16 July 2010
International expert group confirms Tobin Tax feasibility and recommends its implementation
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On July 16th a group of experts drawn from the academia1 and the financial sector2 have confirmed the feasibility of taxing financial transactions, with a view to financing international commitments made to developing countries. The experts handed a detailed feasibility study to a group of 12 governments, who had commissioned the report in November 2009. These governments - Germany, the UK, Japan, France, Belgium, Norway, Senegal, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Korea and Chile - are part of the International Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development, comprised of 55 countries, as well as international and civil society organizations. The UBUNTU Forum is member of the Leading Group since 2006.
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 12 July 2010 - Last July 2nd the United Nations, in an historical decision, adopted the resolution GA/10959 of the General Assembly, by which a new body for the empowerment of women and gender equality is created. This new body (UN Women) strengthens and merges the prior four organisms in order to give coherence to all gender issues.
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21 June 2010
In memoriam: José Saramago
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The UBUNTU Forum wishes to express its deep sadness due to Jose Saramago's death. Prestigious writer, Nobel Prize Laureate, a deeply committed person, he has honored us with his support and collaboration. We send our support to the family and friends of this genius of the literature. |
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17 May 2010
An imperative and fair need
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17 March 2010
Highlight: Robin Hood Tax Campaign
The "Robin Hood Tax Campaign" has made this video to show that the time to tax speculative banking transactions is right. Watch it! For further information on the Campaign, check its website: http://robinhoodtax.org.uk/
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30 October 2009
Disarmament, at last
Our conviction that the time has come for an in-depth Reform of the System of International Institutions, so long demanded by many world forums, to begin to lay the foundation for a world democratic governance which, among many other things, would prevent the world having to experience another situation like this one. In any case, the ongoing world regionalisation processes should be considered amongst the new principles upon which the system must be refounded.
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27 January - 1 February 2009
World Social Forum Bélem 2009
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10 December 2008
60th anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On this 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we, the undersigned, wish to emphasise that all Human Rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent, in full accordance with the Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights made in Vienna...
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20 November 2008
Currency Transaction Tax for Financing for Development Campaign
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20 November 2008
MONTERREY+6 SERIES: Following up the Doha process
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12 November 2008
Regarding the proposed International Meetings on the finantial crisis
Our conviction that the time has come for an in-depth Reform of the System of International Institutions, so long demanded by many world forums, to begin to lay the foundation for a world democratic governance which, among many other things, would prevent the world having to experience another situation like this one. In any case, the ongoing world regionalisation processes should be considered amongst the new principles upon which the system must be refounded.
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Read also the think piece "New Capitalism?" by Federico Mayor Zaragoza
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24 September 2008
Let us create a Currency Transaction Tax for Financing Development (CTT for FfD)
We propose that the outcomes of the Doha meeting should include the creation of a Global Tax on Currency Transactions (CTT for FfD) as an additional, predictable, stable and sustainable source of Financing for Development, the funds from it being channelled into multilateral funds run by the United Nations for use, initially, in achieving the MDGs by 2015.
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24 September 2008
Take part in the Campaign Week (17-24 October 2008)
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5 September 2008
3rd High Level Forum - Accra 2008
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30 May 2008
The worldwide food crisis makes establishing a system of global democratic governance all the more urgent
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On the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we the undersigned wish to express our deep concern and to voice our most forceful protest at having reached this long foreseen and extremely grave situation in such a critical affair as feeding the world's inhabitants. This situation clearly exposes the failure of our present economic system in financial, environmental, cultural and moral terms, the rules of the market having replaced the rule of universal values, and it exposes the condition of vulnerability of our International Organisations, brought about by the absence of support from the most powerful countries.
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4 March 2008
60th anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On this 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we, the undersigned, wish to emphasise that all Human Rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent, in full accordance with the Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights made in Vienna...
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2 & 3 December 2007
2nd Seminar on Future Scenarios for the Reform of the System of International Institutions
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17 September 2007
LET US MAKE THE UNITED NATIONS THE CENTRAL INSTRUMENT IN DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNANCE
On 18 September this year, the sixty-second annual session of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be opened under an umbrella slogan proposed by the Secretary General: "Revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly". A necessary and worthwhile aim.
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18 May 2007
Times of crisis for international institutions?
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12 February 2007
OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW UN SECRETARY GENERAL: MR. BAN KI-MOON
We the signatories have over the last seven years, at the initiative of UBUNTU — World Forum of Civil Society Networks, issued a number of communiqués to world public opinion detailing various common issues, important among them the fact that "the democratisation, strengthening and primacy of the UN in international politics are essential in order to make a better world possible".
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July 2006
Virtual launch of the 2006-2009 period of the "World Campaign" |
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Updated UBUNTU Website
You are looking at the updated website of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU. From the first steps and inaugural meetings in 2000 and 2001, a great deal has happened, and our website - for the most part the result of the daily activities of these nearly five years of intense work on this project - inevitably needed this improvement. Read more...
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