World Conferences & Declarations
- The role of International Conferences
- Human Rights
- Peace & Disarmament
- Justice & International Law
- Health, Population & Food
- Youth, Women & Seniors
- Education, culture & religions
- Environment & Climate
- Economy & Development
- Civil Society & Globalization
The role of International Conferences
International Conferences help improving the work of the United Nations and its specialized agencies
In conjounction with the work done in the institutional framework, World Conferences have a significant impact on the work of the UN. World conferences are an instrument used by the member countries of the UN and its specialized agencies in association with members of the civil society and the economic sector, in order to identify and give guidance on the action that should be undertaken at the international scale on many different topic such as: Education, Environment and Sustainable Development, Women’s and Child’s Rights, Habitat etc. Those conferences constitute an international platform of cooperation that consistently helps improving the work done within the institutional process by all the “stake-holders”. Those conferences take the form of an official meeting during which resolutions and a plan of action are adopted on a specific issue. Therefore, those conferences have to be understood as a process that have to be implemented through the time. To ensure the efficiency of the implementation cycle, the plan of action has to be reviewed on a periodic basis, generally 5 years after the first conference.
Human Rights
Peace & Disarmament
The Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World - Cartagena 2009
Review on the Anti-Personnal Mine Ban Convention of Ottawa
Justice & International Law
Health, Population & Food
International Conference on Population and Development official report
Programme of action, Debates, Resolutions
ICPD 15 years later
This booklet is issued in commemoration of the first 15 years of the 20-year Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo
Youth, Women & Seniors
Education, culture & religions
Environment & Climate
1979-2009 30 years of World Conferences on Climate Change
1- Conference on the Human Environment - Stockholm 1972
2- Conference on the Human Environment - Nairobi 1982
3- Conference on Environment and Development / "Earth Summit" / "Rio Summit", Rio de Janeiro 1992
4- EarthSummit +5 - New-York 1997
5- Johannesburg Summit (Rio+10) - Johannesburg 2002
6- United Nations Conference On Sustainable Development (Rio+20) - Rio de Janeiro2012
Panorama des Conférences Mondiales sur le changement climatique
The Kyoto Protocol
Economy & Development
International Conference on Population and Development official report
Programme of action, Debates, Resolutions
ICPD 15 years later
This booklet is issued in commemoration of the first 15 years of the 20-year Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo
World Summit on Social Development - Copenhaguen 95 + Geneva 2000
Civil Society & Globalization
NGO and Civil Society participation in the UN
