The United Nations University will host a seminar on " Global Finance and Civil Society after Prague: issues, challenges, implications for the United Nations."   The meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 3 from 3:00 -6:00 pm in the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium of the United Nations.

The purpose of the seminar is to disseminate and discuss the findings of a United Nations University study assessing the repercussions of civil society engagement with global finance to date. The study also suggests practical steps to maximize the benefits and minimize the shortcomings of civil society involvement in global finance.

Speakers include the coordinators of the project, Albercht Schnabel, United Nations University and Jan Aart Scholte, Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick; Gemma Adaba, International Confederaton of Free Trade Unions; Alison Van Rooy, North South Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Nodari Simonia, director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow, Russia; Barry Herman, DESA, United Nations and Inge Kaul, United Nations Development Program.

If you do not have a UN grounds pass to access the UN Secretariat building, please be sure to indicate so in the section provided on the online registration form and be at the UN visitor's (45th and 1st Ave) entrance by 2:30pm on April 3, 2001 to be escorted to the venue.

Tuesday, 3 April 2001, 3:00-6:00 pm
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium,
United Nations Headquarters

Introduction

Jacques Fomerand, Director, UNU, NY

            Civil Society and the Financing for Development Initiative at the United Nations
            Barry Herman, DESA, United Nations Secretariat