Issue number 64 June 1998
Contents and Introduction
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In this issue
THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENTS (MAI)
NGO FORUM ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Henry Vira, Coordinator, PIANGO Secretariat, PO Box 9127, Nadi Airport Post Office, Nadi, FIJI.
GIVING VOICE TO YOUR HEART
Alex Formuzis, Independent Sector, 1828 L St. NW, Ste 1200, Washington DC 20036, USA
A STUDENT'S TALK ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Alison Cole, 19 Frederick St., Palmerston North, NEW ZEALAND.
1998 – THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE OCEAN
Nicole Guillemain-Goupi, Int'l Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, F-75700 Paris, FRANCE.
GREEN LIGHT FOR DEEP SEABED EXPLORATIONS
UN Division for Ocean Affairs & the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.
CALL FOR A SAFER WORLD http://www.oneworld.org/earthaction/
OLOF PALME PRIZE
Olof Palmes Minnesfond, Box 3221, S-103 64 Stockholm, SWEDEN.
KIM PHUC – UNESCO GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE
UNESCO News, 2 UN Plaza, Room 900, New York, NY 10017, USA
TIME FOR A PEASANTS' REVOLT
Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 6042 S. Kimbark Ave, Chicago IL 60637, USA.
TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES 2000
42-46 Bethel St., Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1NR, UK.
with:
Quote from Dwight Eisenhower's speech: "CROSS OF IRON"
COLLABORATION OF THE UNESCO CHAIR WITH THE GREEK ARMED FORCES
PO Box 10417, 541 10 Thessaloniki, GREECE.
ONE DAY IN PEACE, lst JANUARY, 2000
Today's emphasis on globalisation brings with it the necessity for public scrutiny of certain issues, concepts and areas within our present societal system so that they can be re-assessed and re-defined before being re-integrated into a new world order.
As the world market opens up to ever freer flowing financial transactions and the power of governments of independent states diminishes, while simultaneously the influence of multinational corporations rises to alarming proportions, we shall surely have to ask ourselves: what will sovereignty come to mean in a future world community.
So when the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, proposed that the UN General Assembly in the Year 2000 be a Millennium General Assembly, to be accompanied by a companion Millennium People's Assembly and subsequently welcomed civil society's ideas and thoughts in this regard, OPTU made the suggestion that both the General Assembly and the People's Assembly in the Year 2000 include on their agenda that "the new role and concept of Sovereignty within the emerging realisation of a Global Neighbourhood" be discussed.
The conflicts within nations, splitting their societies asunder; the rising number of refugees crossing national borders in search of a community that will honour their right to a habitat; the global impact of local disasters; the increasing lack of public support of and confidence in today's leadership – all of this is challenging the validity and worth of sovereignty as we have come to know it. Through losing the respect and support of us people, traditional sovereignty can no longer hold the position of supreme authority with regard to law and order.
The inevitable question therefore seems to be: what will the future sovereignty be; the sovereignty to which we all – governments, multi-nationals, the world of finance, leaders and peoples alike – can willingly give our allegiance?
"The care of the New World must not be left to another when it ought to be realized by every one of us"
"HEART" 1932.
The Great Invocation in Greek
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