This side event to the 48th Commission for Social Development, held at the FES office in New York, will look at the current situation of civil society organisations during the economic crisis and ways to strengthen their operating capacity during crises.
The USSF will convene social movements from across the United States and globally in June in Detroit. Organizers are reaching out to young people, people of color, unionists, laid off and unorganized workers, welfare recipients, veterans, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, freedom fighters, collectives, and many others.
A G8 meeting of international development ministers will take place in Halifax, Canada in April.
A plea to the High Level Conference on Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development.
This Conference will be an historic opportunity to present alternative solutions to this systemic crisis which are founded on the principles of human rights and environmental sustainability and which truly take into account the needs of workers, small farmers and the poor.
In its first detailed effort to overhaul financial regulations, the Obama administration on Wednesday sought new authority over the complex financial instruments, known as derivatives, that were a major cause of the financial crisis and have gone largely unregulated for decades.
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