Peoples’ Voices on the International Economic Crisis
Peoples’ Voices on the International Economic Crisis
. Jana Silverman, Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch, an NGO network monitoring poverty eradication & gender equality (headquartered in Montevideo , Uruguay )
. Gemma Adaba, Representative, UN, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), New York
. Milena Kadieva, Legal Advisor & Project Coordinator, Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, Plavdiv , Bulgaria . Beverly Keene, Latin American Coordinator, Jubilee South Network, Buenos Aires , Argentina
. Leo Atakpu, Deputy Director, African Network on Economic and Environmental Justice (based in Benin City , Nigeria )
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Responses to the current global economic crisis have been inadequate and fail to fully address the myriad of related global crises, such as food security and climate change. An international coalition of ‘working’ people directly impacted by these crises, and civil society organizations, met in a public forum Saturday to deliver this message to world leaders in advance of this week’s UN Conference on the economic crisis being organized by Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the current President of the UN General Assembly (and a Sandinista liberation theology priest)
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