UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development

Spearheaded by the current President of the UN General
Assembly Miguel D´Escoto Brockmann, the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development will take place from June 24-26, 2009. This first multilateral forum presents 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. Member organisations of Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS) including TNI are organizing a number of Forums both inside and outside the UN.

These Forums will analyse the connection between the corporate free trade regime and the crisis; review the alternative proposals being generated by global social movements, progressive governments in Latin America, and the UN itself and address the challenge of how to turn these proposals into a reality that can transform the market-based, unjust and unsustainable world financial architecture into one that can lay the framework for a people-centered economy.

OWINFS Co-sponsored Events:

Inside the UN:
People's rights not corporate profits: close International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), challenge free trade agreements and build just economic and social governance
Thursday, 25 June 25, from 13:15 - 14:45 pm
VENUE: ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters

Special guests:
- H.E. Mr. Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
- H.E. Mr. Rafael Correa Delgado, President of the Republic of Ecuador.
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen, United States
- Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute and Our World is Not for Sale network, Canada (moderator)

Outside the UN:
Towards a people-centered economy: Alternative Responses to the Crisis
Tuesday, June 23rd: from 19:30
VENUE: Brecht Forum - 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets) New York City

Panellists:
- Pedro Paez, Ex-Minister of Economic Coordination, Ecuador and member of Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on
Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
- Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies
- Arjun Karki, LDC Watch
- Steve Suppan, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy and Our World is Not for Sale Network
- Diana Aguiar, International Gender and Trade Network
- Larry Holmes, Bail Out the People Movement
- Jana Silverman, Social Watch (moderator)

Sponsoring organizations: Gloves Off Collective, Social Watch, Transnational Insitute, Enlazando Alternativas, Jubilee South, Our World is Not for Sale Network, LDC Watch

OWINFS “Talking Points”