globalization

Annan urges greater focus on good governance at UN-backed meeting in Morocco

11 December 2002
To make progress in building a better world, the international community will need to pay much more attention to democracy, public administration and sound systems of governance, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message to the opening of a high-level meeting in Morocco seeking to improve the public sector.

UN-backed meeting in Morocco to focus on modernizing governments

4 December 2002
Making governments more responsive to citizens and the private sector, modernizing their operations and reconciling the values of local societies with the sweeping culture of globalization will be high on the agenda of a United Nations-supported meeting next week in Marrakech, Morocco.
Louise Fréchette

In Finland, Fréchette urges States to define interests within global framework

3 December 2002
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Fréchette, today urged participants at a meeting in Finland on partnerships to view their concerns from a global perspective.
Kofi Annan

Annan calls for 'globalization of community' to meet present and future challenge

2 October 2002
Urging efforts to make worldwide integration an inclusive force, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for a "globalization of community."
UN Secretary-General

UN needed more than ever in today’s globalized world, Annan says in Geneva

7 June 2002
While globalization has changed the challenges facing the United Nations, in today's integrated world, the UN is needed now more than ever, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today, in Geneva, where he was awarded an honorary degree from the institute at which he studied nearly 40 years ago.

Links between globalization, human development stressed in new UN report on South Asia

28 March 2002
Despite the promises of globalization, about half a billion people in South Asia experienced a decline in their incomes during the '90s, compared to only a small minority of the educated urban population that benefited from the region's economic growth, according to a new United Nations report on development in the area.

ILO panel looks at ways to expand benefits of globalization

25 March 2002
Meeting just days after the conclusion of a landmark United Nations conference in Mexico that reached important decisions on fighting poverty, officials from around the world gathered in Geneva today to seek ways of making sure that the benefits of globalization are shared equally in all parts of the planet.

UN labour agency convenes expert panel on reducing globalization’s inequities

22 March 2002
Against a backdrop of heightened concern over the link between international security and economic development, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) today announced plans to host a meeting on combating the inequities caused by globalization.

Civil society must work with government, business to solve world's problems - Annan

4 February 2002
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today encouraged a conference of civil society groups meeting in Brazil to work with, rather than to confront, governments and businesses in finding solutions to the world's problems.