Some yawn, some hope, some rage, some despair. The summit goes on
How the real action takes place away from the conference
John Vidal in Johannesburg
Saturday August 31, 2002
The Guardian
Mark Malloch-Brown, head of the United Nations development
programme, gave his first speech to the main UN
Blair urges crackdown on Third World profiteering
Kay Kay, born in Guangzhou in 1992, only sees her hard working
parents for a few minutes a day. Her dream is to emulate her hero
Miss Hong Kong
Mark Townsend in Johannesburg
Sunday September 1, 2002
The Observer
Tony Blair will tomorrow crack
lapse of preparatory talks in Bali at the weekend.
There are less than ten weeks to go until the start of the Johannesburg
World Summit on sustainable development, which is expected to attract
more than 100 world leaders and 60,000 delegates.
But the chances of agreement between rich and poor coun
for a preparatory meeting for
one of the most important international summits for a decade, the Earth
Summit, which will take place in Johannesburg in August this year. This will
be the first major inter-governmental conference dealing with sustainable
development since Rio in 1992.
There is plenty
The latest version of the Chairman's Text for Negotiation is now available at:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/prepcom4docs/chairmanstext2_final_090502.doc
Kimo
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in Belgium and will be
coordinating the trade union activities in South Africa with our affiliates there:
FEDUSA, NACTU and COSATU.
Mr. Chair, we would like Johannesburg to serve as a catalyst for
workers -everywhere- .for them to become personally committed to the implementation
of sustainable
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The Sustainable Development Summit 2002 held in Delhi draws the
world's attention to poverty alleviation as the means to a
sustainable future.
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