of the CSD. The self organized structure of the CSD/NGO
Steering Committee has developed as one way for all regions of
the world to be represented in on-going CSD work, ending a
traditional domination by northern NGOs of most UN/NGO processes.
While the participation of a broad range of NGO representatives
at the annual sessions of the CSD is much better now than it has
been in the past, there remains an urgent need to support the NGO
networks at a national and regional level so that they have the
necessary financial resources to effectively monitor their
governments between the annual CSD sessions.
Many of the government speeches at the CSD Intersessional session
in February-March 1997 indicated the need for "political will"
and a "political commitment" by the governments on the difficult
issues of making sustainable development implementation
impossible; such as financing, environment and trade issues in
the WTO, indigenous peoples participation, and the lack of strong
targets and timetables for CO2 reductions by the year 2002, among
others.
At this moment of CSD Review, we see that it is only strong
national and regional CSD/NGO networks of organizations of civil
society that will be in a position to develop the necessary
political pressure from citizens on the governments, "to do the
right thing" regarding Agenda 21 implementation.
Supporting the work of national and regional CSD/NGO networks
will be one of the highest priorities of the CSD/NGO Steering
Committee over the next several years.
What of the Governments progress?
Governments, both North and South, have not shown either a great
deal of political courage, innovation, remarkable vision, or
creative, long term thinking in their proposals for the next five
years of work for the CSD. It as if the spirit and urgency they
showed rhetorically at Rio has lost a great deal of steam when it
has come to the much more difficult and much less romantic work
required in the actual implementation of specific policies for
achieving sustainable development.
The challenge to the NGO representatives here at CSD5 is to do
what NGOs have always done best; push the governments to do more
than they ever planned to, and to encourage them to take
seriously the commitments they made to their citizens: in local
communities, in cities and rural areas, to securing the survival
of the natural environment, and the commitment to present and
future generations. We must remind governments that like the NGOs
and Major Groups that are here, they will also be held
accountable in the future for either their visionary and
courageous actions in realizing the goals of Agenda 21 or for
their cowardly inaction. It is their choice and our choice and
the question is, will we together be able to rise to the
Challenge assuring our sustainable future?
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COMMENTARY...
The session has started: Now, where do we go?
Will CSD 5 churn out a 'business as usual' result, a' worst case'
result or a 'best case' result? The first day of this crucial
session is over. To the astute and mundane political observer,
the opening day probably looks very much like any other opening
day. Is this business as usual, then? A number of the
professional conference participants said that several of the
statements, while not containing any big surprises, did possess a
spirit of optimism and a willingness to show commitment and
action. So far, so good.
The High Level Segment
of CSD 5 has caused some apprehension among NGOs. Would the world
hear a series of ready-made general statements on the merits of
attaining sustainable development at all levels of society? Would
this be accompanied by an enumeration of global environment
problems? And would it be delivered in a pompous style by a high
level minister? What wishful thinking for the global cynic. What
encouragement for the forces opposed to the UN. Gratis fuel to
the conversation we are all too familiar with: 'I told you so, we
don't need no world organization to tell us what we already
know!'
Nothing has happened
to corroborate this apprehension so far. Allow us to say we have
the feeling that the opening statement by Dr. Rumen Gechev,
chairman of the fourth session of the CSD, may have set the
standard for the rest of the contributions. But then again,the
arriving delegations could not know the contents of his
statement. The other presentations were all written in the
various capitals of the world without consulting the UN. Are we
not in fact experiencing a feeling of sustainable consensus in
the world to support global environment?
Revitalizing the momentum of Rio
seems to be one of many points the different delegations will
agree on. Eradication of poverty, changing patterns of
consumption and production, achieving strong and measurable
commitments on doing something about climate change,
understanding and working for sustainable energy development and
developing sustainable freshwater management are but a few of the
other areas the vast majority of speakers seem to agree on. We,
the NGOs, have at this point every reason to believe that
something good will emanate from this session. To quote Bill
Richardson's statement today , "the United States urges ...
decisions, results, solutions and deliverables -- in short ...
action."
We are all for that, as long as this moves us toward a
sustainable world.
...jgs
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NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE ROOM...
NGO Interventions During Day One of the High-Level Segment, 8
April 1997
Statement by Martin Khor, Director
Third World Network
At the Rio Summit, the world's citizens were assured by our
political leaders that at last some serious action would begin to
tackle the serious problems of development and environment and
bring us back from the brink of crisis and catastrophe.
And the action would be inspired by global partnership to
sustainable development, where the rich and the rich countries
would change their unsustainable policies and practices and help
the poor and the poor countries through increased aid and better
access technology.
Five years later the world's citizens are extremely disappointed
and indeed we are alarmed at what has happened. Environment
problems are worse than ever. The spirit of Rio seems to have
vanished. Aid has fallen. Financial resources continue to be
sucked out from the poor countries through debt servicing and low
and declining terms of trade. The rich countries seem to be
advocating a fallacious position that private investment can
substitute for aid to the poor when everyone knows that private
investments move towards profit-maximization (and not
sustainability), that most of the capital flows to the South are
short term, speculative and that FDI mainly goes to only a dozen
countries. The poor countries need the right kind of aid, and
they need debt relief and better terms of trade more than ever,
so that they can build their own domestic capacity. Only then
will investments flow, and not before. It is simply fraudulent to
wave private investment flows to the poor as a panacea and as an
excuse not to fulfill the obligations of Rio.
Development and the principle of and right to development seems
to be challenged today by some Northern governments, and there is
even a real danger now that the environment will be used as a
reason to stop the legitimate right of developing countries to
enjoy development. By no means have the four components of
sustainable development - economic and social development,
environmental protection and equity among and within nations -
been accepted as the old debates begin again.
The environment has dropped many notches down the global and the
national agendas.
The major reason is that in the five years after Rio, the process
of globalization linked to liberalization has gained so much
force that it has undermined and is undermining the sustainable
development agenda. Commerce and the perceived need to remain
competitive in a globalizing market, and to pamper and cater to
the demands of companies and the rich, have become the top
priority of governments in the North and some in the South. The
environment, welfare of the poor, global partnership, have all
been dislodged and sacrificed in this wave of free-market mania.
The most glaring weakness at Rio was the failure to include the
regulation of business, financial institutions and TNCs in Agenda
21 and the other decisions. These institutions, that are
responsible for most of the world's resource extraction,
production, pollution and generation of consumer culture.
UNCED and CSD have failed to create international mechanisms to
monitor and regulate these companies. Instead their power have
spread much more. In particular, the Uruguay Round agreements and
the establishment of the WTO have institutionalized
globalization. Through its strong enforcement system the WTO and
its legally-binding rules threatens to over-ride all other
declarations, action plans and paradigms, whether they be Rio,
Copenhagen or Beijing.
The globalization process, enforced especially through the rules
of WTO, rewards the strong and ruthless and punishes the weak and
poor. In fact it defines the criteria for success and failure,
for survival and collapse. Its paradigm places profits and greed
above all else, and its unregulated operation will continue to
downgrade development, social and environmental concerns at both
national and international levels.
It is the antithesis to sustainable development and to global
partnership.
The CSD needs to address this crisis of the battle of paradigms
between unregulated globalization driven by individual self-
interest and corporate greed, versus global partnership between
rich and poor towards sustainable development. We need political
will and moral courage, we need moral will and political courage,
among our governments, both North and South.
The kind of globalization we have is not sustainable, neither is
it inevitable or uncontrollable. It has to be stared in the eye,
and regulated, channeled, directed towards sustainability goals.
Otherwise all the words we speak in the next few weeks and months
will be marginal, will be only a kind of play, unless we are able
to face up to the real challenge of this globalization process.
The CSD must make a decision to reassert the primacy of global
partnership, to reassert the right of the poor to develop, the
duty of the rich to curb their lifestyles and to help the poor,
and the common but differentiated responsibilities to save Earth.
The CSD must set up a mechanism, such as a sub-commission or a
high-powered working group, to examine and take decisions on
globalization and how it should be channeled towards
sustainability, and this should be a cross-sectoral issue to be
discussed each year in the future.
The legally-binding rules of the WTO should be reviewed to assess
their contribution or otherwise to sustainability goals. This can
be done through the in-built review process of the WTO. But such
an assessment should also be done independently, through the CSD
and other bodies. In particular, the new issues now before the
WTO (investment and competition policy and government
procurement) must be subject to serious study for their impacts.
In particular, the moves by Northern governments to introduce a
multilateral investment agreement through both the OECD and the
WTO are likely to have very adverse impacts on both development
and environment and if the MIA or MAI is passed it will over-ride
many aspects of Agenda 21 and render impotent many of the issues
and actions we will discuss in the next few weeks. The CSD cannot
ignore what is happening in the WTO, nor confine its attention
only to the "trade and environment" spectrum. We have to make the
WTO more and more transparent to the world, and more accountable
to sustainable development. The narrow paradigm of gaining more
and more "market access" for the big companies, especially to the
markets of the developing countries, must be modified and
tempered by the larger paradigm of sustainable development.
The CSD and the Special Session of the General Assembly must
tackle these larger issues of globalization, otherwise we will be
overwhelmed, and there will be nothing optimistic to talk about
when we convene again five years from now for another review.
If at Rio we were moved by the urgency to save the Earth, all the
more, in fact many times more, do we have the need to eradicate
poverty, and institute equitable mechanisms to defend the
environment. We urge our political leaders and the officials in
government and the UN to redouble their efforts to re-establish
sustainable development at the top of the agenda. We in the NGO
community, needless to say, will continue to fight for people's
rights and the Earth. There is nothing more important in the
world today that we can do together.
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Statement by Jocelyn Dow,
Vice-President, WEDO
We meet here nearly five years since Rio where we signed on to
Agenda 21, an Agenda of Hope, not Perfection, and to the
Declarations of Rio that were a call to action for those who
wished to develop a path that was more people-centered, gender
fair, and sustainable. We signed on to a collective agreement to
implement a more rational, accountable and sustainable life as
nations and as peoples.
WEDO played its part along with that of hundreds of women's
organizations to ensure that the documents and processes of UNCED
were reflective of all women's realities across class, race,
ethnicity and location. Women fought for our inclusion as half of
humanity. We moved the meager references to women in the early
drafts to a Principle, and an entire chapter on women. We
succeeded in ensuring that women were main streamed in and to the
documents. But there were some failures, one of which was
bringing the role of militarism as a major negative force in the
discourse of Rio. Today, sadly, we have to acknowledge that some
of these old battles are still with us. In this very building
there are over a hundred NGOs, many of whom are women, who are
excluded from the Non-Proliferation Treaty discussions. Nuclear
power and energy are twin sides of the same coin. Exclusion is
its cutting edge. The issue of nuclear materials, arms, war,
energy and environmental health are interlinked. The drain of
resources for military activity engaged in by nearly all
governments and the threats tot he well-being of the planet and
women's life is undeniable. Women are organizing the First World
Conference on Breast Cancer in Canada in July where these links
to women's health and the women's cancer crisis will be clearly
demonstrated.
We cannot therefore be complacent on any issue here as we meet
here today. We intend to be part of the reckoning. Women will
raise our voices and continue to direct our energies to ensuring
that we are central to the review of the past five years. We will
continue to strive for no less a right at the Special Session of
the General Assembly than we enjoyed during the formulation of
the Rio commitments.
Today we meet in the season of review, reform and globalization -
a globalization of trade, finance, information and of poverty, a
global poverty that is both old and new. Women are over
represented in the last category and under represented in the
first three. As we collectively review the past five years of
implementation and non-implementation, we will see that women
have honored nay, in fact exceeded the commitments we made at
Rio. Yet, the negotiations at the intersessional of the CSD
failed to recognize and address the critical and vital role and
impact of women in the implementation of Agenda 21. Women have
lit the path to sustainable livelihoods. Women have carried the
torch of solidarity and partnership. And women will bring the
flame of continuity into these discussions to link our
commitments and yours from Rio to Beijing. We promise to hold you
feet to the fire.
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Statement on behalf of the Youth Caucus
by César Marchesino, Latin American Youth Network for Sustainable
Development
The statement as delivered by Mr. César Marchesino on 8 April
varies from the text below, dated 7 April, on which his remarks
were based.
We call for: Governments to implement Earth Summit Commitments by
ensuring the involvement of youth in all levels of decision
making; recognition of youth NGO initiatives towards social
justice, economic equity, micro-enterprise development and eco-
sustainability; establishment of mechanisms and increased funding
for North-South grassroots youth partnerships; governments to
ensure that youth have increased access to information and
documentation; youth to be allowed to initiate and develop their
own ways of working towards sustainable development.
Implementation objective: Increased support on all levels for
awareness, skill-sharing and empowerment of youth as present and
future leaders and agents of change.
Implementation activities: The Special Session must support and
be open to new and innovative ways of actively involving youth
NGOs in the Sustainable Development process and debate.
Therefore, we strongly urge the establishment of a system to
ensure regular, democratic and balanced representation of young
people at the CSD. Each National Delegation should include a NGO
Youth Representative to facilitate the exchange of information to
and from youth. The host country should ensure that the widest
possible representation of youth NGOs, in particular Southern
youth NGOs, in the process.
If continued youth participation in the implementation of Agenda
21 is to be assured, firm governmental financial commitments must
be made and adhered to. Young people should be partners in the
development of educational curricula around all aspects of
sustainable development. Young people should be encouraged to
promote Agenda 21 through peer education.
Further youth participation in the Agenda 21 process can be
achieved through open dialogue sessions between youth and
government at all levels. At a Local Agenda 21 level, youth
should be enabled to take an active role in the auditing
processes.
Rationale: Too few governments have taken strong steps to work
with youth in recent years and achieving good inter-generational
partnership. More remains to be done, and governments must find
financial mechanisms to support youth involvement and empowerment
in all regions.
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two.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DAILY MEETINGS:
(unless otherwise announced)
8:30-9:15 a.m., Room D, Women's Caucus
8:30-9:00 a.m., Church Center, Youth Caucus
9:15-10:00 a.m., Room D, NGO Strategy Session
6:00 p.m., Vienna Caf‚, Process Sub-Committee
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PANEL DISCUSSION:
"GLOBALIZATION: A THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?
CRITICAL ISSUES FOR CSD V"
When: Wednesday, 9 April
Time: 1:15-2:45 p.m.
Where: Conference Room D
Speakers include:
Martin Khor, Third World Network
Yash Tandon, Int'l South Group Network
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Indigenous Peoples' International Centre
for Policy Research
Organized by the Third World Network
Do we need a Freshwater Convention?
When: Wednesday, 9 April
Where: Conf. Room D
Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Derek Osborn, Co-Chair of CSD Intersessional
Pierre Najlis, UN DPCSD Task Manager for Freshwater
Jim Lamb, Severn Trent Water
Gunilla Bjorklund, Executive Secretary CFWA Stockholm
Environment Institute
Chair: Felix Dodds, UNED-UK
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IAEA will give two presentations on Wednesday, 9 April in the Dag
Hammarskjöld Auditorium:
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Security in the Nuclear Field and Verification
2:00 -5:00 p.m.
Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Energy
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NGO REGISTRATION
Registration of NGOs will take place at a Registration Desk
located in the Public Lobby of the General Assembly Building
(enter through the Visitor's Entrance located on 1st Avenue and
45th Street). For security purposes, all representatives are
requested to bring a photo ID (i.e. passport or drivers license),
as well as a copy of their letter of accreditation from their
organization. Passes will not be available for persons whose
names have not been communicated in advance.
Schedule for registration:
Wednesday, 9 April
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Monday, 14 April
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, 15 April
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
NOTE: At all other times, please call the NGO Section at (212)
963-4843 or (212) 963-4846 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for
information on how to secure your passes.
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A workshop on Changing Consumption Patterns in Human Settlements
is being organized by UNCHS and UNDPCSD on Friday, 11 April 1997
from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Dag Hammarskj”ld Auditorium.
The keynote speech will be given by David Satterthwaite, IIED.
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REQUESTS FOR MEETING SPACE
8-25 April
IN THE UNITED NATIONS BUILDING...
Contact:
Ms. Zehra Aydin, Major Groups Focal Point
2 UN Plaza, 22nd Floor
tel.: (212) 963-8811
fax: (212) 963-1267
Procedure:
1) Fax your request to the above number before 4:00 p.m. the day
prior to the requested date.
2) Costs for the rooms vary, depending on type of room and
service needed, i.e. sound (cost runs $60.00 per hour - if your
meeting runs over even by 5 or 10 minutes, be prepared to pay for
the full second hour).
3) Ensure that contact person and contact number are presented
clearly in your fax.
NOTE: Space is extremely limited due to an increased level of
participants and decreased allocation of space.
AT THE CHURCH CENTER, 777 UN PLAZA...
Contact:
Ms. Sharrye Moore (not Ms. Linda Arnold as indicated in the
weekend edition of OUTREACH)
tel.: (212) 682-3633
Procedure:
1) Pick up forms to reserve space at the Church Center on the 2nd
Floor of 777 UN Plaza (corner of 44th Street & 1st Ave.)
2) Fill out the form and hand it in to Ms. Linda Arnold before
4:00 p.m. prior to the requested meeting date.
3) FOR ALL BOOKINGS AT THE CHURCH CENTER AFTER 6:00 P.M., A
$60.00 SECURITY CHARGE WILL APPLY.
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Important:
As of 8 April, daily NGO strategy sessions will be held every
morning from 9:15-10:30 a.m. in conference room D. At all other
times, NGO activity will be based in Conference Room E.
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The HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT CAUCUS will be held from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
in Conference Room E on the following dates:
Thursday, 10 April* Monday, 14 April Tuesday, 15 April
Wednesday, 23 April Thursday, 24 April
* The Health & Environment Caucus along with the Women and
Environment Caucus will convene a panel discussion on
"Strengthening Linkages between Women, Environment & Sustainable
Development." Panelists will include Ms. Marta Duenas, Acting
Director of INSTRAW and H.E. Amb. Razali Ismail (invited).
Consult CSD Today for exact time.
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UNEP and the Committee for Religious NGOs will hold a symposium
on "Our Environmental Future: Ethical and Spiritual Perspectives"
on Thursday, 10 April from 1:15-2:45 p.m. in Conference Room 1.
Panelists include:
Gillian Martin Sorensen, Assistant Secretary- General
H.E. Daudi N Mwakawago, Chair of the G-77 and Vice-Chair of the
CSD (Tanzania)
Professor Gabriel Moran, Director of Religious Education, NYU
Ms. Lahane'ena'e Gay, President, Pacific Cultural Conservancy
Call (212) 750-2773 for more info.
NGO CONSULTATION ON INCREASING ACCESS TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AND ITS MAIN COMMITTEES AND ALL AREAS OF WORK OF THE UN
WHEN: Wednesday., 30 April
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: UN Headquarters
(room to be announced)
Representatives of NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC and
those Associated with DPI are invited to participate in a day of
discussion on specific issues that are likely to be raised at
meetings of the Sub-Group on NGOs of the Open-Ended High-Level
Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System,
which is examining ways to increase NGO participation in the work
of the UN General Assembly, its Main Committees and the UN System
as a whole. All UN Missions are also invited to send
Representatives.
This Consultation is being organized under the auspices of the
NGO Committee Chairs of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative
Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(CONGO). For further information, call the CONGO office in NY at
(212) 986-8557.
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PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY:
LOCAL INITIATIVES FOR CITIES & TOWNS
From 1-5 June 1997, an international conference will be held in
New Castle, Australia to examine and encourage environmental
awareness in local communities. The outcome of the conference
will be presented to UNGASS in June. For more information,
contact the Conference Managers, Capital Conferences Party Ltd.
in Australia at: tel.: 612 9252 3388; fax: 612 9241 5282; email:
capcon@ozemail.com.au
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RIO GRINDS...
"Now treading the fine line between simple bad taste and outright
liable"
Who was that Canadienne who works for an international NGO active
in forests who suddenly left the CSDI and was then seen in the
company of His Royal Highness?
Rumor has it that a large green NGO has been breeding 196,000
tadpoles on UN grounds who will all become frogs at 10 a.m. on 23
June.
Following the success of recent UN privatization highlighted by
this column, we have just heard about a new round of proposals to
be laid on the table this week. Group X Securities have put in a
bid for the UN Security contract and UN Catering has been bought
by McDonald's. Vienna Caf‚ is to become a fast food burger joint.
After opening the Rio Grinds column to input from several
contributors, a strong bid for a new name for this column has
come in. It is "Coffee Anon."
As our contribution to the evolution of the CSD/NGO Steering
Committee into a workable NGO co-ordinating network, Outreach and
the "Coffee Anon" column announce the start of a 'Rename the
CSD/NGO Steering Committee' Contest. Suggestions must be received
by 9:58 a.m. on Friday, 11 April. The top 10 best suggestions
will be printed and the winner will have the pleasure to treat
the whole Steering Committee to an all expenses paid trip to the
Rio Sheraton Hotel.
Anyone for "Strong Coffee?"
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Caf‚.
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CSD 5 Mantra:
(Repeat)...Urgent Situation; Far too Little Being Done; Bold
Actions Needed; Measurable Steps Required; (Repeat) ....
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OUTREACH '97
CSD NGO Steering Committee
World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
Editors
Jan-Gustav Strandenaes
Sharon McHale
Contributing journalist
Michael Strauss
OUTREACH 1997
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