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UN gears up to host global forum on government reform in Vienna next year

21 December 2006
The United Nations has opened registration for a conference to be held at its Vienna headquarters next June, the first time the world organization has hosted the event that will bring together national leaders, business executives and civil society representatives to discuss strategies for building trust in government.

Delegates stress global development goals, improved urban planning at UN Forum

23 June 2006
Stressing the need for investment in efforts to reach global development goals as a means to end poverty, one of the key speakers at the United Nations World Urban Forum III called on delegates not to “let to our leaders off the hook," while others highlighted the need for better planning as a means of improving city life in a rapidly urbanizing world.

At UN World Urban Forum, a tale of two cities with common way forward

22 June 2006
It was a tale of two cities – one battered into rubble by war, the other at the cutting edge of technology – as the United Nations World Urban Forum reached the half-way mark of its weeklong session aimed at averting poverty and despair among a global population that is expected to double to 4 billion people in the next 30 years.
Annan addresses World Economic Forum

Annan calls for ‘new mindset’ at UN involving not just governments but people

26 January 2006
Only if the United Nations engages with the world’s peoples as well as their governments can it be useful to humanity in this century, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a plenary session of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, today.

New branding product to help UN-backed Global Fund combat AIDS, TB, malaria

26 January 2006
A portion of revenue from specially branded American Express cards, Gap T-shirts, Giorgio Armani sunglasses and Converse sneakers will soon be contributed to the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, officials announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today.