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Issue 14: February 2002
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EU-UNU Global Forum discusses
United Nations University (UNU) and the Delegation of the European Commission in Japan co-hosted the the second annual EU-UNU Tokyo Global Forum January 24-25. The topic of this year’s conference was Governance Across Borders: National, Regional and Global. World standards for good
governance are democracy, tolerance, and pluralism, ensuring full and fair
participation of citizens in governmental decision-making and full
protection of human and minority rights. However, there
is growing criticism that more and more of the decisions affecting our
lives are being moved out of the national realm into organisations that do
not appear to meet the same standards of transparency, accountability and
fair representation. These international forms of governance and related issues were discussed at the conference by panels of international speakers, including Gareth Evans (president, International Crisis Group), Keizo Takemi (Member of the Japanese Diet), Richard Goldstone (Judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa) and Emma Bonino (member of the European Parliament). The keynote address was delivered by Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Regional Policy and Inter-governmental Conference. |
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